"The Liberator" generates some thinking
My movie buddy went to see "Gone Girl" with her book club, so I recruited a professor friend of mine to see "The Liberator" with.
A playwright named "Shagspeare" in Bill Cain's "Equivocation"
"Shag" for short receives a royal commission to write about Guy Fawkes and England's 1605 Gunpowder Plot.
Film review: "Love is Strange"
Put seasoned actors like John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, and Marisa Tomei together in a film, and guaranteed there'll be a certain amount of movie magic.
The Los Angeles Swiss Film Festival in review
Swiss cinema and television has a rich heritage. This motion picture plenitude was on full display at Hollywood's Harmony Gold Theater on Sept. 7.
"Wetlands” movie review: Exploring secretions and inner selves
Was I watching something with themes that applied to a swath of a generation of young people who can't bear their lives and see no hope of effecting change?
"Boyhood," in a land of opportunity they don't make it easy
Writer and director Richard Linklater's latest release had an intriguing gestation, filmed in and around Houston over a twelve-year timeframe from 2002 to 2013.
"Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists": Great socialist novel marks 100th anniversary
Frank Owen, a socialist house painter, repeatedly attempts to convert his coworkers to his way of thinking: one part of the novel is melodrama the other part social and economic satire.
"Life Itself": A Roger Ebert biopic
Having conducted an extraordinarily unpredictable life, reviewing some 6000 films, Ebert lived his own movie.
For Whom the Whistle Blows: “The Kill Team”
This documentary's real target market are those young impressionable people who have bought into the madness of Washington's endless imperial misadventures.
“What If,” romantic comedy, sells movie tickets
Zoe Kazan is teamed with Daniel Radcliffe in a story that asks the question, "Will the 'Harry Met Sally' formula work again?"
