[photo]In the last 20 years, the Walt Disney Company has been steadily retooling its image as the princess factory. Taking heed of criticism [...]

Every year there is a new pile of smaller, independent or foreign language films that get nominated for Oscars. These films frequently lack [...]

The words “based on the inspirational true-life story” pop up on movie posters at least three or four times a year—most often over [...]

[photo] Right about now Hollywood is realizing it needs to start capitalizing on all those Oscar nominations. By the end of the month, [...]

It’s often a surprise, when Oscar nominations come out, to spot a film or two you’ve never heard of. Occasionally, these smaller, lower [...]

One day, writer-director J.C. Chandor will make a brilliant movie. He hasn’t quite managed it yet. His much-praised 2001 investment banking drama Margin [...]

Hollywood has long been fascinated with computers. Usually, they’re evil and want to kill us. There have been, by way of representative sample, [...]

Thomas Pynchon is one of those reclusive, cult authors who gets name-dropped a lot more than he gets read cover-to-cover. His earliest postmodern [...]

Helen is a filthy girl in more ways than one. She sees herself as an explorer, a brave adventurer in the realms of [...]

One would certainly be forgiven for thinking America is suffering from fairy tale overload at this point. There is, for example, that ubiquitous [...]