POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature, brilliantly captured the fashionable world of turn-of-the century society in New York. It was a world where social ambition and carefully proscribed class divisions prevailed. But...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Like so many parents, Naomi Silverstone is concerned about what her twin daughters are exposed to through the media. That’s why she and friend, Sylvia Nibley, formed a Utah chapter of the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media, a national...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Taking a cue from renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, Salt Lake City filmmaker JC Brady goes in search of another misunderstood and maligned animal: the cow. Brady’s short film, Wild Pasture, played at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Guiseppe Tornatore’s enchanting Cinema Paradiso delved into the youthful dreams of a boy who lived for the flickering images on the silver screen. In his latest film, Malena, the Italian director revisits the dreams and fantasies of adolescence...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Steven Soderbergh’s latest film is an unflinchingly realistic portrayal of a war that can’t be won. Traffic is an emotionally intense drama, made even more so by its pseudo-documentary filming style, which creates an immediacy so keen you...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Billy Bob Thornton, who co-wrote this screenplay with Tom Epperson, was aiming for a Southern gothic horror thriller. But don’t make the mistake of expecting much just because Thornton has a Sling Blade to his credit. His latest film is just badly...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We’ve heard about the endorphin enhancing properties of chocolate, but in Lasse Hallström’s sparkling new film based on Joanne Harris’ 1999 novel, it gains mystical status as a healing balm and a transforming elixir that unlocks...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I was too young during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 to realize exactly what was at stake or how close mankind came to annihilating itself. Roger Donaldson’s incredibly sobering and emotionally wrenching behind-the-scenes drama drives home the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Who hasn’t wondered about the path not chosen, about where you might have landed or what kind of life you might have carved out under different circumstances or given different choices? The notion is hardly original, nor, unfortunately, is Brett...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Still paying off that student loan? Need some seed capital for that pancakes-by-mail Internet company you cooked up? Just enjoy putting black bags on people’s heads and taking them for hikes in the mountains? Maybe the K&R business is for you....