Miami Vice director Michael Mann wisely chooses Johnny Depp for lead role
By Scott Foundas
Wednesday, July 01
"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More >>
THE 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT Earlier this month, a group of adventurous Minnesota filmmakers was given 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short... More >>
Kirby Dick attempts to out sexual hypocrites in politics
By Scott Foundas
Wednesday, June 17
Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but his goal is more... More >>
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it... More >>
In the early 1960s, Norman Mailer's essay "The White Negro" hit an American cultural phenomenon square on the nose: the alienated white hipster's... More >>
Todd Phillips's film doesn't have much to say about women
By Jim Ridley
Wednesday, June 03
What Fletch was to water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya, that's... More >>
Quick! Noel Coward: sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott's deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the... More >>
Alison Lohman bears brunt of film's supernatural humiliations
By Nick Pinkerton
Wednesday, May 27
Sam Raimi wants to go home again. Often a drifting virtuoso in the
years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to
Hell Raimi defaults... More >>
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old
coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child
during a series of... More >>
Director McG just wants to "re-establish credibility" with moviegoers
By Nick Pinkerton
Wednesday, May 20
Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's new model of killing... More >>
Lead actor Tom Hanks says movie is "not important, but it's fun"
By Ella Taylor
Wednesday, May 13
At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was... More >>