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Jason Osder’s documentary “Let the Fire Burn” details a shocking instance of police oppression circa 1980.The Mayor of Philadelphia ordered…

Indelible performances by two young actors, and a script that avoids cliché make “The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister and Pete”…

Carlo Carlei’s handsomely mounted “Romeo and Juliet” using Rennaissance Italian locations approaches the visual splendor of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 classic.…

Agust 2013 – Like comfortable old shoes, favorite films are meant to be lived in. Some evenings I’ll shuffle about…

Tu Seras Mon Fils” is one of the best French film released this year. (I also loved the infectious retro…

Freda Kelly was just seventeen when she became the president of The Beatles fan club and eventually Brian Epstein’s secretary.…

As a 70’s feminist, I have spent hours of the last decade in darkened theatres writhing in agony watching films…

Thomas Vinterberg’s harrowing drama “The Hunt” (“Jagten”), is one of two must see post-Dogme films currently in theatres Mads Mikkelsen,…

Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer, the granddaughter of Golden Age screenwriter Edwin Justus Mayer (author of such screwball fancies as…

In December 2008, President George W. Bush was winding down his presidency. An illegal, last minute Bureau of Land Management…