Film & TV

Spain's somber, forgotten cinema masterpiece El esp
September 25, 2008 at 12:00 am

Weepy, timeless love stories are what Nicholas Sparks does best, and the screen adaptation of his novel Nights in Rodanthe lives up to the writer's literary stylings.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

Ghost Town follows Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), the quintessential snide, cynical jerk who, after a glitch during a routine colonoscopy, dies for seven minutes.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

Sugar & Spice 2001 I have a confession. I often find myself sucked into ABC Family's weekend movie marathons while channel surfing, and this weekend was no different.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

Just in case someone forgot that he's a bad motherfucka, Samuel L. Jackson's New Years' resolution in 1998 was to "continue to kick ass." In the decade since, he's appeared in the quintessential badass role in basically every movie he could fit into: a fast-action FBI agent in Snakes on a Plane, a no-bullshit man of God in Black Snake Moan.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

Consider the assaultive title just the tip of the big screwed-up iceberg that is Towelhead, Alan Ball's disturbing portrait of a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl's coming-of-age in a Texas suburb during the Gulf War.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

Don’t tell anyone, but National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. I conveniently “forget” to mention it when asked to list my all-time favorites, and no evidence of my love for the historical-fiction-film-slash-action-movie-slash-crime-caper can be found amongst my possessions.
September 11, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.
September 11, 2008 at 7:41 pm

With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.
September 11, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Don't tell anyone, but National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. I conveniently "forget" to mention it when asked to list my all-time favorites, and no evidence of my love for the historical-fiction-film-slash-action-movie-slash-crime-caper can be found amongst my possessions.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

Let's just say that M. Night Shyamalan is to Philadelphia what Martin Scorsese is to New York. work with me here.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

As the spring term comes to a close, the books disappear and the party begins. In the real world, people celebrate with champagne.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

Dear James, I'll never forget the first time I saw you. You were walking on hind legs, striding across the screen as a Mr. Tumnus so good-looking, C.S.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

A few months ago I took on the (ultimately unfortunate) assignment of reviewing Michael Haneke's own remake of his brilliant 1997 commentary, Funny Games.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

As usual, the summer is dumping ground for prick (Iron Man) and chick (Sex and the City) flicks alike.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

5 Stars What if Abraham Lincoln, the Three Stooges, Michael Jackson and Sammy Davis Jr. lived together in a Scottish castle?
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

Were Stanley Kramer alive today, he would have loved Tom McCarthy's The Visitor. Indeed, it resembles many of the Big Issue films of the mid-twentieth century.
April 17, 2008 at 12:00 am

New Releases: Young @ Heart: Centegenarians croon without (apparent) fear of keeling over. John McCain, take note.
April 17, 2008 at 12:00 am