How exactly do you pitch a film like Lars and the Real Girl?
“Picture this: a painfully shy young man orders a sex doll on the Internet and takes it with him everywhere he goes.”
I’m sure studios were lining up with their wallets out. Well, if they weren’t, they should have been. Lars and the Real […]

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You cannot help but admire — even be in awe of — brilliant director Julie Taymor’s extraordinary vision. Her films (Titus, Frida) are those rare works of art that succeed in merging cinematic splendor with Broadway aesthetics (she got her start on the stage and directed the wildly successful “The Lion King” on Broadway) to […]

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The Jane Austen Book Club is the sort of movie that had saccharine tummy ache written all over it. Thankfully, I realized early on that I had nothing to fear. The Jane Austen Book Club is both a testament to Austen’s continued relevance and a fine example of classroom particulars converted into entertaining banter without […]

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