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Film Review: “Project Nim”
The Oscar-winning director of "Man on Wire" returns with a documentary that's in no way monkey business
Read More »Film Review: “The Human Centipede”
Horror movies, perhaps more than any other genre, have become ripe for redundancy. Blood-thirsty psychopath here, deadly virus outbreak there — you know the drill. This problem seems responsible for the latest school of
Read More »Film Review: “Still Bill”
Bill Withers released his last album in 1985. After a relatively brief but hit-filled career, he walked away. Frustrated by the efforts of the so-called “blaxperts” at Columbia Records to package him into something
Read More »No Concessions: Spike Jonze’s “Wild Things”
At long last, Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are arrives in theaters this weekend. Did Bob Cashill have a wild rumpus at his screening, or did he send Jonze to bed
Read More »No Concessions: The Value of “An Education”
Nick Hornby's been a busy man lately -- not only does he have a new book out, but he penned the screenplay for this coming-of-age drama, which is already earning Oscar buzz for star
Read More »Political Culture: Michael Moore’s “Capitalism,” a Don’t-Like-It-Very-Much Story
Michael Moore has a new movie out, and you might assume that a proud liberal like Jon Cummings might be filled with rapturous praise for it...but you'd be wrong
Read More »No Concessions: To “Hell” and Back with Sam Raimi
Some horror film directors unnerve us with little ripples of tension that unexpectedly crescendo into waves of terror. Sam Raimi is not one of those horror film directors. Pauline Kael once said that Mel
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