Jim Carrey plays a self-absorbed Debbie Downer named Carl Allen who green-lights every bad decision in an effort to reinvent…
Troy Garity has a rangy, lonesome-stranger body and pouchy eyes. He can boot a cigarette butt to the curb like…
The Rodriguez kids, spread far from their native Chicago, reunite for Xmas under the roof of their voluminous burgher patriarch…
This elegantly constructed if misleadingly titled class lecture, written and delivered by Brown professor of international relations James G. Blight…
So obsessed with mimicry it’s practically a tribute band of a movie, Dark Streets throws copious amounts of film-noir style…
If your ears perk up at the mere mention of a fourth Evil Dead movie, or you tune in to…
I hear America singing and I see… Richard Nixon. Not the man but the muse: Has any president since Lincoln…
Even if you don’t know the name, you’ll recognize Robert Davi’s slightly corroded handsomeness and shiny, bottomless eyes. The ubiquitous…
No surprises here—first the subtitle, then the prior book (and later movie) Alive, and finally the inevitable cannibalism. We all…
For a film “based on a true story”—that of Leonard and Phil Chess’ eponymous record label, featuring the likes of…
The guy holding the “Smile” sign at the Marion Street pedestrian ramp to the ferry terminal? He’s got a name….
The Slumdog Millionaire director on Mumbai before the terror.
You don’t have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With…
After the disappointingly shallow new James Bond movie, maybe a third helping of Frank Martin isn’t a bad thing. The…
Eric (Tom Cavanagh) is a deeply closeted sportscaster and ex–Maple Leaf; Sam (Ben Shenkman) is his patient partner. When Sam’s…
The great American student-government election: Teenagers exposing their fragile egos to public ballot-box rejection and spending a small fortune on…
Gus Van Sant has never been what you’d call a risk-adverse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so…
JCVD wastes little time working itself into a pretzel. The action begins under the credits with Jean-Claude Van Damme working…
Screened at SIFF as Fields of Fuel (now expanded with new material), this documentary about the virtues of biofuel heavily…
Like every other kids’ movie coming off the studio line these days, the charming and well-crafted animated feature Bolt, about…
