CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL '12: THE WORLD IS FUNNY (SHEMI ZARHIN, ISRAEL)

Screens at CIFF: 10/18 & 10/20 & 10/22 World premiere: 14 June, 2012, Israel If you have ever heard of the Israeli comedy trio Gasha...

EXPENT

The charms of The Expendables weren't just ephemeral and one-note, they were about as obviously one-note as it gets: lots of '80s a...

ROMAN HOLIDAYS

The last time Woody Allen made more than one genuinely great movies right in a row was in 1994 (if we want to press a point and allow the in...

WES OF THE MOON

The easy, perhaps even the smart thing to do would be to use Moonrise Kingdom as a yardstick for judging everything Wes Anderson has been u...

BLOCKBUSTER HISTORY: MOVIES ADAPTED FROM BOARD GAMES

Every Sunday this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way...

THE ASSEMBLY LINE

Disclosure: I have some personal history - I wouldn't say we were "friends", but we were more than casual acquaintances - with...

BLOCKBUSTER HISTORY: A GATHERING OF HEROES

Every Sunday this summer, we'll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way...

IT'S ALMOST LIKE MEN AND WOMEN ARE FROM DIFFERENT PLANETS, LIKE MARS AND VENUS OR SOMETHING

Ordinarily, the lede paragraph is where I'd put a hackles-raised jeremiad of disputable racial sensitivity, complaining about how we hav...

WHIT STILLMAN: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1998)

With The Last Days of Disco writer-director-etc. Whit Stillman solidified the pattern that had begun with his 1994 sophomore effort Barcelo...

WE WENT BACK INSIDE, SAT DOWN, HAD A FEW DRINKS, BUT ALL HE KEPT TALKING ABOUT WAS GLORY DAYS

Allow me to begin with a surprising revelation, followed by a qualification. The surprise is that American Reunion , despite the seemingly i...