Movie after movie, Hollywood invites its audience to suspend its disbelief. But Nicolas Cage as an MIT astrophysics professor and savior of the world is just too much. This is the premise of...
Horror films of the past decade fall into two camps: torture porn and Asian-inspired. Falling into the latter category, The Uninvited would be better named The Uninspired.
Films like Hotel Rwanda and Schindler's List are difficult to watch. They are cinematic portraits of real-world human suffering, often with unsettling imagery. And then there's director Darren...
In the not too distant future, a corrupt transplant corporation runs a dystopia plagued by organ failures. When Congress legalizes organ repossessions for transplant patients who cannot pay for...
Graffiti has come a long way since its roots as a deviant art form of the '70s and '80s. Tagging and hip-hop have given rise to an important aesthetic in the art world, evinced by Drips Caps &...
WALL-E, Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker and Gus Van Sant's Milk (see review on left) made 2008 a great year in film. But the year provided more interesting material than summer blockbusters and...
A biopic, Milk tells the story of slain civil rights leader and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to major public office.
