“No One Knows About Persian Cats” is the fifth feature from Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi (who won the Camera d’Or at Cannes a decade ago for “A Time For Drunken Horses”) – and...
Adam Lang, the former British Prime Minister, shambles around under virtual house arrest in his publisher’s post-modern mansion. It’s like a bunker concreted into a Hitchcockian Island...
Reading's Cemetery Junction is a notorious bottleneck for rush hour traffic, a place where time can literally come to a halt if you don’t plan your journey with due care or attention. This is...
As a Black gender equality advocate, I had mixed reactions to Erykah Badu’s video “Window Seat." I worried about people cheapening the significance of the song. In the video, the artist removes...
Living in New York City, Dave Lizewski is your average kind of teenager. Not a geek or a jock. Just average. He wanks over his teacher, has a crush on the school fox Katie Deauxma, and dreams of...
Ancient Greece. Perseus, son of Zeus and a mortal Queen, is netted by the fisherman Spyros and raised as his own child. Grown to manhood, Perseus fails to save his adoptive family. Hades drowns...
If you’re over 35 and male, you’ll remember going to the movies and watching the original “Clash of the Titans” in 1981. This was the last hurrah for stop-motion animation and for the master...
Unlike the poet, you're a wolf by blood: Paws on my back, teeth in my neck. With the city's cheeks full of southwestern wind, You ruffle March ice on the flower-beds. Well, I have had myself a...
Hedeby Island, Sweden. Henrik Vanger, the venerable head of the powerful Vanger dynasty, opens a parcel from Hong Kong. The contents, a neatly pressed flower, floor the old man as surely as if a...
I’ve heard a lot about "Up In The Air," partially because it was just Oscar season, and partially because reviewers across the country have written about it as excessively as sports writers wrote...
