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

Movie Reviews & Stories As the title hints, it’s a kind of Western: A small-town posse (police chief, prosecutor, stenographer and coroner) drives by night through the Turkish steppe, trying to illuminate the shallow g   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Perhaps you hadn’t noticed, but the Indonesian film industry has taken its share of blows over the years. In many ways...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories We need to talk about Cyril. He is the kid in The Kid With a Bike, and he’s got some issues. A pale, sinewy 11-year-old, he’s been discarded by his parents at a Belgian boys’ home. He’s al   More

Movie Reviews & Stories A few assurances for anxious Hunger Games book fans: Actress Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t ruin bow-wielding heroine Katniss. Death still comes by genetically engineered dog, spear and swarm of ha   More