film commentary

I wish The Battered Bastards of Baseball were half as rowdy as its subject matter. The film examines the Class A Portland Mavericks...

In the Mexican independent production The Empty Hours, 17-year-old Sebastián and twentysomething Miranda spend...

I may not be the target demographic for Land Ho!, but my parents are. I was lucky enough to watch the film with my folks...

When I was six years old and living in Fargo, North Dakota, my dad’s colleague Donna, (a beautiful Vietnamese woman...

The psychologist James Hillman writes about our attraction to biographies in his book The Soul’s Code...

“From the director of Sinister.” Sold. Scott Derrickson’s Sinister was not only one of my favorite films...

I walked to my neighborhood theater to see Tammy last night, excited to finally catch one of Melissa McCarthy’s movies.

The best television show this year was not True Detective or Mad Men or Girls or something on any cable channel...

I never liked science-fiction movies. I always thought they were propaganda for a neat, tidy, immaculately designed future...

One of the greatest artists in the history of the universe, Thelonious Monk, was once asked why his compositions were so complex, so dense...

I write women’s fiction and erotic suspense novels for a living and am fortunate enough to be able to make a living at it.

Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys made me almost unbearably nostalgic, but not in the ways you might think.