KEY LARGO, Fla. -- The African Queen, the iconic original vessel from the classic film of the same name, is plying nearshore waters and canals in the ...
Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012
It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.14.2012
John Farr | Posted 02.15.2012
I just know many of you out there are scrambling to catch up on your holiday gift giving. This article's for you.
John Farr | Posted 11.04.2011
This 63-year-old feature looked almost as if it had been shot last week. I was intensely aware of Moira Shearer's heavy make-up and could literally see Anton Walbrook's pores. It was fascinating, hypnotic, but also more than a little distracting.
John Farr | Posted 09.27.2011
If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?
Posted 09.02.2011
The number of American-born all-time greats in the field of writing, painting, and composing is legion, but given the nation's relative inception (con...
Rabbi Shais Taub | Posted 08.17.2011
Why do we need to see whether the clouds will part and light will beam down and a heavenly voice will be heard? Go behold a man or a woman who has risen above nature's steely grip.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
Christian Bale strikes me as a complete enigma. Yes, his acting chops are prodigious, but he seems to me to be all technique and no heart; we get buckets of perfectly formed ice, but very little fire.
Simona Rabinovitch | Posted 05.25.2011
This magical little joint at Chinatown's border evokes a Shanghai speakeasy circa 1930 -- or rather, a movie set of one.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011
While there were no surprises regarding SAG wins for best male lead actor, Colin Firth, and supporting actor, Christian Bale, it was refreshing to see Melissa Leo snag the best supporting actress award.
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
Monk: The Complete Series ($249.98; Universal) is out on DVD and it's a compulsively thorough job that's worthy of the OCD man himself. I've been ...
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
Crime has not just been good to the criminals; it's been awfully good to Hollywood as well.
Julie Gray | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the new, improved, always evolving GASP list -- the list of movies that you should have seen if you want to work (produce, write, direct, act) in the entertainment industry.
Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011
In a country that cut its ties to the British monarchy 234 years ago, it's fitting that a food as unpretentious as the hot dog has inspired such drama and devotion. It's worth remembering some examples.
Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011
Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
I look at the new action movies coming out, and I have to wonder: Where's our new Lee Marvin? The manly man, the bad guy turned good guy, the guy who's so ugly he's almost beautiful, the guy who takes no prisoners?
Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011
In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, several real-life romances have emerged as potential threats to the on-screen classics like Bogart and Bacall and Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.
Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011
Kutcher lives in a reality-free zone wherein human beings are unemotional creatures who can perform sex scenes without any emotional attachment.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
With time it was inevitable that the technological innovation called "Blu-ray" would impinge on my particular corner of the movie universe, and I would have to confront it, willingly or not.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.
Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011
Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place is one of the most poignant pictures (violently poignant at times) within the film noir canon, a genre haunted by doomed love.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
While Hollywood continues to dominate the global film market, the most original, intelligent, and enduring movies today are being made outside this country.
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
I firmly believe that what we consume by way of popular entertainment helps determine the overall quality of our lives.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
According to dictionary.com a "Demagogue Is a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, pa...
AP | Posted 04.13.2012