by Richard von Busack
Iron Man 2: Heavy metal, rocket men, and weirdly elegant screwball comedy.
Elating, if politically confusing, Iron Man 2 serves up the pleasures of a gorgeous and energetic superhero film. It’s buffered with …

by Richard von Busack
Look at Oceans Disneynature as some recompense for that snorkeling trip to Molokini you won’t be making this year, thanks to the boys at Goldman Sachs. The lack of narrative thrust and …

by Richard von Busack
THERE’S PROBABLY no such thing as a liberal, enlightened vigilante movie, but Harry Brown’s harrowing surfaces and a sunset performance of dignity and smothered wrath by Michael Caine give this minor movie …

by Richard von Busack
A crafty editor could take The Back-Up Plan and turn it into a horror story: too trusting J-Lo is lured to a rural goat farm and forced to foal the anti-Christ by …

by Richard von Busack
ASIDE FROM the way it mucked up everyone’s Oscar pool, Juan José Campanella’s The Secret in Their Eyes offers a few memorable aspects. The most memorable is the “Forget it, Jacobo, it’s …

by Richard von Busack
THE MUSICAL docu-drama No One Knows About Persian Cats follows the trail of a pair of indie rockers who want to get a band together so they can play Europe. The duo …

by Richard von Busack
Many movie are called The Little Film That Could—Raymond De Felitta’s film deserves the name; the tale has tallness as well as heart. It concerns a tangle of confusion hitting the Rizzos, …

by Richard von Busack

Hooded like a terrorist, hiding in the cave-like shadows of his studio, his face obscured, his voice digitally scrambled…at his side, his emblem: a grinning pop-eyed monkey mask in a bell-jar, the …

by Richard von Busack
In the Meandros Valley in Turkey in 1920, a strange artifact is discovered:an ancient board game dedicated to the great god Pan. The game is refurbished, but sfter it kills its discoverers, …

by Richard von Busack
In the Meandros Valley in Turkey in 1920, a strange artifact is discovered:an ancient board game dedicated to the great god Pan. The game is refurbished, but sfter it kills its discoverers, …