Movie Reviews & Stories So many peculiar and archaic sights in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, yet I keep thinking about the artichokes. They sit steaming in a kitchen pot as a trio of undergraduates at Seven Oaks   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The most interesting thing about history is always the “what if.” What if, for example, Edgar Allan Poe were actually a dashingly romantic, goateed action hero shaped like John Cusack, who g   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Fake It So Real  At a time when it’s become perfectly acceptable for an adult to get a tattoo of a Stormtrooper, the last true outcast culture left in America just might be professional    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Of all the annual cinematic celebrations of group identity, the Jewish film festival seems the least necessary. Call me self-loathing, but I do not think my ancestors have been underrepresented    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Slitting  the little old church lady’s throat was a cathartic moment for Caedmon Jamonsta. It happens about two-thirds of the way into Trannysnatchers,  a locally produced horror-comedy&nb   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Of all the martyr figures in 20th-century pop music, death did Bob Marley the greatest disservice. Succumbing to cancer in 1981, the reggae icon exited the planet a Third World demigod, but post   More

Movie Reviews & Stories How does someone in my position discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s a movie whose deliberately veiled marketing campaign insists critics tiptoe...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Hell is other children, as anyone who came of age in the public school system is well aware. For the average kid, absorbing cruelty from one’s peers is just an accepted part of growing up. In    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Blue Like Jazz Blue Like Jazz is an odd beast: a pro-Christian movie condemned by multiple evangelical groups, an earnest and often affecting Igby Goes Down for the puppeteering-for-Christ set. The   More

Movie Reviews & Stories It turns out the heart does go on.  This week, Titanic becomes the latest cash cow to be re-milked in 3-D. The release will cause slight heart palpitations in some people and a twinge of bi   More