LAWS curtailing gay rights. Passionate supporters on both sides. Protests in the streets. Sounds like what's going on in California today over Proposition 8 - except that it's also what went on in California in the late 1970s. The only differences being the bad suits and worse mustaches. The earlier events are the subject of "Milk," a biopic from director Gus Van Sant opening...more >
THIS being Thanksgiving time, the folks at BAM Rose Cinemas have come up with a clever title for their series of punk-rock movies: "Punk 'n' Pie." The series began on Friday, so you have already missed some of the entries; but there are still ex citing ones to come this week. One is Alex Cox's brutal "Sid and Nancy" (1986), which closes the program next...more >
November 21, 2008 - ONE of those Deep Dark Secret movies, the dull indie "Lake City" combines a wholly uninteresting family mystery with a wholly unconvincing crime drama. Sissy Spacek stars as a...more >
November 21, 2008 - AN ambitious gay musical fantasy inspired by "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Tom Gustafson's "Were the World Mine" is far better in concept than execution. The shoestring...more >
November 21, 2008 - THERE is, alas, nothing particularly "Special" about this strange little movie that provides a rare starring role for Michael Rappaport, a ubiquitous and reliable supporting actor whose...more >
November 21, 2008 - TWENTY-THREE years in the making, Ellen Kuras' documentary "The Betrayal" is a powerful account of how the American dream became a nightmare for one Laotian family. Creatively...more >
November 21, 2008 - TWELVE-year-old girls have a lot to answer for: Clay Aiken, exclamation-point abuse, "Twilight." What's more worrying, though, is how the bubble-gum lip-glossers seem to rule national...more >
November 21, 2008 - THE deeply mediocre "Bolt" is neither the best nor the worst recent effort from Disney's once-mighty animation division, which has foundered in the shadow of its sister company, Pixar...more >
November 21, 2008 - WITH the possibility of a second Great Depression looming closer every day, it's a perfect time to re- visit Carole Lombard, the queen of the screwball comedies that Hollywood offered as a...more >
November 21, 2008 - CAN a shy Muslim woman find satisfaction in bed with a frisky Christian woman? Judging by the soapy "I Can't Think Straight," they can - even if viewers are going to be left feeling...more >
November 19, 2008 - 'HARVARD Beats Yale, 29-29" was the typically scurrilous headline that appeared in a rag called the Harvard Crimson after the outlandish 1968 edition of the annual gridiron epic known on...more >
November 16, 2008 - 'THIS event is a cine phile's dream come true," gushes David Schwartz, dapper chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image. He's talking about a museum-sponsored appearance...more >
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