After a string of disappointing projects, Joel and Ethan Coen have hit cinematic pay dirt with their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2003 western crime novel No Country for Old Men. Vapors of Al  

Music biopics tend to be prosaic in form -- a chronological recounting of a Pop star's life, highlighting the push-and-pull between personal tragedies and artistic triumphs. Usually, such films   

The famed 1985 magical realist novel of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez gets an ambitious but off-key cinematic adaptation that trips up, with the exception of casting of Javier Bardem a  

About six years ago, Zach Helm found himself at his own version of the crossroads. As a screenwriter for hire, he was making a mint doctoring scripts that never went into production. The trade an  

Technically, Ridley Scott's American Gangster should be called a "period crime drama." It stars Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas, a real-life Harlem heroin dealer of the late 1960s and early 1  

I hated Crash. Every pure and noble intention of writer/director Paul Haggis rushed off the screen with a blind and righteous fury that scorched hearts and minds. Those opposed to the plea for rac  

The unique visions of writer/director Wes Anderson leave one either bewitched or bemused. There's little middle ground. Writing in his The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, film critic and h  

Steve Gebhardt's first introduction to John Sinclair -- the subject of his just-released DVD documentary from MVDvisual, 20 to Life -- came during University of Cincinnati's 1968 Spring Arts Fes  

Halloween shares an undisputed bond with cinema. The season is not complete without multiple viewings of the creatures that helped shape the season -- the classic Universal monsters Dracula, Fran  

Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited and Craig Gillespie's Lars and the Real Girl deal with unconventional stories about men trying to connect. One works, the other doesn't. Lars and the Rea  

A lot of people don't like films about racial affairs in America. They're aware of our lack of parity, but don't want to pay $9.50 to feel guilty or angry about it. With the indie comedy Finish  

Novelist Dennis Lehane calls forth Boston neighborhoods with words, giving name to every boozy joint and dirty tramp that was ever stained by a drop of whiskey. In his books, an epic sadness hangs  

Christopher McCandless was a restless spirit. He was an idealistic young man who yearned for a world where simple truths ruled, a world where crass commercialization and false idols had no place.  

In yet another study of twisted loyalty, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg return to the crime-driven New York state of mind that belongs to writer-director James Gray. The two actors starred in T  

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a contracted back-of-the-house "fixer" at Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, one of Manhattan's largest corporate law firms. He's the guy sent out at midnight to the W