Tag: Film & Television

In the event that you have forgotten a favorite among the reading lists of your elementary school, let me sum up the premise of Mr. Popper’s Penguins. A painter and …

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I was raised on Steven Spielberg films as a child. I spent countless hours watching them, rewatching, and then trying to recreate them with our family video camera and  whatever …

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The longer Woody Allen goes on making films, the more and more he starts to look like a classic rock band that isn’t sure when to unplug and hang it …

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I hate cats. I really do. So when a film begins with awkward narration by a homeless, haggard feline, I’m prepared for something miserable. Fortunately, Miranda July’s The Future is not …

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Consider this a fair sampling of the odds and ends one sees at South by Southwest. One movie stars a bubbly Kristen Wiig weighed down by the economic depression in …

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  Submarine is the kind of film that walks a very thin line between being appropriately offbeat and overblown with quirky pretentiousness. Those who can identify with the film will …

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People watch sitcoms for different reasons. Some people just want to be entertained at all costs. Some look for deep character development. Some look for a strong sense of continuity. …

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“L.A. Noire” became the first video game featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. Giveaways inside!

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Filling the Renaissance boots that The Tudors left, Showtime is broadcasting The Borgias, a drama about the conspiring and scandalous papal family of Pope Alexander VI.  In this lavish Canadian-Hungarian-Irish …

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Part comedy, part detective story, “The Bengali Detective” is a creative, powerful, and wonderfully entertaining documentary

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