POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If Timothy Treadwell hadn’t appeared on Letterman, if he hadn’t gained a measure of notoriety for his reckless conservationism before he was eaten by one of the Alaskan bears he dedicated his life to protecting, we might be tempted to believe...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Damn you, Joss Whedon! Damn you and your honesty and integrity and unwillingness to succumb to Hollywood bull and … You have no idea what I’m talking about unless you’re in the cult of the doomed TV series Firefly. And I honestly have no...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Be prepared to be baffled when you go to a Wong Kar-wai movie. Metaphors and similes seem woefully inadequate, but here goes: Nothing in the Hong Kong director’s films is packaged and segregated into the emotional TV dinner trays we’ve come...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It only takes the first few moments of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride to realize that the filmmaker is unquestionably in his element. Strangely stylized characters'all vertiginously angled noses and physics-defying hairdos'wander the streets of a vaguely...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The most memorable thing about Junebug’s baroque portrait of the Deep South isn’t the emotionally stunted family at its core, or the awkward interactions between that family and their worldly new in-law, or even the freaky racist paintings...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) didn’t ask to have his name drawn from the titular vessel in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He didn’t ask for the “honor” that obliges him to participate in a life-threatening magical competition...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If you’ve never taken a few moments to contemplate the motives of suicide bombers, hijackers and other pawns of terrorism, you’re missing out on one of our age’s most fascinating parlor games. I’ve played it while looking across...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Perhaps it speaks to the shortness of the human attention span. Or perhaps it just speaks to the shortness of my attention span. But nothing about a movie'except perhaps the words “directed by Simon Westâ€�'is guaranteed to put me off like the kind...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We must at least give Noah Baumbach credit for trying to make a film like a big boy. Wes Anderson, his sometime collaborator, seems content to while away a promising career in a neverland of adolescent curios and middle-school creative-writing-class stories...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Spoiler Alert: You should not read this column if you have never seen The Crying Game, The Sixth Sense, The Village or The Game. Now that that’s out of the way, maybe we can talk about something. It’s a minefield into which the contemporary...