Arts Beat Matt Distel's Exit Interview (03/29/06)

Red Dust Glory Tsotsi ushers in a new era for South African cinema (03/29/06)

Arts Beat Northside Artists Need Space (03/15/06)

Nonsense and Nonsensibility Director Michael Winterbottom makes a clever comedy out of an un-filmable 18th-century novel (03/15/06)

Bang, Pow, Hmmm Chancy V for Vendetta fails at becoming a thinking man's comic book movie (03/15/06)

Arts Beat Right Time for Healing (03/01/06)

Boy (Just Visiting) the Hood Music pushes aside the comedy in Dave Chappelle's feel good concert film (03/01/06)

Independent Spirit A new biography puts the spotlight on John Cassavetes, but which filmmakers are following in his footsteps? (03/01/06)

'I'm Like a Quilt' Folk artist Denise Burge pieces her life together as she goes (02/22/06)

Son of the Blackboard Jungle Adapting his novel Freedomland for the movies gives author Richard Price a chance to go home again (02/22/06)

Arts Beat Inside Story at the CAC (02/15/06)

Women on the Verge Freedomland is too noisy, while Imagine Me & You is a formulaic girl-meets-girl romance (02/15/06)

Behind Closed Doors Cache is Austrian director Michael Haneke's most powerful film to date (02/15/06)

Breaking Down Doors Is Brokeback Mountain the breakthrough for tolerance on the big screen? (02/08/06)

Snow Gets Its Close-Up Sundance Film Festival madness means happy endings and sad-sack stories on Awards Night (02/01/06)

Everyone a Star The digital revolution means more movies are being made in more places, but the desire to be seen and sold still leads to Sundance (01/25/06)

Arts Beat A Safe Place for Artists? (01/25/06)

The Revolution Is Here Steven Soderbergh attempts an industry shift with his new film Bubble (01/25/06)

Divine Interventions The New World is a love story for the ages (01/18/06)

Arts Beat Off the Wall (01/11/06)

Less Is More In the age of blockbusters, B-movie maven Roger Corman survives (01/11/06)

Fractured Fairy Tale Swordfights trump love in passionless Tristan & Isolde (01/11/06)

Arts Beat Believing in Something Better (12/28/05)

Big Screen's Best CityBeat film writers present their 2005 Top 10 lists (12/28/05)

Does Your Mother Know? Sarah Silverman combines an angelic face and foul mouth with success (12/28/05)

Critical Shortage Area film critics are a dying breed (12/21/05)

Bloody Patriotism Steven Spielberg tells a thrilling espionage tale with Munich (12/21/05)

Rest of a Salesman Pawnbroker Will Richshafer, the 'poor man's banker,' gets ready to close shop for the last time (12/14/05)

Arts Beat Changing the Signs (12/14/05)

Family Affair Noah Baumbach mines his own life for the acclaimed family drama The Squid and the Whale (12/14/05)

Jungle Boogie Peter Jackson's King Kong is the most extravagant B movie in history (12/14/05)

Black Gold, Blacker Hearts George Clooney is the social conscience of the sweeping Syriana (12/07/05)

Arts Beat The New Negro Vogue (11/30/05)

God Only Knows Terrorists or martyrs? Paradise Now considers the lives of two suicide bombers (11/23/05)

Arts Beat Saving Ohio River Grass (11/16/05)

Isn't It Romantic? Period details mean a lot when it comes to adapting Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (11/09/05)

Cellophane Kings Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr. make Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang bearable (11/09/05)

Arts Beat Why Cincinnati Builds (11/02/05)

Wild and Crazy for Love Steve Martin puts heartbreak above laughs in bittersweet Shopgirl (11/02/05)

Drawing Blood In Cold Blood broke Truman Capote; will a movie based on his experience do the same for its lead actor and director? (10/26/05)

Just Bawl for God's Sake Cynics be damned -- movie sentimentality is a leading theme this fall (10/26/05)

The Happy Avenger Antonio Banderas is a classic swashbuckler in Legend of Zorro (10/26/05)

Arts Beat Quiet Censorship (10/19/05)

The Big Chill Clooney emphasizes the quieter moments in his McCarthyism drama Good Night, and Good Luck (10/19/05)

Thumbs Up Artist Mike Mills adds filmmaking to his already impressive resume with Thumbsucker (10/12/05)

Arts Beat Lights Out at Mockbee (10/05/05)

A Shit Brown World First-time filmmaker Liev Schreiber discusses his adaptation of Everything Is Illuminated (10/05/05)

Kings and Queen of Comedy Wallace & Gromit deliver laughs aplenty, while Cameron Diaz misses with In Her Shoes (10/05/05)

Clay Queen Helena Bonham Carter shows her diversity with Corpse Bride and Wallace & Gromit (09/28/05)

Arts Beat Bang, Bang USA (09/21/05)

'Round the Clock Festival madness means seeing everything before separating the good films from the bad (09/21/05)

Shoot the Filmmakers Lord of War and Paradise Now shine a light on the dark side of human nature (09/21/05)

Cool Flicks A highly subjective list of fall films that look to be very cool (09/14/05)

Right Place, Wrong Time Love is the answer behind epic Brokeback Mountain (09/14/05)

Arts Beat Roadside Art (09/07/05)

Wanted: Surprises The best summer movies are the ones that come out of nowhere (09/07/05)

Honoring of Loves Past Ralph Fiennes shines as the troubled hero in The Constant Gardener (08/31/05)

A Sound of Thunder Arts Consortium members meet to demand change at the area's leading African-American arts center (08/31/05)

Arts Beat Brothers Grimmer (08/24/05)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The filthiest joke in showbiz gets the royal treatment in The Aristocrats (08/24/05)

Love Tears Us Apart Bill Murray fuses perfectly with Jim Jarmusch's deadpan style in the stellar Broken Flowers (08/17/05)

Arts Beat Symphony in Anger (08/10/05)

A Factory For Art The Art Academy of Cincinnati Bets It's Future On An Old Building and On Over-The-Rhine (08/03/05)

Truly, Madly, Lewdly Wedding Crashers is making real movie romance a thing of the past (08/03/05)

Beautiful Fascination Erotic, witty My Summer of Love is a summertime gem worth discovering (08/03/05)

