Little Worlds

According to my wife, who has taken ballet lessons and danced en pointe at the Boston School of Ballet as well as at a school in San Francis...

As I write about the Coen brothers’ adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel True Grit , it is hard to set aside my deep emotional attachment to...

Until recently, my experience with the original Tron (1982) had been watching it once through on VHS and then showing my students the light...

Here is my contribution to the Spielberg Blogathon sponsored by Adam Zanzie at Icebox Movies and Ryan Kelly at Medfly Quarantine . Enjoy th...

Love and Other Drugs , directed by Edward Zwick, bored me more than any movie I’ve seen this year. Its insincere, manipulative use of Parkin...

As I did last year , apropos of my blog’s title, I hereby offer a tribute to the best in art direction for films released in 2010. As I sai...