| Title |
Type |
Date |
Words |
| Looking for sparks: 'Sin Nombre' & 'Duplicity'. |
Movie review |
May 8, 2009 |
1422 |
| Into the cracks: now on DVD. |
Movie review |
Apr 24, 2009 |
1144 |
| Walled in: 'The Class' & 'Wendy and Lucy'. |
Movie review |
Mar 27, 2009 |
1426 |
| Summer intern: the reader. |
|
Feb 13, 2009 |
1292 |
| Trick, no treat: 'doubt'. |
|
Jan 30, 2009 |
1232 |
| Blood lust: 'Twilight'. |
Movie review |
Dec 19, 2008 |
1085 |
| No reservations: Mike Leigh's 'happy-go-lucky. |
Movie review |
Dec 5, 2008 |
1161 |
| The people in darkness: 'Religulous' & 'Blindness'. |
Movie review |
Nov 7, 2008 |
1154 |
| Light as a feather: 'I Served the King of England'. |
Movie review |
Oct 24, 2008 |
982 |
| Some like it hot; 'Elegy' & 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'. |
Movie review |
Sep 26, 2008 |
1465 |
| All grown up: 'The Dark Knight'. |
Movie review |
Sep 12, 2008 |
1306 |
| Past prime: 'Sex and the City'. |
Movie review |
Jul 18, 2008 |
1398 |
| Young at heart: 'Prince Caspian' & 'Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the Crystal Skull'. |
Movie review |
Jun 20, 2008 |
1196 |
| Suiting up 'Iron Man' & 'Redbelt'. |
Movie review |
Jun 6, 2008 |
1407 |
| Confused sympathies: 'Married Life' & '21'. |
Movie review |
May 9, 2008 |
1292 |
| Behind enemy lines: 'the counterfeiters'. |
Movie review |
Apr 11, 2008 |
1251 |
| Catastrophe looms: '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'. |
Movie review |
Mar 28, 2008 |
1079 |
| Locked in: 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'. |
Movie review |
Feb 29, 2008 |
1015 |
| Thicker than oil: 'There Will Be Blood'. |
Movie review |
Feb 15, 2008 |
1443 |
| Fractured: 'I'm not there' & 'The Golden Compass'. |
Movie review |
Jan 18, 2008 |
1380 |
| The haunting: 'no country for old men'. |
Movie review |
Dec 21, 2007 |
1315 |
| Hope abandoned: Ang Lee's 'Lust, Caution'. |
Movie review |
Nov 23, 2007 |
1173 |
| The fixer: Tony Gilroy's 'Michael Clayton'. |
Movie review |
Nov 9, 2007 |
1101 |
| Gun therapy: 'The Brave One'. |
Movie review |
Oct 12, 2007 |
951 |
| Overcrowded: '3:10 to Yuma'. |
Movie review |
Sep 28, 2007 |
937 |
| All too real. |
Movie review |
Aug 17, 2007 |
909 |
| Behind the music: 'once' & 'La Vie en Rose'. |
Sound recording review |
Jul 13, 2007 |
1235 |
| Cheating to be Faithful: 'Away from Her'. |
Movie review |
Jun 15, 2007 |
1296 |
| Bogs of war: 'The 300'. |
|
May 18, 2007 |
980 |
| Identity crisis: Mira Nair's 'The Namesake'. |
Movie review |
May 4, 2007 |
1208 |
| Under the mask: 'Breach' & 'the lives of others'. |
Movie review |
Apr 6, 2007 |
1420 |
| The other abolitionists: 'Amazing Grace'. |
Movie review |
Mar 23, 2007 |
895 |
| The other side: 'Letters from Iwo Jima' & 'Pan's labyrinth'. |
Movie review |
Feb 23, 2007 |
1174 |
| Inscrutable: 'LITTLE CHILDREN'. |
Movie review |
Feb 9, 2007 |
1104 |
| Back to Basics: 'APOCALYPTO' & 'THE NATIVITY STORY'. |
|