Arts Beat Nights at the Opera (07/27/05)

Ordinary People Happy Endings is a sloppy ensemble drama; Murderball is the summer's best superhero tale (07/27/05)

Arts Beat John Q Public's Art (07/20/05)

Monday Morning Fever After wowing Sundance audiences, Hustle & Flow looks to become a summertime hit (07/20/05)

Arts Beat Downtown's Square Deal (07/06/05)

Cinema's Great Dark Hope Three DVDs celebrate Hungarian master Bela Tarr (07/06/05)

Arts Beat Cincinnati's Mod Squad (06/29/05)

Apocalypse Now Competent Tom Cruise can't save a lumbering War of the Worlds (06/29/05)

Straight Out of Flushing Director Alice Wu and costars Michelle Krusiec and Lynn Chen break out with Saving Face (06/29/05)

Arts Beat Eastside's Sleeping Giant (06/22/05)

Man Behind the Mask Batman Begins exceeds expectations via Christian Bale's standout performance (06/15/05)

Arts Beat In the Fringe Crowd (06/08/05)

Horror Internationalist Frenchman Alexandre Aja melds classic American horror with European sensiblities in High Tension (06/08/05)

Arts Beat Weston Gallery (06/01/05)

Macho Man vs. Z-Boys Ron Howard gets sentimental yet again, while Lords of Dogtown is the surprise hit of the summer (06/01/05)

The Lads Director Matthew Vaughn and star Daniel Craig attract plenty of attention with their crime drama Layer Cake (06/01/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD DVD Reviews of Hoop. Moog and more... (06/01/05)

Arts Beat Conservative Savages at the PBS Gates (05/25/05)

Singing a Looney Tune DreamWorks supplants Disney as king of cartoon culture by taking an edgier approach (05/25/05)

Groove Tube Z Channel director Xan Cassavetes remembers an influencial Los Angeles cable channel (05/25/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD DVD reviews of Samaritan Girl, Cheers and More... (05/25/05)

Man Out of Time Bolotin works on a tool he never used before, a computer. (05/18/05)

The Empire Strikes Out Revenge of the Sith brings the Star Wars saga to an anti-climactic close (05/18/05)

Arts Beat Hearts, Minds & Armor (05/11/05)

Off the Shelf Jane Fonda is the best thing about predictable Monster-in-Law; Mindhunters borrows badly from Agatha Christie (05/11/05)

Arts Beat Garage Gallery Springs up in Over-the-Rhine (05/04/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The Last Silly Waltz (05/04/05)

Arts Beat Political Art for the Converted (04/27/05)

Divine Intervention Actor Jim Caviezel takes a trip to God's country (04/27/05)

The Gardener's Story Anthony LaPaglia shines as the head of a troubled family in Winter Solstice (04/27/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD (04/27/05)

Anything Goes Stephen Chow looks to conquer America with Kung Fu Hustle (04/20/05)

Laughing at Herself Dear Frankie actress Emily Mortimer is all jokes when it comes to self-promotion (04/20/05)

Sean Penn on Holiday The Interpreter is forgettable fluff (04/20/05)

Arts Beat Art in Play in Walnut Hills (04/13/05)

Divine Comedy Director Danny Boyle shows his inner child with the lively fantasy Millions (04/13/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The Mirror (04/13/05)

Arts Beat Sin Cities (04/06/05)

Laughs, Inc. Woody Allen stumbles again, while the Farrelly brothers get romantic (04/06/05)

The Quiet Man Kevin Bacon gives the most powerful performance of his career in The Woodsman (04/06/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Moloch (04/06/05)

Arts Beat Shark Attack or Indecency Attack? (03/30/05)

Beautiful Losers Sin City looks like a classic film noir, but its story lacks punch (03/30/05)

Outside/Inside Art Myth of the self-taught artist grows with In the Realms of the Unreal (03/30/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Blue Vinyl (03/30/05)

Life During Wartime Gunner Palace director Michael Tucker shows an Iraqi War seldom seen on the nightly news (03/23/05)

Tales of Tolerance Paper Clips is a story of red-state tolerance; Gunner Palace lets the soldiers show the real Iraq (03/23/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Never Grow Up (03/23/05)

Arts Beat Surviving Taft (03/16/05)

Industrial Light & Magic While American cartoons focus on gags, Japanese anime Steamboy is all about adventure (03/16/05)

Film's Humble Poet Hirokazu Kore-eda's reputation as Japan's greatest working filmmaker grows with Nobody Knows (03/16/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD A Brighter Lust (03/16/05)

Arts Beat A Second Death? (03/09/05)

What the Children Taught Us An amazing year continues for Born into Brothels filmmakers (03/09/05)

Reel Answer Shane Carruth on making a movie for $7,000 (03/09/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Happenstance (03/09/05)

Arts Beat One Good O-T-R Night Out (03/02/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Incident at Lock Ness (03/02/05)

Oh ... Pedro Bad Education is Pedro Almodovar's most mainstream drama; emotions empower The Sea Inside (02/23/05)

Tears for Scares Alejandro Amenábar and Javier Bardem team up for the melodrama The Sea Inside (02/23/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Stranger Than Paraiso (02/23/05)

Arts Beat For Love and Money (02/16/05)

L.A. Stories The City of Angels glitters in The Aviator, but Los Angeles Plays Itself focuses on its underbelly (02/16/05)

Devil Dull Keanu Reeves returns to his wooden ways as the sullen demon fighter at the center of Constantine (02/16/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Oh Yeah (02/16/05)

Reel Answer: Hotel Rwanda director Terry George on history's lessons (02/16/05)

Arts Beat Does Your Mother Know? (02/09/05)

Boxcar Marty Martin Scorsese might receive a Best Directing Oscar for The Aviator, but Boxcar Bertha is the more honest film (02/09/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The Girl from Salta (02/09/05)

Arts Beat Sympathy for the Devils (02/02/05)

Happy Sundance Ending Marcos Siega expected his high school comedy Pretty Persuasion to be the hit of Sundance (02/02/05)

The Sundance Films Most Likely Sundance Film Festival (02/02/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Anatomy of Hell (02/02/05)

