I’ve never read Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 coming-of-age novel Bless Me, Ultima, the tale of a Hispanic schoolboy in a small…
In the realm of sci-fi-horror-comedy, the duo of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are a hard pair to top. Raimi’s…
“It feels like Nicholas Sparks, until it suddenly doesn’t,” Sparks himself says of his latest novel-into-film project. That’s some understatement.Safe…
The recent success of Warm Bodies proves that there’s still life to be had—even with a zombie protagonist—in the paranormal-romance…
Suppose you’d spent a year of your life documenting fur trappers in Siberia, enduring a brutal, sub-40-degree winter and torrential…
Around 23 minutes into Antonino D’Ambrosio’s punk-rock documentary, viewers finally get a glimpse of The Clash’s Joe Strummer, whose lyrics…
Michael Apted’s subsequent chapters of this famed documentary series, first created for British television in 1964, have ranged far beyond…
In modern Japan, commuters squeeze into impossibly packed trains, and consumer culture fills in the cracks. The confines and conformity…
Who is Pierre Etaix? His filmography is small (five features and a handful of short films, one of which earned…
After a two-decade career that’s brought him from Sundance darling (with sex, lies, and videotape) to Hollywood eminence, Steven Soderbergh…
Following the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755, Portugal’s biggest catastrophe may have been the loss of ill-gotten wealth from its…
On one hand, with fingers left to spare, you can count the number of local authors who’ve had their books…
In a contest between a renowned overactor (Al Pacino) and two equally veteran underactors (Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin), who…
Feature-length animation has become a monopoly for Disney and Pixar, while basically nothing is made for adults. At a typical…
South Korean director Hong Sang-soo has become such a darling on the festival circuit that, thanks to titles like Woman…
This doc is Wagner for Dummies, and I mean that in the best sense: I can’t imagine a more engaging…
The great French actress Isabelle Huppert seems able to withstand any kind of abuse (often at the hands of Michael…
Hollywood generally treats aging as an ennobling process, a time of gauzy reflection or an opportunity to transmit sage wisdom…
History is written by the victors and laws by the occupiers. That’s the way it works in Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s intelligent…
For film geeks, if there’s one thing better than watching the Oscars, it’s bitching about the Oscars—a hallowed ritual now…
