- December 5, 2005
- Shape Shifter: Ralph Fiennes
"I think you can be competent and satisfy a lot of people, but the moments when you become a tiny part of something larger hardly ever happen."
- November 28, 2005
- Clarification
Beloved blues musician or muttonchopped POTUS?
- November 28, 2005
- Trailer Mix
Our reviews of this week's previews.
- November 21, 2005
- Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Oscar buzz works on a reverse sonic-boom principle: Your hear it (the buzz) before you see it (the movie).
- November 7, 2005
- Show and Tell: Kubrick's New York
The late Stanley Kubrick filmed outer space, ancient Rome, Vietnam, and the view from a nuclear missile, but when the filmmaker first looked through a viewfinder, he saw New York.
- October 24, 2005
- Wonder Boy
Robert Downey Jr. is at the peak of his talents. Again. For now.
- October 24, 2005
- How Sincere Is Too Sincere?
The ‘Elizabethtown’ conundrum.
- October 17, 2005
- Trailer Mix
Previews reviewed.
- October 3, 2005
- Influences: David Cronenberg
"I did aspire to be an obscure novelist. I thought you could probably do your best work outside of fame, and I figured someone like me would discover me years from then."
- October 3, 2005
- The Monster from Manhattan
‘Capote’ captures the predator within the journalist.