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 …

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 …

Matt S. Gets to Know GravyTrain
Something strange was in the air.  It was dark, dreary day in Los Angeles, and as April Mullen, director, writer, producer and star of “GravyTrain”, described the beautiful, sunny Toronto …