Critics thought that Hostess Brands, consistent with its famous Twinkies, would never spoil. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Or were they?
Too often, people get stuck in their own worlds and opportunities to connect and help others are wasted. Both Move for Hunger and Urban Roots are thriving because they re-engineered traditional practices with innovative solutions by embracing the "win-win."
There were some fantastic movies that came out last year that didn't get any Academy Award nominations. Here are five that are all available on DVD or streaming online and totally worth checking out.
If you're a discerning moviegoer who lives in a community with a specialty theater (or art house, as we used to call them), you may have seen some of the titles on my list. But there are some smaller, more offbeat pictures, that fly under the radar of even avid film buffs.
If you're a discerning moviegoer who lives in a community with a specialty theater (or art house, as we used to call them), you may have seen some of the titles on my list. But there are some smaller, more offbeat pictures, that fly under the radar of even avid film buffs.
The United States, and in fact, the rest of the world, especially the fear-driven crisis-mongering media and markets, could learn a few things by slowing down, realizing it takes time to build healthy economies, especially such a new one as the European Union.
Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, and a traditionally fallow period for good movies as studios and distributors dump a lot of crummy movies ...
The dream, as it is usually imagined and, in rare cases realized, is to leave behind the small town and shine in the bright lights of Hollywood. Turni...
At its halfway point, 2011 has seen a number of blockbusters already -- think "Bridesmaids," "Hangover II," "X-Men" -- but it's also seen a range of m...
So - if the movie year had ended June 30 and we had to choose the best films of 2011 from the releases that hit American screens since Jan. 1, which o...
It's hard enough as a married couple to keep lines of good communication open and flowing...
Negotiating isn't about getting the biggest slice of the pie--it's about learning to make the pie bigger.
What if our most important endeavors, those that determine the direction of our country, dictate the quality of our relationships and define us as human beings, could be structured in such a way that everybody wins?
There's not much glamor found in high school wrestling. And Win Win does a pretty good job of showing it.
By Leonard Maltin With so much mediocrity on display at the multiplex, it's cause for celebration when terrific new movies from two world-class filmm...
Onscreen in Tom McCarthy's Win Win, they interact like a long-time married couple. In fact, actors Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan barely knew each other ...
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we're getting too much of stuff we don't need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance.
An editor once defined the word "dilemma" for me as "a choice between two undesirable outcomes." Life is full of dilemmas. So are movies: Without dil...
Film festival programmers rarely create festivals full of films built around a single theme. Yet quite unintentionally, I spent Friday seeing five films that dealt with the idea of abandonment, reunion and reconciliation.
On Thursday, the opening day of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, my actual Sundance day began and ended with the opening night screening of Susan Rost...
Okay, let me start by saying I know that they are not getting divorced, at least not at the moment, and that they're trying to work things through wit...
Kate Gosselin recently admitted that two of her kids have anger issues, which she believes stem from her divorce. But she then said "there's no truce necessary" between her and her ex-husband. Really?
