One man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art, "Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story" combines traditional documentary storytelling wit...
Maurice Sendak was not interested in being loved. His curmudgeonly persona became as much a part of his legend as his famed book, "Where the Wild Things Are." But loved he was. The death on Tuesday of the au...
NEW YORK (AP) — Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood.
"I like interesting people and kids are really interesting people,&quo...
Welcome to The Evening Read.
Well, Monday didn't happen, mainly because I had an early morning press event for the new James Wan/Leigh Whannell film "Insidious" at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. I d...
Many of the year's best moments, from both our top ten and our runners-up, are represented by the images you see here. Can you name all eleven of them?
Click on the numbers above to see the top ten movies...
Considering how shy newbie actor 12-year-old Max Records appears to be in person, director Spike Jonze may be even more talented than given credit for.
A remarkable 9-years-old at the time he shot "Wher...
I don't use this word lightly, but "Where The Wild Things Are" is an absolute masterpiece, and it's the finest offering from any Hollywood studio thus far this year.
It is a gorgeous, painful, heartfe...
To say "Where the Wild Things Are" has been a long time coming is an understatement. Director Spike Jonze began filming his adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's novel in 2006, but encountere...
MGM has had it's share of bad press recently as it struggles with cash-flow problems to its debtor before it releases a slew of new movies in 2010. Happily, a ray of sunshine hit the Century City based studio on Thurs...
Welcome to Film Nerd 2.0, an ongoing series in which I discuss parenting, media responsibility, and sharing my love of film with my now-four-year-old son Toshi.
Empathy is, in my opinion, one of the most essential th...