Pop-Up Sundance Interested in the latest festival happenings? Here's a guide (01/26/05)

SUNDANCE TO AMERICA Suck On This (01/26/05)

Arts Beat The Price of Art (01/19/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Voyage in Time (01/19/05)

Arts Beat New Year, New Traditions (01/12/05)

Don Cheadle is Top Dog Hotel Rwanda brings attention to the acclaimed character actor (01/12/05)

January Rebound Don Cheadle shines in Hotel Rwanda; House of Flying Daggers is romantic and exciting (01/12/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Tough Love (01/12/05)

Chasing Phantoms Celebrated director Tsaï Ming-liang pays homage to the movies with Good Bye, Dragon Inn (01/05/05)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Love in Unlikely Places (01/05/05)

Arts Beat The good, bad and ludicrous make for another tumultuous year in the Cincinnati arts (12/29/04)

Beyond the Typical Kevin Spacey is a singing and dancing maniac in Beyond the Sea (12/29/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Socially Conscious Martial Arts (12/29/04)

Look Away Films like A Hole in My Heart and Anatomy of Hell are difficult to watch in their entirety, but they still need to be seen (12/22/04)

From China With Love Actress Zhang Ziyi's fame keeps growing with House of Flying Daggers (12/22/04)

Arts Beat When Tony Met Pat (12/22/04)

Macho Men (and Women) The Aviator soars, while Phantom of the Opera stumbles into syrupy clutter (12/22/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Conspiracy Déjà vu (12/22/04)

Arts Beat Jim Tarbell, Half-Off Arts Czar (12/15/04)

All Scares Big and Small Lemony Snicket creeps out the young; Machinist frightens the old (12/15/04)

Hey, Huckleberry Filmmaker David Gordon Green remains the arty outsider with Undertow (12/15/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Jolly Holiday (12/15/04)

Mad Love New DVD shows David Lynch's Wild at Heart to be as edgy and erotic as ever (12/08/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Woman on the Verge (12/08/04)

Arts Beat Desperately Seeking... (12/01/04)

Some New Tricks Closer is a passionate relationship drama; Oliver Stone fumbles Alexander (12/01/04)

Woman on Top Annette Bening stays in the spotlight (and enters the Oscar race) with Being Julia (12/01/04)

Reel Answer Betsy Chasse is a What tHe #$*! (Bleep) director and a believer (12/01/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Orson Welles' Lost Brazilian Film (12/01/04)

Arts Beat Freedom Center Offers Help to Black Theatre Group (11/24/04)

Life's Brighter Side After tales of death and despair, Marc Forster spends time with Peter Pan in Finding Neverland (11/24/04)

Michael Moore vs. Santa Claus The world famous filmmaker provocateur and Kris Kringle might share big bellies, but they see the world differently (11/24/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD (11/24/04)

Arts Beat Almost Blue (11/17/04)

Sad Sack Chronicles Paul Giamatti gives the performance of a lifetime in Sideways (11/17/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The Saddest Music in the World (11/17/04)

Reel Answer Local filmmaker Craig Highberger on Jackie Curtis (11/17/04)

Exile on Seventh Street (Chronicling the city's invisible people) (11/10/04)

CityBeaters The Ups and Downs of "Alternative" Work (11/10/04)

The Most Beautiful Girl Onstage: Billy Crudup For an actor known for eclectic roles, donning a dress in Stage Beauty make sense (11/10/04)

Hey, Lucy! Rene Zellweger shines in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (11/10/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Jesus of Montréal (11/10/04)

Sex and the Single Boy Handsome, charismatic Jude Law holds Alfie together (11/03/04)

China's Nicole Kidman Actress Gong Li looks ahead with Zhou Yu's Train (11/03/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Lost Boys of Sudan (11/03/04)

Risk -- and How to Get It Birth is a laughable melodrama; Ray shines solely on Jamie Foxx's performance (10/27/04)

Movie Love Affair A new DVD set celebrates one of the most thrilling directors, Wong Kar-wai (10/27/04)

Reel Answer Yes Men leader Andy Bichlbaum on his "penis" suit (10/27/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD (10/27/04)

Laughter and Nothingness Huckabees director David O. Russell strives for something different, but still fails (10/20/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD (10/20/04)

Arts Beat Opera Adds the Numbers (10/13/04)

The Foreigner: Tadanobu Asano Already a celebrity in his native Japan, Tadanobu Asano looks to build his U.S. audience with Zatoichi (10/13/04)

Reel Answer Motorcycle Diaries actor Rodrigo de la Serna on "Latin spirit" (10/13/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Bush's Brain (10/13/04)

Arts Beat To Muni and the Good Life (10/06/04)

Rebel Cinema After a string of successful hot topic documentaries, political dramas come to the forefront (10/06/04)

Sentimental Journey The Motorcycle Diaries matches the myth of 'Che' Guevara with heart, soul and sentimentality (10/06/04)

Mixed Variety Pack Troublemaker Lars von Trier turns the camera on himself and his mentor for The Five Obstructions (10/06/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Deadline (10/06/04)

Arts Beat King of Swing (09/29/04)

A Hero's Journey Going Upriver director George Butler celebrates the anti-Vietnam War activism of John Kerry (09/29/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Rivers and Tides (09/29/04)

Time of Discovery Finding something new, like the Australian film Somersault, makes the Toronto Festival worthwhile (09/22/04)

24-Hour Filmmaker Winterbottom shows his versatility with the sci-fi drama Code 46 (09/22/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Coffee and Cigarettes (09/22/04)

Cool Like That Fall films promise adult characters and explosion-free stories (09/15/04)

Arts Beat Old Bait and Switch (09/15/04)

Two Against the World Director Zhang Yimou and actress Zhang Ziyi conquer hearts and minds with House of Flying Daggers (09/15/04)

Reel Answer Silver City Director John Sayles on 'liberal' Hollywood (09/15/04)

Back Behind the Counter After 10 years, Clerks shows how much has changed with indie film (09/08/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Japan's Public Enemies (09/08/04)

Arts Beat Wanted: Arts Protesters (09/01/04)

Yawn-Yawn Sisterhood Dull Vanity Fair strips the unstoppable Becky Sharp bare (09/01/04)

