An adopted transvestite searches for Mom but runs into everything else
By Bill Gallo,
December 29, 2005
The gifted Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) says that his overriding concern is "how individuals work... More>>
In 1968 it was a movie. In 2001 it became a musical. Now it's a movie again? Yes, and there's actually good reason to return The Producers to the... More>>
Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long
By Robert Wilonsky,
December 15, 2005
For whatever reason, the modernized, comic redo of King Kong released exactly 29 years ago has become less the "pop classic" that Pauline Kael... More>>
This romantic tragedy about two lean, wind-burned cowpokes (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) who secretly live to poke each other probably won't... More>>
Brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth
By Robert Wilonsky,
December 08, 2005
Warner Bros. plunked $50 million into Syriana and allowed writer-director Stephen Gaghan as much time and travel as necessary to research and... More>>
A Broadway schmaltzfest spawns a big-screen travesty
By Melissa Levine,
November 24, 2005
Ever since its Broadway debut in 1996, Rent has generated a loyal, almost cultlike following. Showered with praise, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... More>>
Harold Ramis's Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper
By Robert Wilonsky,
November 24, 2005
Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) is a big-time attorney in a small-time town looking to make a break for it on Christmas Eve, so he and porn-makin'... More>>