Ben Lewin’s The Sessions is a very rare beast - an American film that portrays human sexuality with honesty, sensitivity and no hint of prurience. (Actually, writer-director Lewin is a…
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Half way through Winter’s Bone I found myself thinking, “So, this is what the Western has become?” The best Westerns are about finding or sustaining a moral path though a…
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Welcome to the 2010 “cut out and keep” guide to video renting (or downloading or however you consume your home entertainment these days). I suggest you clip this article, fold…
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Full disclosure: I wrote a play about Michael Jackson once ("Dirty Doris", BATS 1995) so I’ll confess to always being interested in the real character behind the tabloid and music…
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One of the Film Society highlights in recent years was the special screening (on lustrous 35mm) of the 70s classic thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three about the…
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The theme for the week seems to be romance and some of the finest love stories of recent (or in fact any) year have just made their way to our…
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