“There is nothing more satisfying than revenge…” No, this isn’t a line from the hit ABC show Revenge, in which the protagonist Emily Thorne (born Amanda Clarke) seeks retribution for her father’s murder, but...

The tired cliché of “happily ever after” is aging fast, but viewers need not worry because Maleficent serves up a somewhat refreshing rethink to a dusty story.

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Greer Grammer, an up-and-coming young performer as well as the daughter of Kelsey Grammer, the star of TV’s Frasier. I found her refreshingly open in all her responses, as...

“Jerusalem prays, while Tel Aviv plays,” locals say of the Israeli coastal city famous for its beachfront resorts. And why shouldn’t it? With the azure waters of the Mediterranean hugging its...

Early in Livia De Paolis’ debut film, Emoticon ;), a father tells his teenage son “I want you to know we’re having a family dinner. I want to tell you instead of e-mailing you.” That pretty much sums up the...

In the music world, there are two types of artists: those who simply decided one day to take up a new hobby and run with it, and the rarer kind, those who were nurtured throughout their lives with music. The latter has...

Despite the plethora of amazingly original independent films sparking the interest of film festival-goers worldwide, today’s Hollywood is rife with remakes. From the latest Spiderman, to a new-and-improved Carrie, to...

What does it mean to be alive? To be dead? And what happens when gruesome circumstances arise to entwine these questions? These are the issues at the throbbing center of Marco Bellocchio’s newest...

Gore Vidal (October 3, 1925-July 31, 2012), the brilliant writer and essayist, said about America that “we forget everything.” In Nicholas Wrathall’s impassioned new documentary, Gore Vidal: United States of...

Against the backdrop of Virunga National Park’s serenity and beauty, a crisis stirs. And as Orlando von Einsiedel’s sprawling documentary Virunga portrays, this threat to Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO...