3 Oct 2008
Did you ever wonder who fine-tuned the technology behind the intermittent windshield wiper? Neither did I until I caught Marc Abraham's Flash of Genius, .. read more
3 Oct 2008
Remember how shocking (not) it was when The Devil Wears Prada taught us how insane the workplace is at a high-gloss fashion magazine very much like Vogue? .. read more
3 Oct 2008
Brimming with energy, elan and the unpredictability of his "Something Wild," Jonathan Demme's triumphant "Rachel Getting Married" may just lay the wedding .. read more
3 Oct 2007
You have nothing to lose but your inhibitions. That, in sum, is the underlying message of Bill Maher and Larry Charles’ brilliant, incendiary .. read more
3 Oct 2008
After shipwrecking with "Swept Away" and misfiring with "Revolver," Brit filmmaker Guy Ritchie bounces back to top form with "RocknRolla," a cleverly .. read more
3 Oct 2008
India and Pakistan may have their problems, but once in a while along comes a film like Ramchand Pakistani that forces us all into acknowledgment of not .. read more
10 Oct 2008
Neither the location-based verisimilitude of Ridley Scott's shooting style nor the estimable Middle East expertise of source-material author David Ignatius .. read more
10 Oct 2008
Crowdpleasing and oh-so-predictable, "The Express" is a muscular movie with social conscience that portrays Ernie Davis -- the first African-American .. read more
10 Oct 2008
Six months after he went all gooey over America in My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-Wai returns packing a re-tooled cut of his indecipherable 1994 martial-arts .. read more
10 Oct 2008
No one expects confection from British sobersides Mike Leigh, so his light-as-air new film "Happy-Go-Lucky" is as surprising as it is delicious with an .. read more