Rafael Navarro

Night and the City is a movie about bruisers and losers. Robert De Niro plays Harry Fabian, a perennially hopeful ambulance-chasing attorney living in New York City's SoHo district, who decides -- later in life and for no apparent reason -- to realize dreams of hitting the big time. What...

Long before film critic Michael Medved became the insipid defender of family values and de facto darling of the Quayle campaign he is today, he had something a critic desperately needs or he's dead in the water, a quirky sense of humor. Medved, with the help of his brother Harry,...

Never having been particularly enamored of fly fishing, male bonding, or Presbyterianism, I did not read Norman Maclean's autobiographical novella, A River Runs Through It, until very recently -- and only then to coincide with the film version directed by Robert Redford and at the prodding of some friends who...

To enter Ridley's Scott's 1492: Conquest of Paradise and its phantasmagoric fifteenth-century world, you will need to check your piddling prerequisites at the door. Historical scholarship, stylistic authenticity, narrative cohesion -- attributes the dull, unsophisticated mind might expect in a portrait of Christopher Columbus and his times -- are deemed...

I had the privilege of attending two Bob Marley concerts in my life. Both were in the Seventies and in England, an island not as far removed from Marley's own, Jamaica, as their different climates and race denominations would indicate. The English worshiped Marley's outsized personality and were equally captivated...