John Patrick Shanley, a prolific playwright best known in Hollywood for writing the Cher vehicle Moonstruck and directing Tom Hanks in the misunderstood Joe Versus the Volcano, brings his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play to the screen in Doubt, a transfixing story about the pursuit of truth, the winds of change, and [...]

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Stand up and take notice, Oscar. We’ve finally found something for you to sink your golden teeth into. Rarely has two people talking to each other been this compelling. Skewering both those who consider themselves above the law and those who muddle journalistic appetites with craven fixations on personality, Frost/Nixon is a sleek, compact, imminently [...]

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Remember the old cartoons in which one character would sneak up behind another and whack them on the head with a mallet, instantly producing a towering egg circled by miniature, chirping birds? The Day the Earth Stood Still is the cinematic equivalent of that violent animated altercation — just as heavy-handed and every bit as [...]

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I am proud to be a member of WAFCA and to have participated in this year’s voting. We logged more films than we all wish to count over the past few weeks, but I am absolutely thrilled with the results. No doubt you’ll be seeing a repeat of some of the following press release’s information [...]

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By the time Bobby Sands died in April 1981, more than 2,000 people had perished as a direct result of the conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the British occupational forces. Many of the convicted IRA fighters were housed in Belfast’s infamous Maze Prison where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher steadfastly refused to grant them [...]

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Timecrimes is your standard, run-of-the-mill suspense thriller, but with fantastical time travel where sensible twists used to be. Far too simplistic for something that masquerades as a puzzle, Timecrimes, a Sundance Film Festival selection from Spain, effectively holds your attention right up to the point where you figure the whole thing out. Which, unfortunately for [...]

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