Defending Your Life

A never-less-than-watchable film about the immigrant experience in America that diminishes its own considerable power with touches of magic realism

10 Things I Hate About You, which was directed by Gil Junger and adapted from Shakespeare by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, attempts (again) to make Shakespeare hip by translating a version of the story of The Taming of the Shrew into — guess what! — a 1990s high school, this one in Seattle…

A bit of feminist, anti-corporatist, anti-religious hysteria piggy-backing on Hollywood’s enthusiasm for serial killers

Rachel Boynton tells a good story — at least for political junkies — but tries to make it mean something it doesn’t

Fred Barnes, writing in The Weekly Standard, tells us that he doesn’t go to the movies anymore, partly because he has got out of the habit and partly because they start too late or too early but mainly because of the left-wing bias of most of the thrillers. “In most thrillers it’s some conspiratorial right-wing…

An interestingly innovative and very watchable updating of Shakespeare’s late study of military honor