Kill the Laughs How did politics become summer's comedy king? (09/01/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Sada (09/01/04)

Arts Beat Take Us to the River Grass (08/25/04)

Heroic Actor Hong Kong star Donnie Yen looks to America with costume epic Hero (08/25/04)

Ghosts of Movies Past We Don't Live Here Anymore mishandles short stories, Exorcist: The Beginning offers few scares (08/25/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD When the Mountains Tremble (08/25/04)

Arts Beat Every Freedom Picture Tells a Story (08/18/04)

Jersey Shores and Beyond Open Water offers cold chills; Garden State mixes comedy and drama aimlessly (08/18/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Blind Shaft (08/18/04)

In the Company of Men Grim I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and heartfelt A Home at End of the World are welcome alternatives (08/11/04)

A Home Behind the Camera Stage director Michael Mayer breaks out with A Home at the End of the World (08/11/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD This Woman's World (08/11/04)

Arts Beat Second Chance City

(08/04/04)

Been There, Seen That The Village lacks originality; Brittany Murphy sputters in Little Black Book (08/04/04)

The Director Who Came In From The Cold Mike Hodges is the comeback kid with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (08/04/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD I spy a movie (08/04/04)

Cutting Edge Censorship at the Esquire Theatre just another chapter in Cincinnati's history (07/28/04)

Spy vs. Spy Manchurian Candidate soars with Denzel Washington; Matt Damon sizzles in Bourne Supremacy (07/28/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Here come the Thunderbirds (07/28/04)

Arts Beat All Along the Church Tower

(07/21/04)

Timeless Conspiracy Tale Before its Hollywood remake, Manchurian Candidate returns on DVD (07/21/04)

Arts Beat Finding the Front Door (07/14/04)

Brief Encounters Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunite with director Richard Linklater for soulful Before Sunset (07/14/04)

Hey, Napoleon! The summer's new, new comedy belongs to a teenage underdog named Napoleon Dynamite (07/14/04)

Arts Beat Buying off the Liberal Media

(07/07/04)

Golden Boys, Young & Old Robert Redford could be a role model for Notebook star Ryan Gosling (07/07/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Take Care of My Cat (07/07/04)

Bigger Than Christ? Fahrenheit 9/11 is the liberals' Passion of the Christ (06/30/04)

Heartfelt Hero Its believable characters make Spider-Man 2 dazzling (06/30/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Cold Mountain (06/30/04)

Arts Beat Bold Is Beautiful at the Opera (06/23/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Neil Young's Greendale (06/23/04)

Women on Top Nicole Kidman works hard in Stepford Wives; Jehane Noujaim makes her mark with Control Room (06/16/04)

Looking at War From Both Sides Jehane Noujaim takes a fair look at the Iraq War with Control Room (06/16/04)

Reel Answer Guy Maddin on his latest movie, The Saddest Music (06/16/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Extraordinary survival story (06/16/04)

Arts Beat Tony and Baloney (06/09/04)

The Road Home Nathaniel Kahn's emotional journey of discovery brings My Architect alive (06/09/04)

Whatever Happened to Counter Programming? After May's lousy blockbusters, June's releases offer hope for film-starved adults (06/09/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Analyzing The President's Analyst (06/09/04)

Must-See Movies Separating the hype from the hope this summer (06/02/04)

Arts Beat Like the Cicadas, Kim Humphries Returns (06/02/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Two short films - one on love, one on killing (06/02/04)

Onscreen Politics Latest documentaries break out of cinemas to make headlines (05/26/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Bruce Campbell convincingly turns Elvis into a mummy-fighting hero (05/26/04)

Reel Answer Bubba Ho-Tep's Don Coscarelli on horror's comeback (05/26/04)

Arts Beat What Makes Jimmy Run? (05/19/04)

Bold, Brave and Green Super Size Me fascinates; Troy loses steam; Shrek 2 is more of the same (05/19/04)

They Shoot Horses (Men, Too) New DVD celebrates Sergio Leone's spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (05/19/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Disney goes to war in its animation (05/19/04)

Reel Answer Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock on losing weight (05/19/04)

Arts Beat The Last Arts Consortium Revival

(05/12/04)

The Iliad Connection Director Wolfgang Petersen adapts Homer's poems into a single film; here's a guide (05/12/04)

Map the Human Heart Russian drama The Return is intimate, dark and intense, but Israeli melodrama Broken Wings stumbles (05/12/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Circle of Deceit captures the hopelessness of war (05/12/04)

Monsters During Wartime Can Dracula, Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster generate more scares than the nightly news? (05/05/04)

Hard Comedy Ben Stiller and Jack Black look bad in Barry Levinson's Envy (05/05/04)

Reel Answer: Nicole Kidman on Dogville director Lars von Trier (05/05/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD (05/05/04)

Arts Beat Now That the Museum Center Has Your Money... (04/28/04)

American Girls Lindsay Lohan mines laughs in Mean Girls, and Nicole Kidman delivers heartache in Dogville (04/28/04)

Before 'American Splendor' Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini told the story of a Hollywood restaurant before tackling comic book writer Harvey Pekar (04/28/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Kids in the Hall stay in the picture (04/28/04)

Arts Beat A Taste of Quivid (04/21/04)

Sugar and Spice Uma Thuman is a cool killer in Kill Bill Vol. 2, Jennifer Garner lays on the girlish charms in 13 Going On 30 (04/21/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Russell Crowe is master and commander of the high seas (04/21/04)

Miss Firecracker Toni Collette returns to comedy with Connie and Carla (04/14/04)

Super-Sized vs. Intimate Everybody suffers at The Alamo, but The United States of Leland brings out the best in its cast (04/14/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Dog Days scores with few but honest words and sleek camerawork (04/14/04)

Arts Beat Paris Diary (04/07/04)

Time Regained Releases of La Truite and Time Without Pity celebrate the career of Joseph Losey (04/07/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Doggy Poo steps into a pile of Zen (04/07/04)

Arts Beat Queen of Bricks (03/31/04)

Where Are the Laughs? Despite their comic potential, The Ladykillers and The Prince & Me are letdowns (03/31/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Shattered Glass breaks down reporter's misdeeds (03/31/04)

Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Matthew Barney's extravagant Cremaster cycle breaks boundaries (03/24/04)

Kabul Homecoming Osama director Siddiq Barmak restarts Afghan film industry (03/24/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Robert Downey Jr. solves The Singing Detective (03/24/04)

Arts Beat Downsized Activism (03/17/04)

Electric Kool-Aid Comedy A subdued Jim Carrey means no laughs in Spotless Mind (03/17/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD DVD release of The Ten Commandments doesn't rank a 10 (03/17/04)

Arts Beat ArtSpike Seeking Rich Arts Lovers (03/10/04)

History Repeats Itself After three previous nominations, Denys Arcand wins Oscar for Barbarian Invasions (03/10/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Decasia is video poetry using crumbling film fragments (03/10/04)

Arts Beat Coming to Life (03/03/04)

They Live For Scandal Bertolucci defends the sexuality in The Dreamers (03/03/04)

Dreamers Bertolucci's best film in years (03/03/04)

Blood and Sandals Gibson's Passion of the Christ is timely, earthly and emotional (02/25/04)

Fall of the House of Indie Tell-all book, Down and Dirty Pictures, misses its target (02/25/04)

Reel Answer Oscar Nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo on activist acting (02/25/04)

Arts Beat Good Nude vs. Bad Nude (02/18/04)

They Lost It at the Movies The Dreamers is Bertolucci's best film in years (02/18/04)

Reel Answer Michael Pitt on baring everything in The Dreamers (02/18/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Lost in Translation finds it way (02/18/04)

Arts Beat TV and/or Politics (02/11/04)

Book Club Author and director unite on House of Sand and Fog (02/11/04)

Beyond Copacabana Fernando Meirelles receives Oscar acclaim with City of God (02/11/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Val Kilmer is a wonder in Wonderland (02/11/04)

Arts Beat Keep Enemies Closer (02/04/04)

Sexy Beast A bare William H. Macy creates controversy for The Cooler (02/04/04)

Laughs du jour Triplets of Belleville is artful, audacious animated comedy (02/04/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Kinji Fukasaku delves into Japan's jungle (02/04/04)

A Sundance Primer The unlikeliest of homemade films wins a Sundance jury prize, restoring some shine to the aging festival (01/28/04)

Oscar Bound: Naomi Watts Actress reaches the pinnacle of acclaim with 21 Grams (01/28/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD It's a very, merry, unbirthday for 'Alice in Wonderland' (01/28/04)

Arts Beat Garage or Opportunity? (01/21/04)

The Children's Hour A new film about Calcutta's red light district makes a lasting impact on Sundance audiences (01/21/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Cabin Fever breaks out some contagious fun (01/21/04)

Always an Audience Brendan Gleeson shifts from teaching to acting (01/14/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Sun Ra shines on DVD (01/14/04)

Arts Beat Looking Ahead, Soberly (01/07/04)

Don't Look Back House of Sand and Fog brings more acclaim to Jennifer Connelly, an actress who's paid her dues (01/07/04)

Pictures Worth Thousands of Words Director Tim Burton reaches for the heartstrings in Big Fish (01/07/04)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Cure is the source of great frights (01/07/04)

Arts Beat Bats for Departing Contestants (12/31/03)

Top of the Charts CityBeat critics look back at the 2003's best movies (12/31/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD 2003: The Films Are Everything (12/31/03)

Arts Beat Heathens in the Attic (12/24/03)

Heartfelt Trilogy House of Sand and Fog, Cold Mountain and 21 Grams close out the year brilliantly (12/24/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Years later, 'Escape from New York' provides a welcome escape (12/24/03)

Year in Film & Music: Beware the Big Foot The business of movies continues to overshadow the films themselves (12/17/03)

Monster Under the Tree Alien Quadrilogy contains lifetime worth of nightmares (12/17/03)

King's Ransom Return of the King brings landmark trilogy to a rousing finish (12/17/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Gigantic explores the Giants of the music world (12/17/03)

Arts Beat Golden View in the West End

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The First Samurai Tom Cruise's samurai heroics make way for Zatoichi (12/10/03)

Reel Answer Comedian Billy Connolly on acting, seriously (12/10/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Assassination Tango dances with the movie-making spirit of the ’70s (12/10/03)

Zen There, Done That Tom Cruise is comically melodramatic in The Last Samurai (12/03/03)

Stop the Presses Shattered Glass looks disapprovingly on American journalism (12/03/03)

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Arts Beat In Praise of Thom Collins and Boxes (11/25/03)

The Popcorn King Despite a trail of blockbusters, Timeline director Richard Donner still seeks respect (11/25/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Wonderment takes off in 'Winged Migration' and 'X2' (11/25/03)

Arts Beat Termite Artist (11/19/03)

Originator of Truth: Bob Drew DVD releases of Primary and Crisis celebrate cinéma vérité (11/19/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD 'Once Upon a Time in the West' there was more than horses and boots (11/19/03)

The Art of Lying Moviemaking magic often depends on and builds from lies (11/12/03)

Being Nicole Maintaining the mystery of being a superstar (11/12/03)

Year of Living Famously Actress Patricia Clarkson enjoys a career renaissance (11/12/03)

Reel Answer Singing Detective director Keith Gordon on Robert Downey Jr. (11/12/03)

Arts Beat On the Unit 2 Road Show (11/05/03)

Hearts and Body Blows Katie Holmes sparkles in Pieces of April while The Matrix Revolutions is an action letdown (11/05/03)

Ms. Auteur Lynne Ramsay saves European art film with Morvern Callar (11/05/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Yasujiro Ozu challenges audiences with his Tokyo Story (11/05/03)

In the Bedroom A sexually explicit Meg Ryan attracts attention to In the Cut (10/29/03)

Girl Trouble In the Cut and Sylvia fail Meg Ryan and Gwyneth Paltrow (10/29/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The time to be scared is now with 28 Days Later (10/29/03)

Arts Beat With Friends Like These ... (10/22/03)

Trouble in Mind Val Kilmer is the damaged soul in Wonderland (10/22/03)

Action Speaks Louder Than Words Indiana Jones' matinee spirit is preserved via DVD (10/22/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Peter Weir handles a bleak future in The Cars That Ate Paris (10/22/03)

