War-related movies were the big winners at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival: The Iraq War drama Turtles Can Fly received the Golden Shell, while the Danish drama Brothers, about…
Iconic Nouvelle Vague actress Jeanne Moreau (The Lovers, Jules and Jim) is one of the French film stars – a couple of others are Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche –…
The new Claude Lelouch film – the widely panned The Parisians – is a box office disaster. In an attempt to rectify the situation, the Oscar-nominated A Man and a…
About a Boy movie: Chris and Paul Weitz’s trendy, trite comedy takes the moral high ground by lecturing audiences that “maturity” equals “commitment,” and that absolutely no man has the…
Venice Festival: Starring Imelda Staunton as a one-woman abortion clinic in 1950s England, Mike Leigh’s abortion drama Vera Drake was this year’s Golden Lion winner; Staunton took home the Best…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie review: Alfonso Cuarón’s hit fantasy about wizards, dementors, and hippogriffs boasts lots of great visual effects, but features precious little cinematic magic.…
Bill Condon’s sex research movie Kinsey is one of the Toronto Film Festival’s eclectic – and at times contentious – entries. Liam Neeson stars as sexologist Alfred Kinsey, whose works…
An ongoing controversy surrounding Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Adolf Hitler movie Downfall, starring Bruno Ganz as Der Führer, has at its core the following question: Should modern history’s most hated man be…