POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Look, there’s masturbatory filmmaking, and then there’s Caveh Zahedi’s I Am a Sex Addict, which puts a whole new literal spin on the term. It gets big points for audacity and adventurousness and the filmmaker’s willingness to...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s such a warm and pleasant and human and humanist little film that it almost seems a tad rude to suggest that Quinceañera isn’t all it needs to be in order to be worthy of wholehearted praise and recommendation. The pieces are all in place,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Apparently M. Night Shyamalan doesn’t like film critics. He puts us explicitly on notice in his latest film, Lady in the Water, with a film-critic character who is held up as the object of some derision for his “presumption” that he...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Remember that year when Hollywood dealt us the competing giant-asteroids-are-coming-to-kill-us movies? It was 1998, and we all acted like this heralded some sort of, well, creative apocalypse'final and irrevocable proof that the movie industry was officially...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - When I first met him,” says costume designer Albert Wolsky about Ask the Dust star Colin Farrell, “he had long hair and was wearing those grungy jeans. After they took him into hair and makeup, and he put on the suit I’d made, he was...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Tickets for The Producers on Broadway while Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick were starring in it were something like $125'and that was if you could get them. The demand to see these two do Mel Brooks was obscene, so even if you didn’t blanch at...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - This is the one, after The Lord of the Rings, that'if you’re any kind of proper geek at all'you’ve been looking forward to with a mixture of glee and dread. So it is such a relief and a joy to report that it’s hard to imagine how much...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Grief, despondency, remorse, regrets and more regrets: It’s not exactly the holiday escape to the movies most people are looking for, but hey, it can’t all be giant apes and magical lions. In fact, better perhaps not to think about writer-director...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - So, this is like Chariots of Fire, right, but set on the subcontinent, and one guy’s a Hindu and his rival is a Muslim? No? Oh, then this is surely about that one Apache warrior who went over to the other side to become a legendary Western Union...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If you’re following the Academy Award buzz and all the attendant Hollywood-awards news, you may have heard that Rachel Weisz, who has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Constant Gardener, is flummoxed by...