Undernourished Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 1.

Undernourshied Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 2.

Undernourished Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 3.

Not if they keep making movies like A Separation.

A dark horse in the race for the Oscars.

Musings and predictions.

A review of the Muppets movie.

A film that's more than its catch phrase.

Shakespeare asks the big questions and sometimes he answers them. In Romeo and Juliet he asks about love, often.

As often as my pocketbook and homework allow, I go to New York City to the movies. I come from Kentucky, a place that neither can nor does sate my appetite for cinema. There are no festivals, no repertory theatres, no arthouses; there are only blockbusters, and great movies can ...

Lena Dunham, a 23-year-old filmmaker from New York who has a degree in film studies from Oberlin, plays Aura, a 22-year-old Oberlin grad with a “useless” film studies degree, in Lena Dunham’s first feature as a director, Tiny Furniture, written by: Lena Dunham.

At 10:55 p.m. on a Sunday night, I am obsessively checking my Facebook. After clearing my notification (singular notification, because it has only been about ten minutes since I last checked it. Okay, it’s been two minutes. Judge me.) and RSVP-ing “maybe” to the event I’m ...

RED (Link)

Finally tapping into the coveted “Action Movie-Goers Ages 55-64” demographic is RED, the first movie to fully recognize that the bad-ass old guy is the most bad-ass bad-ass possible. For that matter, I think I am not exaggerating when I say that, by and large, the older the practitioner, the more raw the feat. I dare you to name one thing that’s not raw as hell when done by a dude or lady of years. Doing push-ups. Chopping firewood. Yelling at Koreans. Speaking to a nation. Chugging a beer.

Roman Polanski has lived one of the most fascinating lives of the last century, though it would be hard to call it “good.” Such a title ought to be reserved for more pleasant, straightforward existences that perhaps begin modestly and end with a substantial list of quality works and a ...

KILLERS

1. Beethoven's 5th