From the first shot of The Belles of St. Trinian’s – which shows the sign of the St. Trinian’s School for Young Ladies being fired at by what sounds like…
Lust Caution: Sex scenes fail to offend Venice Film Festival jury. Yesterday, surprising many prognosticators, the controversial, near-sexually explicit spy thriller Se, Ji / Lust, Caution earned Ang Lee his…
Match Point with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay written by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Stanislaw Lem, and based on Theodore Dreiser’s An…
Harold Pinter. Nobel Prize in Literature winner delivers controversial acceptance speech fulminating against the U.S. government, the Iraq War, and war hawks George W. Bush and Tony Blair. Harold Pinter…
Stage Beauty movie: Mixing elements from All About Eve and Shakespeare in Love, among other titles, Richard Eyre and Jeffrey Hatcher’s big-screen version of the latter’s play fails to delve…