by Richard von Busack
DIRECTOR Ken Loach has been nobly serving the cause of the proletariat with social-realist films for so long that he has earned the right to make a crowd pleaser. The genial Looking …

by Richard von Busack
WHAT BEGINS as a mess of good actors flailing for something to do devolves into a tangle of expatriate loungers keeping their secrets. The City of Your Final Destination concerns Omar (bland …

by Richard von Busack
AS Sideshow Bob might have predicted: The chick flick’s bottomless chum bucket has claimed Vanessa Redgrave. Aspiring New Yorker writer Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is involved with a way-too-preoccupied NYC chef (Gael García …

by Richard von Busack
OSS 117: Lost in Rio: Double-one-seven est de retour.
There are Bond geeks and then there are Bond geeks, but the makers of OSS 117: Lost in Rio (opening Friday) deserve an honorary …

With the upcoming opening of Jesse Eisenberg in the much anticipated film Holy Rollers (Reviews, Trailer) we have been getting quite a few questions about what life is like for a hasidic jew in NY.

With the upcoming opening of Jesse Eisenberg in the much anticipated film Holy Rollers (Reviews, Trailer) we have been getting quite a few questions about what life is like for a hasidic jew in NY.

by Richard von Busack
AUGEAN STABLES that it was, the Bush regime is going to require years of cleansing. An especially fragrant part of that era is the story of Jack Abramoff and the still-at-large Tom …

The Good, The Bad and the Weird: the good, the bad and the overlong.
by Richard von Busack
There’s loads of undifferentiated action in Ji-Woon Kim’s The Good, The Bad and the Weird—a Sergio Leone pastiche with …

About a year ago we presented the Movie Times list of Top 10 Biker Movies but we soon realized that we missed a few.  Naturally we felt obligated to share a few lesser known favorites.
As …

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 …