SARAH’S KEY – Watch It At Home: Misses a Difficult Mark There may be no cinematic minefield more dangerous for filmmakers than the Holocaust. For films entering that difficult territory, the...
THE HELP – Worth A Ticket: The Story May Be Soft, The Acting Isn’t THE HELP is–and I mean this in a good way–a big-screen Hallmark Hall of Fame. It’s a long, absorbing, emotional...
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: Worth A Ticket – David Fincher Meets Lisbeth Salander The most remarkable thing about David Fincher’s version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (written for the Engl...
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER: Worth A Ticket – The Serious Side of Being a Teen We certainly don’t lack for stories about high school in our popular culture. The CW and ABCFamily networks are almost en...
Maybe it’s time for a filmmaker who doesn’t give a damn about the Beat Generation to make the next movie about them. Michael Polish’s BIG SUR joins last year’s On the Road as a Jack Kerouac adap...