Children of Men

[Also see discussion in “Entry from July 27, 2011” under “My Diary”] I liked After Life by Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous film was Maborosi. It is a witty contribution to the genre that includes Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Stairway to Heaven and so forth, but it gives the bureaucracy of death a peculiarly Japanese look….

Wild America by William Dear is an engaging kiddie movie, supposedly based on the true story of a family of prominent naturalist-filmmakers, which will provide some wholesome thrills with its peeks at life and wildlife through the eyes of three boys growing up in Arkansas in the late 1960s. Unfortunately, Dear is not content to…

Like other sorts of horror movies, The Stepford Wives, has now gone postmodern and ironic, for who today is terrified of being forced to be a housewife?

The movie it took twelve years to make — about a childhood that appears to be taking much, much longer

An always-watchable, sometimes moving account of nine women coming to terms with loss

A persuasive and watchable version of the 16^th president makes us not mind too much the reduction in scale of his great story from the epic to a grubby political wrangle