I watched most of Me and Orson Welles with my mouth agape. Not because the film is so good (it is, in fact, perfectly delightful), but because of the astonishing performance of an English actor you have never heard of. Christian McCay has only appeared in a handful of British films, but he was born [...]

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Americans and their perverse obsession with happy endings. Especially during the holidays. Everybody’s Fine is a remake of an Italian film by director Giuseppe Tornatore (who made the wondrous Cinema Paradiso). In it, a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, played by the great Marcello Mastroianni, heads to the mainland to surprise his five children, only to find [...]

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I know it is not as fashionable to say this as it once was, but I love Woody Allen. After exiling himself to London and Barcelona for a handful of films, the native New Yorker has returned to his Manhattan roots where he belongs (which isn’t to say he didn’t make a couple of great [...]

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