Major Oscar Winners Making Giant TV Leap
From Zooey Deschanel and Christina Ricci to Dustin Hoffman, Ashton Kutcher and Jeff Daniels, TV has taken in an unusual number of established movie st...
From Zooey Deschanel and Christina Ricci to Dustin Hoffman, Ashton Kutcher and Jeff Daniels, TV has taken in an unusual number of established movie st...
Posted 11.28.2011
With box office opportunities of the utmost importants, producers often work to minimize the foul language in films. The general rule, according to th...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.20.2011
With Jeff Bridges' new album, Dudeists have music to go along with their scriptures. Could a Dudeist liturgy be on the horizon as well?
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.17.2011
It's really hard to imagine the level of creativity and output we see from Sheila E.
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
If you believed the movies, to venture across the George Washington Bridge is to court danger down every street. But NYC's not alone in this treatment by Hollywood, and we've got the filmed documentation to prove it.
Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011
It's a basic tenet of good storytelling that whatever plans your characters put into action, it can't hurt if things don't go quite as smoothly as anticipated.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
What to make of omnibus/anthology films such as New York, I Love You? Do you judge them by the best of the short films contained within? Or by the wo...
Will Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011
The Coen universe is so meticulously crafted that the absence of an inherent order seems almost impossible. How could something of such exquisite function arise from something so absurd and meaningless?
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
The Toronto Film Festival ended over the weekend. In covering it I saw some 24 films in all, including a few Oscar hopefuls that actually delivered.
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011
The Coens have created moral universes in which some of life's essential questions are asked -- if not always answered. It seems there's no question the brothers are afraid to tackle.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Directed by Jason Reitman, Up in the Air puts Reitman at three for three, in terms of movies that manage to be both smart and wickedly witty. This film could easily put a second Oscar on George Clooney's mantle.
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
Reviewed: the new Coen brothers movie, George Clooney, fuzzy Ukrainian subtitles and a pack of arty Vikings.
Posted 12.05.2011