I have been trying to figure out how a movie reportedly costing close to two hundred million dollars has failed to find a paying audience. The reviews have been either glowing or certainly respectful.
The enormously talented Martin Scorsese directed the movie based upon a successful children's book by...
Comments | Posted January 24, 2012 | 01/24/12 05:23 PM ET
The Iron Lady is an interesting example of the limits of movie biography and the manner in which contemporary political and social trends leak into motion picture storytelling.
Starring the incomparable Meryl Streep, whose unique talent allows her to create and mimic the persona of the most challenging of...
Comments | Posted January 10, 2012 | 01/10/12 07:18 AM ET
I have always enjoyed the books of John le Carré and greatly admired the elegant prose, the subtle nuanced plot constructions and robust characterizations of people engaged in conspiratorial endeavors.
He was clearly a master of the narrative of the behind-the-scenes battles between the intelligence bureaucracies of the Soviet...
Comments | Posted February 17, 2012 | 02/17/12 12:49 PM ET