"Forks Over Knives": Eat your vegetables!
Forks Over Knives is a long argument for eating more plant-based food.
Einstein meets Eisenstein in "The Tree of Life"
Four words I never thought I'd see in the same film: Sean Penn and dinosaurs.
"Carancho": Film noir that can't get much darker
We know what corruption and film noir look like, though, and "Carancho" is a fine example.
Sugar's bittersweet history
The history of sugar is a fascinating, complicated and ongoing journey that takes us through the brutal depths of slavery to the heights of resistance and abolition, to the ingenuity of invention from Hershey's milk chocolate to Brazil's biofuels.
“Thor” hammers away at box office
Rather than coming off as corny and preposterous, Thor contains scenes that are grandiose and moving.
“My Perestroika”: Russians cope with capitalism in fascinating documentary
Few films released in the West have shown how the transition from socialism has affected Russians and other Eastern Europeans.
"Orgasm Inc.": a revealing documentary
Science's current counterpart to the space race is the competition to send women over the moon.
"Potiche": entertaining film features stars, strikes, class struggle
The delightful Potiche tackles the class war in an extremely entertaining, thought-provoking, funny way.
Korean film explores employee and employer relationship
The essential relationship between employee and employer is explored in this outstanding allegory/soap opera.
