Film
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Rip-Off Artist
Say, do you like John Carpenter's The Thing? Or maybe its '50s predecessor, The Thing From Another World? I bet you'd be thrilled to hear...
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Love Story
There are plenty of films that want to be Weekend. They trickle into multiplexes around the country a few times a year, feeding into a...
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Girl on Film
Summer may be over, and so is 1987. With Dirty Girl, you can revisit both. It's hot, dismal and dusty. It's the end of the...
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Good Chance
Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...
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Shorts Circuit
It's kind of amazing short films aren't more popular. The barriers that stand in the way of feature-lengths -- namely, cash, the crazy expensive cameras...
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Midnight Madness
Paul Klein didn't have a clue about Clue. ''The one I had no idea we were supposed to love was Clue,'' Klein says, about gay...
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Radical Faeries
A kid's imagination is terrifying. It puts fang-gnashing meanies in cellars, attributes midnight creaks and moans to wicked poltergeists, and lets God-knows-what hide underneath America's...
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Unkind Cut
As the summer winds down, Hollywood always unloads the slop at the bottom of its action-and-adventure barrel, serving up steaming piles of Expendables and Final...
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Reality Check
Ruben Fleischer's 30 Minutes or Less should be a perfectly serviceable buddy movie. Sure, it falls for some typical pitfalls -- a slacker trades bro-laced,...
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Western Encounters
Let's get something out of the way: Cowboys & Aliens is not an attempt to turn camp into cash. The movie's got plenty of the...
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American Idol
Captain America: The First Avenger is a tease. The latest in a string of superhero movies churned out by Marvel Studios, it's little more than...
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Everybody Hurts
When Harry Potter makes his curtain call, it's not just any end. It's The End. The end to a decade-long cinematic buffet that's made such...
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Killer Jobs
If Horrible Bosses is to be believed, times must be hard for middle-aged white men. They don't have many career options, they're stuck with jerk...
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Required Viewing
''The real difference between last year and this year,'' says Scott Kenison, founding chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, ''is that this...
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Classic Grace
Let's be clear: Dina Merrill is not a diva. ''She is extremely gracious and sophisticated,'' says Lynn Rossotti of Hillwood Estates. And yet, Merrill is...
