Review: Strangers with Candy
Friday June 30, 2006
Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert bring their hit Comedy Central TV show to the big screen. Strangers with Candy features appearances by Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alison ... Read More
Review Mash-Up: Superman Returns vs. The Road to Guantanamo
Friday June 23, 2006
Bryan Singer's comic book spectacular features a latex-clad hero with fluttering cape; Michael Winterbottom's docudrama is about men in chains and orange jumpsuits. Both films are about superpowers, truth, justice, ... Read More
Review: The Great New Wonderful
Friday June 23, 2006
Danny Leiner's thoughtful ensemble drama follows the stories of five disparate sets of New Yorkers a year after the attacks of 9/11. In a large and disjoined cast of characters, ... Read More
Film Bites: Only Human
Wednesday June 21, 2006
A thoroughly satisfying screwball comedy from Spain about a young woman who brings her Palestinian boyfriend home to her Jewish family. The overbearing mother tells her right away that it ... Read More
Review: Lower City
Friday June 16, 2006
Bodily fluids flow freely and passions run high in Lower City, Sérgio Machado's oh-so-earnest debut film about a love triangle between two friends and a prostitute. Brazilian actress Alice Braga ... Read More
Review: Pandora's Box
Wednesday June 14, 2006
Lust, gambling, adultery, blackmail, prostitution, and murder: Louise Brooks epitomizes an era of delirious decadence in G.W. Pabst's 1929 film about a dancer without morals. Like the mythical Pandora, Brooks ... Read More
Review: Agnes and His Brothers
Thursday June 8, 2006
Horny librarians, tragic transsexuals, and suburban maniacs: in writer-director Oskar Roehler's farce, Cologne is populated with freakishly exaggerated characters. Agnes and His Brothers, with Moritz Bleibtreu, Martin Weiss, Katja ... Read More
New DVD Releases: A Nos Amours, Dazed and Confused
Tuesday June 6, 2006
Sixteen-year-old Sandrine Bonnaire comes of age before your eyes in Maurice Pialat's A Nos Amours, and Richard Linklater's classic Dazed and Confused gets the Criterion treatment. Also: Sarah Silverman's Jesus ... Read More