Penelope Cruz shines — finally — in Pedro Almodovar’s newest
Dayna Papaleo
“Curse of the Golden Flower”; “Fanfan La Tulipe”
Chow Yun-Fat returns; the French classic unspools anew
“Candy”; “Climates”
Two new art house flicks explore the dissolution of troubled relationships
“Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny”; “The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes”
Green grass and high times Movies “THC: The Audience Is Baking.” With that opening-credit exhalation in the face of George Lucas, Tenacious D (that’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass) and director Liam Lynch (Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic) offer up a none-too-subtle theory about what might be going on in the theater parking lot prior […]
“Changing Times” and “Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles”
Let’s get lost Movies What do you want to get out of your movie-watching? Laughs? Thrills? Hopefully some truth? Me, I long to be destroyed. While I’m a fool for well-written romantic anguish, any manufactured tragedy or fictional woe can have its way with me. Unfortunately, the traditional pre-holiday drought of affecting films has left […]
“This Film Is Not Yet Rated”
Art is all but dead anyway Movies Recent documentaries are leading me to the conclusion that my blind faith in everyone and everything isn’t so much a comforting virtue as it is a fatal flaw. In the last couple of years I’ve been forced to accept that Big Macs are bad for you, politicians are […]