Jan 12, 2007 |
1421 |
| British Invasion: 'BORAT' & 'THE QUEEN'. |
|
Dec 15, 2006 |
1332 |
| A Heroic Effort: CLINT EASTWOOD'S 'FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS'. |
Movie review |
Nov 17, 2006 |
980 |
| Boston massacre: 'The Departed'. |
Movie review |
Nov 3, 2006 |
1114 |
| L.A. stories: 'Hollywoodland' & 'The Black Dahlia'. |
Movie review |
Oct 6, 2006 |
1366 |
| Passion play: Oliver Stone's World Trade Center'. |
|
Sep 22, 2006 |
1359 |
| Nerd Heaven: 'WORDPLAY' & 'A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION'. |
|
Aug 11, 2006 |
1264 |
| Puzzle Solved: 'The Da Vinci Code'. |
|
Jun 16, 2006 |
1007 |
| Staying afloat: Lajos Koltai's 'Fateless'. |
|
May 19, 2006 |
1351 |
| Mean Streets: GAVIN HOOD'S 'TSOTSI'. |
Movie review |
Apr 21, 2006 |
848 |
| Displaced person: 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada'. |
Movie review |
Mar 24, 2006 |
1187 |
| Making History: MUNICH' & 'SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS'. |
Movie review |
Mar 10, 2006 |
1532 |
| Emotional Apartheid: 'BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN'. |
Movie review |
Feb 10, 2006 |
1217 |
| No Tame Lion: 'THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE'. |
|
Jan 13, 2006 |
1444 |
| Two to Tango: 'PRIDE AND PREJUDICE' & 'SHOPGIRL'. |
Movie Review |
Dec 16, 2005 |
1514 |
| Civil courage: "Good Night, and Good Luck" & "North Country". |
Movie Review |
Nov 18, 2005 |
1130 |
| Public enemy: "A History of Violence". |
Movie Review |
Oct 21, 2005 |
1199 |
| No easy gait: 'Broken Flowers' & 'March of the Penguins'. |
Movie Review |
Sep 23, 2005 |
1217 |
| Strange invaders:"War of the Worlds" & "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". |
Movie Review |
Aug 12, 2005 |
1562 |
| Tempted by the devil: 'The Ninth Day'. |
Book Review |
Jun 17, 2005 |
1309 |
| Skin deep: 'Crash' & 'Kingdom of Heaven'. |
Movie Review |
Jun 3, 2005 |
1409 |
| Scarlet's web: 'Our Fathers' on Showtime. |
Television Program Review |
May 20, 2005 |
1268 |
| Blood sport: 'Sin City' & 'Walk on Water'. |
Movie Review |
May 6, 2005 |
1222 |
| Settling accounts: 'The Merchant of Venice' & 'Downfall'. |
Movie Review |
Apr 8, 2005 |
1264 |
| Corruption & transcendence: the films of Carl Dreyer. |
Biography |
Mar 25, 2005 |
1973 |
| Slipping on the Orange Peel. |
Book Review |
Feb 25, 2005 |
1483 |
| It's cold up there: 'The Aviator'. |
Movie Review |
Feb 11, 2005 |
1184 |
| Sex, drugs & R & B: 'Ray' & 'Kinsey'. |
Movie Review |
Jan 14, 2005 |
1456 |
| Alter egos: Team America' & 'the incredibles'. |
Movie Review |
Dec 3, 2004 |
1295 |
| Easy riders: The Motorcycle Diaries'. |
Movie Review |
Nov 5, 2004 |
1482 |
| Not 'Vile' enough: 'Bright Young Things'. |
Movie Review |
Oct 22, 2004 |
1388 |
| Mythmaking: 'Hero' & 'Vanity Fair'. |
Movie Review |
Sep 24, 2004 |
1479 |
| Brain drain: 'The Manchurian Candidate'. |
Movie Review |
Sep 10, 2004 |
1160 |
