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A wish-fulfillment romance for art-house audiences, Mona Achache’s “The Hedgehog ” Le hérisson”) is an ingratiating adaptation of Muriel Barbary’s…

Phillip Guzman’s “A Kiss and a Promise” is an admirably restrained portrait of serial killer, co-written by Mick Rossi, who…

Tsui Hark, one -time master of the golden age of Hong Kong Martial arts films is back! Detective Dee is…

Actress Vera Farmiga emerged from the Indie film scene (as Patricia Clarkson did a decade earlier) as one of our…

Writer, director, producer Jeff Prosserman’s “Chasing Madoff”, based on Harry Markopolis’s true financial thriller “No One Would Listen”, is a…

Adapted from Camilo Castelo Branco’s eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel, it has the grace and leisurely pace of 18th and 19th…

Julie Bertuccelli’s (Since Otar Left, 2004) The Tree (adapted from Australian writer, Judy Pascoe’s 2002 novel Our Father Who Art…

As a collector of Tabloid’s for their corn-pone surrealism, I was thrilled to watch Errol’s ripping tale of Joyce McKinney,…

“Life, Above All” by South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz (“Paris, je t’aime”) made the Academy short list as South Africa’s…

The War Crime trials at Nuremberg set the precedent, introduced a radical principle into international law. It defined the notion…