I apologize for leaving my Cannes coverage somewhat unfinished. General fatigue combined with the post-festival distractions of Paris to put all film-related thoughts on the back burner for a week -- which frankly, wi...
The autumn leaves of red and gold bring with them loads and loads of new music releases. The summer concert season is a good cash injection for artists, but it's the fall -- into the holiday shopping season -- where m...
Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, David O. Russell, Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky, Joel and Ethan Coen, Peter Weir and Mike Leigh. On Jan. 25, when the nominations for best direct...
One of the things you'll notice is that I have a number of ties on my list. Each of them is, I think, a fair grouping of films that either work in similar ways or that tackle similar ideas from different directi...
Cowboy and Indian and Horse share a house. When Cowboy and Indian realize they've forgotten Horse's birthday, they decide to order bricks off the internet so they can build him an outdoor barbecue. They ma...