Arts Beat Todd's Tattoo (10/15/03)

The Truth Is Out There Veronica Guerin and Runaway Jury showcase Blanchett and Cusack at their best (10/15/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Cronos delivers a timely and bloody valentine (10/15/03)

The Tao of Jack Black School of Rock puts the comic actor in a good place (10/08/03)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill is bloody, brilliant Asian pop art (10/08/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD DVD feels the love tonight with the two-disc release of The Lion King (10/08/03)

Boy, You'll Be a Lounge Lizard Soon Alcohol has lubricated many rites of passage (10/01/03)

Arts Beat The Art of Walking Away (10/01/03)

Bittersweet Blues of Film Director Carl Franklin wants Out of Time to be colorblind (10/01/03)

Reel Answer Spanish Actor Javier Bardem (10/01/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD A Decade Under the Influence is an intoxicating look at film (10/01/03)

Arts Beat Think Pink (09/24/03)

Middle-Aged Crazy Bill Murray dazzles as an unhappy actor in Lost in Translation (09/24/03)

Tough Gal At Last Kate Beckinsale ditches period dramas for Underworld (09/24/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Murderous Maids cleans up (09/24/03)

This Women's World Edgy female performances are the highlight of Toronto 2003 (09/17/03)

Little Women Catherine Hardwicke shows the difficult lives of teenage girls in Thirteen (09/17/03)

Wild Things About Teenage Girls Thirteen is a magic number for coming-of-age film (09/17/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Sam Rockwell successfully delves into Chuck Barris' dangerous mind (09/17/03)

An American Tale Filmmaker Gus Van Sant faces controversy over his Columbine-inspired drama, Elephant (09/10/03)

Straight Out of Cleveland American Splendor celebrates cult comic writer Harvey Pekar (09/10/03)

Ordinary Hero American Splendor one of the more original dramas in recent memory (09/10/03)

Arts Beat Thomas Condon Without the Taboos (09/03/03)

In the Name of the Filmmaker Kieslowski's The Decalogue finally arrives on video (09/03/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Eighties teen comedies are always The Sure Thing (09/03/03)

Lost in Space Supporters of alternative arts spaces -- from Laura Hollis to Ed Stern -- try to weather the tough times (08/27/03)

Surviving Blockbusters Summertime blahs bring fall hope (08/27/03)

Family Affairs Capturing the Friedmans director brings his film to the public (08/27/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The Good Thief doesn't rob viewers blind (08/27/03)

Arts Beat The Road to Experimentation Goes Through Columbus (08/20/03)

Americans in Paris Le Divorce is a lulling Merchant-Ivory movie postcard (08/20/03)

Stage Struck Filmmaker Todd Graff relives his teenage years with his musical Camp (08/20/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Bob Fosse was All That Jazz (08/20/03)

Arts Beat Mark Fox's Farewell Bat (08/13/03)

Grim Fairy Tale Audrey Tautou shows her solemn side in Dirty Pretty Things (08/13/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Peter Bogdanovich is over the Paper Moon (08/13/03)

Coming Attractions (08/06/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The Pornographers (08/06/03)

Arts Beat Newport Without Artery (07/30/03)

They Came From Paris French filmmakers François Ozon and Gaspar Noé enjoy breakout status (07/30/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Solaris (07/30/03)

Parisian Siren Ludivine Sagnier's sultry lead performance brings Swimming Pool to life (07/23/03)

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Arts Beat In Search of the Stepford Wives (07/16/03)

Kentucky Fried Movies Race is Hollywood's choice gag of the moment (07/16/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Life is Beautiful: Two Films by Ermanno Olmi (07/16/03)

Arts Beat Condon's Newfound Value (07/09/03)

Crimson Pirates Johnny Depp is laugh-out-loud funny in Pirates of the Caribbean (07/09/03)

Shoot the Director Filmmaking reality collides with fantasy in the enthralling Lost in La Mancha (07/09/03)

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Arts Beat Tide Turns for Cincinnati Opera (07/02/03)

Blonde Ambitions Female stars break free of lackluster Blonde 2 and Terminator 3 (07/02/03)

Political Projections Today's patriotic thrillers are a far cry from the '70s cynical thrillers (07/02/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Gangs Of New York rumbles onto DVD (07/02/03)

Arts Beat The Great Art Disconnect (06/25/03)

Pint-Sized vs. Gigantic Whale Rider trumps Hulk in heroics (06/25/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD German director goes for a knock-out with Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (06/25/03)

Teach Me to Twist Cincinnati's most significant young artists credit Elder High School teacher Bob Beemon as their inspiration (06/18/03)

Love Stories Man Without a Past dazzles while Alex & Emma stumbles (06/18/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD It's happiness for fans of Todd Solondz (06/18/03)

Faces of Color(s) 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Business of Fancydancing celebrate American diversity (06/11/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Julie Taymor paints quite a picture with Frida (06/11/03)

A Neverending Story A year after its Sundance debut, Karen Moncrieff's Blue Car finally hits theaters (06/04/03)

Arts Beat The CAC Comes Alive (06/04/03)

From Paris With Irony Two early films from François Ozon confirm his world-class status (06/04/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Jerry Seinfeld stands up in Comedian (06/04/03)

Killing Mapplethorpe's Ghost For better or worse (05/28/03)

High, Low and the Middle Lars von Trier's Medea and The Italian Job offer the best of both movie worlds (05/28/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD German films deserve a coup de grâce instead of a shut-out (05/28/03)

Heartthrob to Auteur Matt Dillon finds happiness behind the camera (05/21/03)

Arts Beat Summer of Loving (Art): Festival of the New (05/21/03)

New Millennium Love Neil LaBute updates Pygmalion into the brutal The Shape of Things (05/21/03)

Adult Pleasures In a season of blockbusters, The Shape of Things is a counter-programming oasis (05/21/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Documentarian Robert J. Flaherty navigates the Louisiana Bayou and Ireland's Aran Islands (05/21/03)

Arts Beat Hipness Returns to the Cincinnati Art Museum (05/14/03)

The New, New Action Matrix Reloaded delivers eye-popping effects and a nonsensical story (05/14/03)

