Jul 25, 2008 Art Review : Insider/Outsider POSTED BY VICTORIA GANNON
My friend can't figure out where he belongs -- there or here. He grew up on the East Coast, but now lives on the west one. Sometimes he asks me, "Which is home?"
Jul 24, 2008 Film Review : Full Grown Men POSTED BY MARK TAYLOR
What if your childhood friend called you up out of the blue after years, maybe decades, of not being in touch? What if this friend was the same person who once convinced you to wear your sister's wig to school because it made you look like the guy on the cover of Frampton Comes Alive?
Jul 24, 2008 Film Review : Strangers POSTED BY EMILY WILSON
In Strangers, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival's opening night feature, directors Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv tell a story as old as Romeo and Juliet with energy and spontaneity.
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'Brideshead': A Shorter Visit To A Grand Old Place Purists, fear not: The new film of the Evelyn Waugh novel is visually sumptuous and largely stays true to its source. And Bob Mondello says this two-hour take on the classic tale provides new insights on character.
Summary Judgment: The Worst Beach Movies Of All-Time Surfers and beach bunnies used to abound on the silver screen, but the movies didn't age well. In fact, they stand almost unchallenged as one of Hollywood's most ridiculous genres. Slate.com's Mark Jordan Legan offers a list of the weirdest and worst beach movies ever made.
Comic Robert Smigel, Master Of 'Triumph' Triumph the Comic Insult Dog's bark may be worse than his bite: The canine puppet has been mocking Hollywood celebrities for over a decade now. Robert Smigel, Triumph's creator, talks about the furry late-night fixture and his other comedy projects.
