What exactly is a “home grown terrorist?” Young Muslims cloned in specially controlled vats hidden in secret greenhouses under guard day and night from elite seven-foot tall Al Qaeda warriors?...
Early on in Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Memoirs of Hadrian” the Emperor Hadrian, now 60, muses, “This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend,...
The Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro’s annual glam-fest on the Hudson, is glitzy and obnoxious and very L.A. – which is exactly why I enjoy covering it. It’s like traveling to the West...
Halfway into the new remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, the young heroine disrobes and steps into a hot bath. As she peels off her robe, some men at the screening I'm sitting in holler, "Yeah!...
Back in 1984, Alex Cox made his tech-noir “Repoman,” a freewheeling homage to “Kiss Me Deadly.” Sadly, 2010'a “Repo Men” has nothing to do with that film other than the plurality of the...
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...
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...
