Visiting artist Crispin Hellion Glover presents What Is It? and Crispin Hellion Glover's Big Slide Show, followed by a post-screening Q&A and book signing, Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 3, at the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre, 7 p.m. Tickets are $20. Visit www.eastmanhouse.org or www.crispinglover.com for more info.He's
If familiarity does breed contempt, then you and your significant other are likely the not-so-proud parents of a thousand tiny resentments. Yet reality always waxes as infatuation wanes, and what once seemed like an adorable quirk can turn into the vilest shortcoming ever. Most romantic comedies are too sweet on
Director Zack Snyder's screen adaptation of graphic novelist Frank Miller's 300 breathes vivid, gory, campy life into the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartans, under the command of King Leonidas, fended off Xerxes' vast Persian army for three days. Upon exiting the theater, however, the clash continued
For most of us, Mom and Dad were once giants (literally), as infallible as they were wise. But viewing them from an adult perspective can expose some unsettling realities, some of which were probably best left buried. Filmmaker Doug Block set out to learn the truth about his parents, and
Grrrrr. Grrrrr. Grrrrr. Grr - oh, hey. No, I'm not mad at you. I was just brooding over irksome French filmmaker Luc Besson. He first gained stateside notice with the 1990 bullet ballet "La Femme Nikita," and since then Besson has orchestrated riveting trainwrecks like "The Professional," "The Fifth Element,"
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Leave it to filmmaker Paul Verhoeven to go and sex up the Holocaust flick. The latest from the man who forgot to budget for underthings on 1992's "Basic Instinct" and personally accepted his Worst Director Razzie for 1995's camp classic "Showgirls" is the slick "Black Book," an alternately silly and
Cinematically speaking, it's true that the cuddlier an animal is, the funnier it would look chomping on your genitals. Well, maybe not your personal privates, because that would hurt, and one's own agony is rarely funny (conversely: pain + somebody else's junk = totally funny). The point I'm trying to
The heroin addiction film must be absolutely mouthwatering to those who make movies; it's a topic teeming with the downward spirals and the phoenix-like redemptions that can fuel compelling drama. But for those who watch movies, two deadly problems plague this overdone genre: depictions of self-medication gone awry are no
Filmmaking is still considered a man's game. Argue with me all you like, but if women behind the camera weren't an anomaly, film festivals like High Falls might be devoted to the cinematic contributions of the only slightly less fair sex. The scales, however, do continue to tip: two of
"They don't understand how much I give and how it effects me. And now they want more."Toward the end of "Control," Ian Curtis, the late singer and lyricist for the awesome post-punk band Joy Division, echoes the lament of nearly every artist who learns what a persistent bitch success can
Forget about film criticism for a moment. It's totally subjective, as well as a bit of a scam; let's be honest. Every movie fan has that one actor that they would watch in anything, quality be damned --- it could be a great movie, an awful TV show, a staged
An exploration of the relationship between Elizabeth I and the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh.
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young
Sometimes I love subdued cinema in which nothing seems to happen, while other films find me muttering to my pen and/or Blow Pop about how hellaciously bored I am with it all. What distinguishes the former from the latter is the presence of compelling conflict, be it external or internal.
A woman once told me that only dumb people swear because they can't think of a more intelligent way to convey their feelings. This same woman would go on to helpfully mention that if I were taller, skinnier, and prettier, I could be a model. Now, the restrictive space-time continuum
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus (Kidman) falls in with Lionel Sweeney (Downey Jr.), an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twent
If there's one thing I've learned regarding the Spanish Inquisition, it's that nobody expects it (thanks a lot, Monty Python!). But what I also didn't foresee is that a legendary director and an acclaimed cast could so thoroughly botch a film on the subject, Europe's creepy cousin to our Salem
Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events.
