The film “Moneyball” helps explain this year’s extraordinary story of the Oakland Athletics.
Even 85 years later, actress Clara Bow, the “It Girl,” still explodes off the screen.
Liberals appear to have won the media wars–or have they?
“Pretty Woman” captures the ideas and the spirit of Helen Gurley Brown, who died Monday.
“Sight and Sound’s: once-every-ten-years poll is out, and “Citizen Kane” is no longer #1.
“Dark Knight Rises” confirms the younger generation’s pessimism.
While an enjoyable romantic comedy set in Victorian times, the film “Hysteria” touches on issues raised by the GOP’s “war on women.”
Nora Ephron draw on Woody’s Allen’s “nervous comedies” to save romantic comedies.
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare had all the makings of a Hollywood thriller.
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The latest “Men in Black” films takes for granted a diverse and multicultural world, set in motion by the 1960′s.
Judy Dench has become our current go-to actress for dignified old age.
“Monsieur Lazar” is a film about real learning, which sometimes can only happen in spite of school regulations.
In “As It Is in Heaven,” a famous conductor travels back to his childhood town and helps a church choir find the music that is in and around them.
“The Hunger Games” captures how my students see the contemporary job situation.
The Pedro Almodovar film “Volver” explores the longing the love will prove more powerful than death.
The Oscar-winning Iranian film “Separation” builds complication upon complication as families wrestle with difficult conditions.
In movie allusions used to capture the presidential primaries, Santorum is Dorothy, Romney is Terminator 3, and Gingrich is Bruce Willis in “The Sixth Sense.”
The KKK, propelled into prominence by a cutting edge social medium, is ironically faltering because of its inability to keep up with social media.
“A Better Life” puts a human face on illegal immigrants, something the United States sorely needs.
“The Artist” is a feast of allusions for those who know and love Hollywood’s golden age.
Columnist Jonathan Chait compares the current battle between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for GOP voters to the love triangle in the Scorsese film “Casino.”
To run successfully against Obama, Mitt Romney may need to flipflop from Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” to Edward Lewis in “Pretty Woman.”
“Jane Austen Book Club” makes the point that great literature can in fact change your life.
Martin Scorcese’s “Hugo” pays homage to fantasist Georges Méliès and the history of the movies.
GOP members of the House were citing “Braveheart” in their recent battle with the Senate, but “It’s a Wonderful Life” is the movie we should be talking about at this time of year.
Watching movies at home makes them something other than movies.
The Oscar-winning film “In a Better World” explores how to respond to the world’s violence in an authentic and uncompromising way.
Judy Grahn sees our Hollywood stars as modern day Helen of Troys and explores their power over us.
The 1941 film “The Devil and Daniel Webster” is unsettling by how relevant to our current day economic crisis is its story of America selling its soul.
Akira Kurosaw’s magnificent film “Ikiru” reminds us, among other things, that when we give our lives to the betterment of our communities, we redeem our lives.
Sex without love, the subject of several sex comedies this past summer, was also an issue explored by poets and playwrights in the British Restoration.
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