Let’s get this out of the way first: Yes, it’s just like a Charlie Kaufman premise, but it’s not a…
Slumdog Millionaire, the documentary. Deservedly a Sundance prizewinner, Havana Marking’s film follows the American Idol knockoff produced in Kabul for…
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s alarming Tony Manero—set in the dark days of the Pinochet regime and named not for its…
The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast…
At the same moment that directors like Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong were earning festival kudos and critical acclaim for…
Broke-ass hustler Nikki (Ashton Kutcher, who also produced) may not have a home or a car, but he does possess…
A dapper (mostly) contemporary costume drama, The Time Traveler’s Wife is abundantly interior-decorated in vintage rococo. Eric Bana, to his…
Other than Rose Byrne’s on-screen radiance and a soothingly warm palette lit by cinematographer Seamus Tierney, there’s not much to…
Finally there’s a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger—even if it arrives under a more potable name. Carnal…
This gutter-punk cult movie about an unlikely bar band’s rise and fall might’ve been scripted during a drunken Russian-roulette session…
It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There’s half a great…
“I was buying a new Porsche every year,” says a rueful Ric O’Barry, who as a young man was instrumental…
The young ladies love Michael Cera. And they giggled along adoringly at SIFF for Charlyne Yi’s half-documentary hybrid. The L.A….
Another eco-bore. Municipal politics in Los Angeles have never been known for transparency, nor have politicians always been accountable to…
Chuck Close calls them the mascots of the art world. Christo and Jeanne-Claude once offered them a drawing in exchange…
We know Kevin Spacey is one depressed psychiatrist because he doesn’t shave and he chain-smokes pot. (What Elliott Gould did…
After canvassing the getting of manly wisdom in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and childbirth in Knocked Up, Judd Apatow brings the…
Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing…
The creative team behind the BBC’s political satire The Thick of It has added a few Yanks to its cast…
If an obscenely privileged person has the good sense to apologize for his whining, does this self-awareness make the pity…
