Edelstein Returns!
"The time has come to charge ahead or fall on my sword," says New York's David Edelstein, who'll be posting updates on his blog, the Projectionist, more frequently — beginning today with his review of Phoebe in Wonderland, in which Felicity Huffman gives what Edelstein calls "one of the bravest — and truest — portraits of a parent on film I’ve ever seen." [Projectionist]

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