POSTED // Mar 9,2012 - Maybe character studies of line-blurring cops are nothing new in popular culture; we’ve had our share of Bad Lieutenants and The Shields.

POSTED // Mar 2,2012 - “There’s more to this story than what’s on the page,” announces the titular character in Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (Danny DeVito) during the film’s proscenium prologue—and you can almost hear the desperation in his voice.

POSTED // Feb 28,2012 - In staging the U.S. premiere of Zorro: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre has accomplished the closest thing to putting a Hollywood summer blockbuster onto a theater stage.

POSTED // Feb 24,2012 - Kingdoms will fall and seas will boil before a significant portion of the American movie-going audience goes to see a subtitled Iranian film like Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-nominated A Separation.

POSTED // Feb 24,2012 - Plenty of movies let you know fairly quickly that they’re going to be excruciating. Far rarer is something that starts out excruciating, then becomes utterly fascinating.

POSTED // Feb 17,2012 - It has taken decades of watching and writing about movies, but This Means War might have finally helped me articulate what feels like a fundamental rule about would-be escapist entertainment:

POSTED // Feb 17,2012 - If your impression of animated features has been shaped entirely by the whiz-bang studio product of the CGI era, bring an open mind to The Secret World of Arrietty. That’s not the way Japan’s Studio Ghibli rolls.

POSTED // Feb 10,2012 - Before diving into the multifaceted characterizations and thorny metaphysics of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, this important disclaimer: I never saw the 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth. So

POSTED // Feb 6,2012 - It probably sounds like a cliché to say that Emily Pearson’s memoir Dancing With Crazy describes the kind of life that lands people on Geraldo.

POSTED // Feb 3,2012 - It has taken 15 years of attending, but I think I’m finally able to acknowledge a difficult truth: I don’t really know what makes any given Sundance Film Festival a “good” festival.