I am increasingly disheartened and disturbed by what appears to be an unstoppable uptick in open misogyny. I’ve touched on this previously in a piece on Women and Oscar, but the subtle and not so subtle flames o...
It's heartening to note as of late that a bit a fire has been lit under the campaign for Corey Stoll's performance as Ernest Hemingway in Woody's Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
The actor was on hand at t...
BOSTON - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum sits fairly isolated on Boston Harbor. On a cold and clear December day, I.M. Pei’s architecture looks undeniably beautiful, in many ways showing...
"It's an exciting day," Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker says by phone the day his company's films racked up eight Independent Spirit Award nominations last week. "I'm really happy for...
While I expect to maintain a long and happy friendship with all the films in my Top 10 of 2011, there's one title I'm pretty confident I'll revisit more often than the others. I've already seen Whit Stillman's delicio...
You can't give Baker credit for Tom Cruise's hothead producer in Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" (that was six-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner Michèle Burke and her team), but Robert Downey Jr.'...
Director James Spione’s Oscar-nominated short documentary “Incident in New Baghdad” focuses on one of the Iraq War’s most controversial events. On July 12, 2007, two Apache helicopters opened f...
I have not seen Drew Goddard's "The Cabin in the Woods," but as I understand it from the ZOMG! online contingent, there are spoilers to be wary of, so I guess I won't be digging into this thre...
It seemed an easy task when I told Guy and Gerard to follow Roth's lead and help me turn the idea of "Oscar's big miss" into a quick mini-series at the end of the season. Roth's pick was undeniable. Gerard's was inspi...
"I hope you die." "Were you bullied as a child?" "Go fuck yourself." "Learn how to write." "You're a haemorrhoid." "How do you still have a job?"
Any film c...
