Girls Can Play

The blurb at the start of the IMAX 3D version of Beowulf promised “the ultimate movie experience,” and I was hoping it would ...

“It’s very good that the Coens took the words Cormac wrote and didn’t try to ‘improve’ them,” said Tommy Lee Jones, sounding a ...

On first impression, Anthony Grippa strikes you as a likeable, somewhat diffident guy, as much a watcher as a doer. But he obvi...

Forget the hype about Sofia Coppola: Sarah Polley, the 28-year-old writer-director of Away From Her, is the real deal. Sure, Cop...

Allan Loeb is one of those screenwriters who’s famous within the industry for a movie nobody has seen. An as-yet unproduced scr...

Central Jersey film lovers have a rare opportunity to see works by a distinguished director of short “avant-garde” films whe...

With our country in an increasingly unpopular war, movie audiences seem to be dividing into two camps. Most people are getting ...

Julie Delpy is the kind of star you feel as if you could be friends with if your paths ever crossed. She’s not too vain to l...

I was surprised not to see any kids at the crowded weekend afternoon screening where I saw Stardust. This neo-classic fantasy ...

When a friendly young woman with a fistful of flyers and a headful of curls worked a line I was in at Austin’s South by Sout...

There’s a big difference between riffing on material you love and mimicking something you don’t feel in your bones. It’s the di...

“I don’t like to engage in telling stories,” says Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in an interview packaged on the DVD ...

Masters of the Hollywood system like Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Preston Sturges were still making movies when Clint East...

If you were too young or too old to get swept up in the cultural tsunami of the Sixties, you missed a lot of good times and t...

A lot of the talk about the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, one of British social satirist Sacha Baron Cohen’s comed...

The reaction of the British people to their royal family is “very complicated,” said director Stephen Frears in the Q&A fol...

The reaction of the British people to their royal family is “very complicated,” said director Stephen Frears in the Q&A fol...

Writer/director Nicole Holofcener has a gift for exploring the inner lives of women and the relationships that challenge and sust...

As the letters of Inside Man’s opening credits break apart and rearrange themselves like tumblers in a lock, an infectious Hin...