Crouching Tiger, Eating Panda
The latest animated family film from DreamWorks Animation, Kung Fu Panda is not as much fun as Kung Fu Hustle, but it's much better...
Green Energy
Welcome to Hollywood in the 21st century, a time and place where a film doesn't need any fans to spawn a sequel.
Five summers ago,...
Carrie-on Baggage
I wish the Sex and the City movie had been a musical, with our four favorite fashion plates addressing their relationship problems by bursting...
Hebrew Hammer
In Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, the main character and his Jewish friends are huge fans of Steven Spielberg's Munich: "Every movie with Jews, we're...
Mixed Subjects
Transcribing an interview with Jeff Fraley and Harry Lynch proves to be hard work.
Interviewed by phone from their offices in Austin, they both talk...
“You Were Home”
While so much buzz has been building for that movie opening this week about the Cosmo- and stiletto heel-loving ladies from New York, The...
Aliens in America
Richard Jenkins is one of those actors you've probably seen several times without his name sticking in your memory.
He's 61, but his film career...
Indy Film
Let's get right to it: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is quite a bit of fun.
It falls short of total...
DNF
Here's why certain men of a certain age are huge fans of Speed Racer.
The 1960s Japanese cartoon show started airing on American television...
Riding in Cars With Boys
Recent movies as different as Danny Cannon's Goal!
The Dream Begins, Joe Menendez' Ladrón que roba a ladrón, and Patricia Riggen's Under the...