At Home, Behind the Camera John Malkovich begins a new career directing The Dancer Upstairs (05/14/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Israel's Amos Gitai is a filmmaker of conscience (05/14/03)

My Wife's Wife CityBeat film editor flips the script (05/07/03)

Arts Beat Three Corners: Searching for spots that matter in the wake of the Fountain Square shooting (05/07/03)

Teen Dramas, Seriously New youth-oriented stories are a smart alternative to blockbusters (05/07/03)

Arts Beat City Says Yes to Anti-CAC (04/30/03)

All Things Big and Small Emotions match special effects in X2 (04/30/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD A trio of DVD releases makes a case for filmmaker William Wyler (04/30/03)

Arts Beat How Will the Arts Deal With the Boycotters? (04/23/03)

Family Affair Michael and Kirk Douglas team up for It Runs in the Family (04/23/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD More should have faith in the little-seen The Believer (04/23/03)

Kung Fu Kicks Bulletproof Monk is Hollywood's latest try at 'chopsocky' action (04/16/03)

Beautiful Loser Neil Jordan and Nick Nolte team up brilliantly on The Good Thief (04/16/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Animation gets Spirited Away thanks to Hayao Miyazaki (04/16/03)

Arts Beat No Way to Treat Newport's Art King Andrew Loughnane (04/09/03)

Razzle-Dazzle Will Spirited Away start a new era of animation? (04/09/03)

This Year's Model Colin Farrell is Hollywood's dude, and not a moment too soon (04/09/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Czech-made Three Wishes for Cinderella gets its happy ending (04/09/03)

Arts Beat Can the Arts Play Ball? (04/02/03)

Girls Against Boys Beckham and Phone Booth offer fresh faces and rich drama (04/02/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The rockumentary Break Your Heart embraces Jeff Tweedy and Wilco (04/02/03)

Arts Beat Is Cincinnati Ready for CAC's Shock and Awe? (03/26/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD The release of Straw Dogs uncovers a Peckinpah classic (03/26/03)

The Devil in David Mack Fresh off his high-profile Daredevil contributions, a local comic book artist looks to take his own story to the big screen (03/19/03)

Of Mice and Men The Hunted and Willard offer audiences 1970s flashbacks (03/19/03)

Goodbye, Stan Brakhage Torchbearer of the film avant-garde died March 9 (03/19/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD A forgotten controversy hits DVD with a pair of releases (03/19/03)

Arts Beat All Tomorrow's Parties: Hoping for a Better Future for Cincinnati (03/12/03)

All God's Children City of God bursts with gritty streets and colorful characters (03/12/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Lights go up on new version of Cinema Paradiso (03/12/03)

Arts Beat Beware the Shadow Men: Thoughts on the "Paradise" Reading at the Playhouse (03/05/03)

Girly Shows Cincinnati Women's Film Fest offers respite from Hollywood (03/05/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Camila celebrates Argentine culture amidst its emotional love story (03/05/03)

Arts Beat Unseen War Protest: A Quiet Art Exhibition Makes a Loud Statement (02/26/03)

Mad Spielberg Want to make Hollywood's most powerful director angry? Here's One Way. (02/26/03)

Hating Critics, Again Some answers to recent questions about my state-of-mind (02/26/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Children Underground shines light on Romanian orphans (02/26/03)

Arts Beat Tale of Two Ringmasters: Jim Tarbell Leads the Arts Circus (02/19/03)

Lost Again in Las Vegas An extravagant DVD treats Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas like the classic it is (02/19/03)

Dead Man Snoozing Kevin Spacey stumbles in the death row melodrama The Life of David Gale (02/19/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Ernest Hemingway short story, The Killers, worthy of two adaptations (02/19/03)

Arts Beat An Artful Protest to War (02/12/03)

Ben Says Actor Ben Affleck faces heat about Jennifer Lopez at Daredevil press conference (02/12/03)

Ben Says, Part Two Ben Affleck wants you to know: He's an actor first and a famous boyfriend second (02/12/03)

From Comics to Silver Screen New Daredevil movie borrows from local artist David Mack (02/12/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Jean Cocteau's experimental photography and surrealist setting make Beast a beauty (02/12/03)

Arts Beat Hello Again (02/05/03)

Honest Tears Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar leaps forward with heartfelt Talk to Her (02/05/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Society's inability to mingle at core of Thomas in Love (02/05/03)

Art-House Filmmakers Are Shocking! Irreversible, The Shape of Things and the avant-garde epic Cremaster III usher in a new revolution at Sundance (01/29/03)

Films to Shake Your World A slice of Sundance is heading toward a theater near you (01/29/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD British filmmaker Isaac Julien gives thoughtful overview to blaxploitation cinema (01/29/03)

Candidate Redux Sundance founder Robert Redford reexamines his career and the role of the festival (01/22/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Pépé Le Moko a key moment in history of French cinema (01/22/03)

Arts Beat Enquirer to Local Artists: We'll Do Better (Maybe) (01/15/03)

Kaufman on Kaufman Adaptation writer Charlie Kaufman offers a look inside his head (01/15/03)

Magnificent Obsessions Meryl Streep makes The Hours memorable (01/15/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Angela propelled Rebecca Miller's own personal velocity (01/15/03)

Arts Beat A Blast of an Idea (01/08/03)

Dark Man Jason Patric comes of age with the intense cop drama, Narc (01/08/03)

Shoot the Screenwriter Nicolas Cage's dual performance boosts chancy Adaptation (01/08/03)

Couch Potato: Video and DVD Trouble in Paradise showcases the golden age of romantic comedies (01/08/03)

Top Ten 2002 top 10 (01/01/03)

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People of the Year Thomas Condon and Amanda Mayes made statements (12/26/02)

Leo vs. Leo Leonardo DiCaprio returns to the spotlight with two year-end movies (12/26/02)

King of the Yellow Brick Road DiCaprio's charm provides plenty of laughs in Catch Me If You Can (12/26/02)

Couch Potato Video and DVD (12/26/02)

Masterpieces The films of 2002 offered plenty of highlights, both big and small (12/19/02)

Man against Myth Gangs of New York betters Two Towers in year-end epic battle (12/19/02)

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Our Latinas of the Cinema Lopez's sugary romance pales next to Real Women Have Curves (12/12/02)

