Review: ‘Soul Surfer’
There are times as a critic when the criteria shifts, when the subjective nature of the job requires explanation because …
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Bonus Features
Asking Anne Hathaway and James Franco to host the Academy Awards was an open invitation, likely the first truly meaningful …
North Dixie Drive
Back in 2005 when Sufjan Stevens released Illinois following up Michigan, the 2003 disc dedicated to his home state, an …
Review: ‘I Love You, Phillip Morris’
I Love You, Phillip Morris might have been the best love story of 2010. So what if it was based on …
The Outsider Behind ‘Cedar Rapids’
In what might be the funniest scene thus far in film, Ron Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock Jr. of later Spike Lee …
Lesser-Known Love Stories
Erich Segal is best known as the author of “Love Story,” the sentimental weeper starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw …
Review: ‘Another Year’
There is a particular genius to the filmmaking process of Mike Leigh. The celebrated British director of “Life is Sweet,” …
The Second Annual Yellow Springs Short Film Festival
Noted writer Raymond Carver, who died prematurely in 1988, devoted himself to the art of the short story, becoming one …
Fragmentation of the Audience
Once upon a time, people watched movies in movie theaters as a collective whole. We paid a few pennies for …
Review: ‘Made in Dagenham’
Sally Hawkins impressed me immeasurably in “Never Let Me Go,” Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel, which left …
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