| Patriot acts: 'The Terminal'. |
Movie Review |
Jul 16, 2004 |
1489 |
| Mythology lite: Wolfgang Petersen's 'Troy'. |
Movie Review |
Jun 4, 2004 |
1553 |
| East meets west: 'Goodbye, Lenin!' & 'Kill Bill--Volume 2'. |
Movie Review |
May 7, 2004 |
1347 |
| The melancholy Dane: Lars von Trier's Dogville'. |
Movie Review |
Apr 9, 2004 |
1360 |
| Torturous: Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ'. |
Movie Review |
Mar 12, 2004 |
1536 |
| Final cut: Hollywood does the afterlife. |
Critical Essay |
Feb 13, 2004 |
1769 |
| Peter Jackson's sorcery: 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. |
Critical Essay |
Jan 30, 2004 |
1633 |
| Dig in: 'holes' & 'raising Victor Vargas'. (Screen). |
|
Jun 20, 2003 |
1185 |
| Games people play: 'Laurel Canyon' & "Bend It Like Beckham'. (Screen). |
|
May 9, 2003 |
1542 |
| Keeping up with the Simses: from Monopoly to cyberspace. (Culture Watch). |
|
Feb 28, 2003 |
1222 |
| The godfather: the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara--the play. (Culture Watch). |
|
Dec 6, 2002 |
1609 |
| Lions, dinosaurs, & Jules Feiffer. (Children's Books). |
|
Nov 22, 2002 |
2594 |
| Mixing it up: Richard Rodriguez on 'Brown'. (Culture Watch). |
|
Sep 13, 2002 |
1280 |
| Comic erudition: R. Crumb meets Kafka. (Culture Watch). |
|
Jul 12, 2002 |
1215 |
| TOWARD A 'CATHOLIC' THEATER : The legacy of Gilbert Hartke. |
Critical Essay |
Jun 1, 2002 |
1528 |
| TRUE CONFESSIONS : Fifteen years of 'Biography'. |
Television Program Review |
May 3, 2002 |
1394 |
| KIDS' VIDS: To be seen & heard. |
Video Recording Review |
Mar 8, 2002 |
1431 |
| MISSING THE DARK SIDE : Ken Burns does 'Mark Twain'. |
|
Feb 22, 2002 |
1668 |
| A MAJOR MINOR POET: Billy Collins isn't just funny. |
|
Jan 11, 2002 |
1703 |
| A&E GETS A FACE-LIFT : Stark reality slicked up. |
|
Dec 7, 2001 |
1434 |
| TV IN A TIME OF TERROR : The channels are changing. |
|
Nov 9, 2001 |
1196 |
| HOW SICK CAN WE GET? Very. |
|
Jul 13, 2001 |
1626 |
| THE RAP ON 'RAP' : Yo, where's the melody? |
|
Jun 15, 2001 |
1507 |
| PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE : Movie stars on a stage near you. |
|
May 4, 2001 |
1489 |
| AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... : A brief history of the statuette. |
|
Apr 6, 2001 |
1562 |
| I READ THE BOOK -- 'Hannibal': Nearly undigestible. |
Book Review |
Mar 9, 2001 |
1651 |
| STOP THE PRESSES : Start your own. |
|
Feb 9, 2001 |
1770 |
| BEAM ME UP : A repackaged Apocalypse. |
|
Jan 12, 2001 |
1644 |
| QUADRANTS & QUALITY : Why Hollywood feeds kids schlock. |
|
Dec 1, 2000 |
1688 |
| ON SCREEN, BILL'S BETTER SELF : Hollywood's would-be president. |
Television Program Review |
Nov 3, 2000 |
1599 |
| CHEAPER THAN CRACK : Keeping us hooked on TV. |
Column |
Oct 6, 2000 |
1353 |
| END OF THE AFFAIR - Quitting the movies, for now. |
|
Apr 7, 2000 |
1625 |
| AH, THE THEATER - 'Cradle Will Rock' & 'Topsy-Turvy'. |
Movie Review |
Mar 10, 2000 |
1609 |
