Postman Always Rings Twice, The

Another movie celebration of media narcissism, and an evocation of pathos for the long recessional of the newspaper business’s terminal decline

Passion of Mind is the first film in English of Alain Berliner, the director of the charmingly disturbing or, disturbingly charming, Belgian film Ma Vie en Rose. Perhaps it was decided that for his American debut he needed to find his audience with the help of a star of the stature of Demi Moore. Similar…

Poets who die young are themselves a highly poetical subject, as Chatterton, Byron, Shelley and Keats could attest — but perhaps they’re less interesting in the movies

The word “honor” turns up conspicuously in only one place, apart from the title, in Men of Honor, which was directed by George Tillman Jr. from a script by Scott Marshall Smith based on the true story of the U.S. Navy’s first black diver, Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.). This comes as Brashear is facing…

A German film whose humor, sentiment, charm and lightness of touch make it seem almost French

An enjoyable account of Charles Dickens’s love affair with a much younger woman whose historicity, however, must remain largely speculative