“Closer” tells the story of four people who each get what they want in a relationship, but haven’t a clue as to how to hang onto it. ...

The Important Desert Movie has become a new genre. Around this time every year, we get a barrage of Important political thrillers meant...

I’ve never seen anything quite like the Borat movie. It stunned me. That’s not a word one would normally use to describe a comedy, but...

I saw the Toby Keith vehicle “Broken Bridges” via an unexpected and bizarre digital video presentation at the Lincolnshire Theater in an...

When Hollywood makes a romantic comedy, it usually almost never resembles the life you and I lead. I say that, of course, assuming the...

Author Patrick McCabe knows his misfits. He knows them so well, he invents new languages for them. They can be tough to learn at first,...

When people ask me my favorite film of all time, I often say Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.” I won’t go into detail as to why, but I have been...

“Broken Flowers” tells the story of a man pursuing a likeness of himself. Little does he know he has been on this pursuit his whole...

One of the first things “Bee Season” tries to convey is that words—letters in particular—have such strong spiritual connotations that...

No hero shot. No grand, memorable score. No forced romance. No action sequence that tries to be the end-all be-all action sequence. ...

“Boogeyman” tells a story of a Genius. In the movie he’s called Timmy, but for the sake of continuity, I will refer to him as Genius in...

In Benjamin Nugent’s book "American Nerd," Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Fieg says “I’ve always referred to life as perpetual high school...