The key question about The Men Who Stare at Goats is not whether it is true (though it allegedly is). The key question is whether it will make you la...
That Evening Sun starts out as if it had been plucked from a Sundance time capsule circa the early 1990s: an elderly person raging against the indigni...
This is, by my count, the third version of Dickens' story that Walt Disney Studios has put out. The story, however, was always Dickens', as it is now.
Part of the magic of movies is their ability to take you places you otherwise couldn't - or wouldn't - take yourself. From the fantasy realm of extra...
No, Grant Heslov admits, he's never had a psychic episode himself - no premonitions of the future or flash-forwards. Nor can he engage in what those...
If Christopher McDonald's name isn't familiar, his face must be -- the Internet Movie Database lists almost 150 different credits since he made his film debut in The Hearse in 1980
Some bad movies you slag off gleefully. Others provoke a certain disappointment at their failure, a mourning at the difference between the film's ambition and its execution. Richard Kelly's The Box is such a film.
Uncertainty ultimately doesn't go where you expect it to. It's a fascinating experiment that also happens to be an interesting and highly watchable movie.
It's been more than two years since Sean Penn cast Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild - but Holbrook is still singing his praises. "Sean gave me the most ...
The Messenger, as powerful and restrained a drama as you could wish for, could have used any war as its context and made the same point: that all war ends tragically for too many.
Perhaps Fantastic Mr. Fox will be the film that convinces adults that animation isn't just for kids.
Sixteen years ago, directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee rode a wave of buzz out of the Sundance Film Festival, based on their debut feature, Sutur...
In the United States, we take rock'n'roll radio for granted because Top 40 radio has been around since the 1950s in most parts of the country. But as...
Robert Altman's Nashville has had many imitators over the years: films that take an array of unrelated characters, then have them cross paths in the c...
There seem to be two kinds of documentaries about disadvantaged and troubled kids: the ones that look at the problem and make you feel angry - and the...
For filmmaker Mary Mazzio, it's always been about beating the odds. And as she has shown numerous times in her life, it has less to do with talent tha...
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more stupid out there... I read a story the other day touting a looming deal that would cast Dan Aykroyd as...
Because it's set in 206 A.D., John Woo's Red Cliff does not include a scene of two men pointing guns at each other's heads in a wild moment of mutuall...
Carla Gugino is one of those actors whose fans believe she hasn't gotten the breaks she deserves. She's given terrific performances in small film rol...
There's a tendency to always look askance at any film in which the story focuses on an African-American who is given a helping hand by a white person....
Like a well-crafted novel, Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" takes its time revealing its true intentions. It's an emotional time bomb, one packed w...
It's referred to as "development hell" - that period between when a script is optioned and when it gets a green light - an endless series of notes, me...
Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is pure delight, a backstage story set in a romantic period built around a magically charismatic character. I...
I worry about the fate of The Road, John Hillcoat's film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer-winning novel. It's a moving and u...
Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is like a sigh of relief from a writer-director whose work has been sensitive/gloomy until now. The f...