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Arts Beat Art Isn't a Crime (12/05/02)

Back to the Future Todd Haynes' melodrama of the '50s tackles contemporary issues (12/05/02)

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Arts Beat Jasson Minadakis' Hard-Knock Message (11/27/02)

Heart & Soul Standing in the Shadows of Motown and Solaris look deep into the human spirit (11/27/02)

Couch Potato Video and DVD (11/27/02)

Shaken and Stirred Pierce Brosnan's Mission: Make James Bond Appealing to Teen-agers (11/21/02)

Arts Beat Gary Gaffney's Citywide Debut (11/21/02)

Tears and Bullets Todd Haynes' melodrama Far From Heaven beats a cliché-riddled Bond (11/21/02)

Couch Potato Video and DVD (11/21/02)

Citizen Moore Michael Moore continues his muckraking ways with Bowling for Columbine (11/14/02)

In The Company of Men Rodger Dodger is a clever comedy about the battle between the sexes (11/14/02)

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Arts Beat Birth of a CSO Salesman (11/07/02)

Devil Girl Rebecca Romijn-Stamos plays the dangerous vamp in sleek Femme Fatale (11/07/02)

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Good for What Ails You The Power of Art transforms Children's Hospital (11/07/02)

Arts Beat Condon's Art Speaks for Itself (10/31/02)

Sympathy for a Devil Filmmaker Paul Schrader tells another dark tale in Auto Focus (10/31/02)

Adam, Will You Ever Forgive Me? Sandler proves he can be sensitive and complex (10/31/02)

Couch Potato Video and DVD (10/31/02)

Scream Queen Julianna Margulies tests her lungs in the fright-fest Ghost Ship (10/24/02)

Life During Wartime Bloody Sunday captures an infamous day in Northern Ireland history (10/24/02)

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Arts Beat The Art of Activism (10/17/02)

Breakout Shannyn Sossamon turns up the heat in Rules of Attraction (10/17/02)

Shadow Magic Fantasy movies make a brief return to childlike storytelling with Tuck Everlasting and Spirited Away (10/17/02)

Couch Potato Video and DVD (10/17/02)

Arts Beat A Tale of Three Festivals (10/10/02)

Too Beautiful for You Michelle Pfeiffer says she looks too good for prison in White Oleander (10/10/02)

Couch Potato All Creatures Great and Drawn (10/10/02)

Continuing Films (10/10/02)

Arts Beat Projected Life (10/03/02)

Hamlet Turned Monster Actor Ralph Fiennes returns to his evil ways in Red Dragon (10/03/02)

Another Holden Caulfield Although slightly less cynical, Kieran Culkin is full of surprises in Igby Goes Down (10/03/02)

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Arts Beat Red Hot vs. Black & White (09/26/02)

Keeping Him in the Papers Robert Evans documentary is a lively show-biz tale (09/26/02)

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Arts Beat Thomas Condon's Wake (09/19/02)

Who's Laughing Now? Paul Thomas Anderson and Adam Sandler are Toronto Fest's unlikeliest pair (09/19/02)

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Show Stoppers Hollywood stars and art-house filmmakers converge in Toronto (09/12/02)

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The Future Is Now Cincinnati's hot underground arts space, SSNOVA, has come a long way in a year (08/29/02)

The Most Influential People in the Arts CityBeat's sixth annual ranking of people who are leading Greater Cincinnati's arts -- for better or worse (08/29/02)

No Clowning Around Robin Williams is wonderfully creepy in One Hour Photo (08/29/02)

The Fall X Pack Brains will be back in fashion on the big screen (08/29/02)

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Arts Beat Art After Sept. 11 (08/22/02)

In Jennifer We Trust Good Girl director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White bank on their celebrity actress (08/22/02)

Hard Drive Love S1MØNE pairs Al Pacino and virtual actress for winning comedy (08/22/02)

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The Road to Santa Claus (08/14/02)

Arts Beat Why __________ (Fill in the Blank) Is Cooler Than Cincinnati

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Blowing One's Mind A new documentary celebrates blaxploitation movies (08/14/02)

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Arts Beat Summer's Finest (08/08/02)

Tattooed Spy Child Uncreative plot spoils Vin Diesel's action hero debut in XXX (08/08/02)

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Arts Beat Dullsville and Its Hip Uptown Neighbor (08/01/02)

Made in L.A. Soderbergh enjoys a career-defining moment with Full Frontal (08/01/02)

Telling Secrets Is there no limit to DVD special features? (08/01/02)

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Arts Beat Sweat and Inspiration (07/25/02)

You Only Laugh Twice Austin Powers grows stale in uninspired Goldmember (07/25/02)

The Art That's Conrad L. Hall You might not have heard of him, but chances are you've seen his handiwork (07/25/02)

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Arts Beat The Riley Project Dazzles (07/18/02)

Holm's Overdue Spotlight Emperor's New Clothes thrives on its veteran lead (07/18/02)

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Arts Beat New Millennium Opera (07/11/02)

Newman's Own Veteran actor finds a swan song role with Road to Perdition (07/11/02)

Big and Little Caesars Powerful Road to Perdition one of the year's best films (07/11/02)

Couch Potato Reintroducing Wes Anderson (07/11/02)

It's Not Over Until the Dead Man Sings Cincinnati Opera risks a lot on a powerful, politically charged production of Dead Man Walking (07/04/02)

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Arts Beat Portune & the Boycott (06/27/02)

Industrial Lights & Magic Gumby and Thunderbirds continue to thrive in the digital-effects era (06/27/02)

A Few Good Gags Adam Sandler relies on his supporting cast for laughs in Mr. Deeds (06/27/02)

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Arts Beat Telling Arts Leaders What They Want to Hear (06/20/02)

Future Notorious Spielberg pays homage to classic film noirs with suspenseful Minority Report (06/20/02)

Cherish: The Soundtrack The Human League's sugary '80s Pop song "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" becomes a character in Finn Taylor's latest film (06/20/02)

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A Father's Tale How a 60-year-old story connects three generations of fathers and sons (06/13/02)

Avoiding the Doo Scooby-Doo and Windtalkers are special effects disasters (06/13/02)

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