Matter of Life and Death, A (Stairway to Heaven)

Hotel de Love by Craig Rosenberg is, like Cosi, a fresh and amusing Australian film that puts Hollywood schlock like Fools Rush In to shame. It tells the story of twin brothers, Rick (Aden Young, who also plays Nick in Cosi) and Stephen (Simon Bossell) who fall in love with the same girl, Melissa (Saffron…

A Brazilian reflection on the vanity of human — or at least of masculine — wishes and the permanence of the eternal feminine

A charming romance — as these things go nowadays — built along fairy tale lines which also appeals to the multiculturalist in all of us

The German-born Roland Emmerich’s anti-Americanism is ever less subtle, yet Americans are still lapping it up

Aren’t there enough reasons we know about to oppose the President’s re-election without our having to probe his psyche for hidden ones?

Brian De Palma is a talented director, but he really needs to get himself some better writers. Mission to Mars is full of clever ideas, which are too rare in the movies, and spectacular, computer-generated special effects, which are not nearly rare enough, but much of the dialogue is cornball stuff that could have come…