CANNES - For artists now closing in on their thirtieth year of sustained filmmaking success, Joel and Ethan Coen still find an inordinate amount of inspiration in failure. From Barton Fink to Larry Gopnik to the Dude ...
A quick review of the "Doctor Who" season finale coming up just as soon as I retire and take up watercolors or beekeeping...
"The Name of the Doctor" provides closure to two ongoing plotlines ...
CANNES - After making her feature film debut with 2010's "Belle Epine," director Rebecca Zlotowski returns to Cannes with the compelling new drama "Grand Central." While Zlotowski benefits fr...
CANNES - Something's ailing Benicio Del Toro's title character in "Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)," but let's lay that to one side for now. More pressingly, what is up with Arnaud Desplechin? Th...
Roughly once per season I like to check in on The CW's "Nikita."
It's a show I continue to watch largely because it's on on Fridays where I don't have any DVR conflicts, which isn't really a very go...
CANNES - Nothing I've seen at Cannes so far -- not even the current Palme d'Or favorite, Hirokazu Kore-eda's button-cute parenthood drama "Like Father, Like Son" -- has, to my ear, pushed the end-credits cla...
CANNES - For Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi, following up the near-unanimous acclaim of his Oscar-winning 2011 film "A Separation" with a similarly articulate dramatic study of, well, separation was either th...
A review of "The Office" series finale coming up just as soon as I sell ceramic tile out of Newark...
"There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?" -Pamela Beasle...
A few quick thoughts on tonight's "Hannibal" — and other recent developments on the show — coming up just as soon as I take a hammer to my chimney...
Other end-of-season bits of work have go...
CANNES - Director Francois Ozon has made a career of exploring sexuality and sexual awakenings on the big screen, but his latest, "Jeune & Jolie" (Young and Beautiful), sadly falls short of his previous ...
