Simon Pegg trades more comedy for sentiment in Run, Fat Boy, Run.

By Scott Renshaw posted March 27, 2008 12:00 AM

I think Simon Pegg had people fooled for a while there. Because the British comic (and his collaborators Edgar Wright and Nick Frost) had found a niche in genre send-ups... read on»

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Romantic comedy celebrates the women of Beirut.

By Curt Holman posted March 27, 2008 12:00 AM

The gooey confection that gives the Lebanese chick flick Caramel its name is more than a sugary treat. The film takes place at a beauty shop in Beirut, where the... read on»

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Girls Rock! is a scream. Fortunately, it’s also a good movie.

By Amy McCullough posted March 20, 2008 12:00 AM

It takes some gumption to watch a movie that easily could amount to 91 minutes of young girls screaming. Which is why Girls Rock! seems so daunting at first. The... read on»

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Under the Same Moon details an immigrant network below society’s surface.

By Josh Rosenblatt posted March 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Paradise is a relative term, and Shangri-La is simply a matter of perspective. The Garden of Eden doesn’t sound like Eden to me – with all that time outside, all... read on»

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Horton Hears a Who! entertains, even if it doesn’t entirely deserve Seuss’ name.

By Scott Renshaw posted March 13, 2008 12:00 AM

I suppose filmmakers think they’re putting something over on us by using the possessive author credit on literary adaptations. The suggestion is that the movie version is somehow more bona... read on»

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Michael Haneke remakes his own Funny Games – and it’s just as disturbing the second time around.

By Scott Renshaw posted March 13, 2008 12:00 AM

In 1997, Austrian director Michael Haneke (Caché) made the deeply unsettling meta-thriller Funny Games. Because it was a German-language film, it was seen by relatively few Americans. A decade later,... read on»

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Winner of the Palme d’Or Award at Cannes, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days shows the decay of ‘80s Romania with the story of two women.

By Tricia Olszewski posted March 06, 2008 12:00 AM

In 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a young woman is pregnant, but she can’t go searching for a solution in the Penny Saver. In other words, Romanian writer-director... read on»

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Frances McDormand and Amy Adams each play a different type of woman in Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day.

By Marc Savlov posted March 06, 2008 12:00 AM

The Blitz was not all chip rationing and stiff upper lipness for the Londoners who endured it—there was also the West End, gin, and the promise of non-Nazi-induced blackouts and... read on»

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