By some reports Steven Soderbergh, may stop making films. I hope not. And I look forward to a time when moviemakers have the courage to make and promote films like Haywire, even if they "under-perform," as Haywire did

The Christmas season can be a lot of fun, buying and getting gifts, going to parties, being with friends and family, but it also has a profound spiritual component. And when people talk about "the holidays," there is often a kind of edge to that phrase, perhaps because this season...

Warrior, the new film from Gavin O'Connor, couldn't be more fitting for the times we live in.

It asks, how do you forgive when you really have been wronged? How do you proceed when no one believes in you? How do you...

Not exactly what I expected to be writing about Yoav Potash's spare documentary, CRIME AFTER CRIME. I was all geared up, in fact, to comment on dysfunctions endemic to many black communities, given that the film's about a black woman unjustly incarcerated for life.

Something else happened, however, that...

Werner Herzog is one filmmaker who defies the trailer, the reviewer and whatever formula you want to put on him. When I walk into a Herzog movie I never know what's going to happen. And when I walk out of one, I often...

Are you really trying this with me?

It's a strange thing when someone lies to your face and you both know it.

I left the house Good Friday eve feeling pretty good. I love the Easter holiday season. Ever since I was a kid I was captured by this...

"Am I the only one who liked this film?" a middle-aged woman's saying, talking to two other people. We've all just come out of SUCKER PUNCH, which just opened in theaters. When your number's in the 30's on Metacritic, I think it's pretty safe to say that she...

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Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the show was ready for an Emmy of anything. But JJ Abrams, is respected in the industry and we've seen other shows be given the time to be nurtured and to grow their audiences -- Fringe anyone? (Also, incidentally, another JJ Abrams...

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Even in the night, how lights they streaming
golden fish turtles gossamer shining,
it's wasted energy being afraid.