Home Alone brought us the comic holiday tale of the “Wet Bandits” (rejigged as the “Sticky Bandits” in the second installment), a duo of inept, small-time crooks who can’t seem to get the better of young...

“I’m just a little guy, I can’t do anything,” apes Dr. Mathilde Krim, the pioneering research scientist who was one of the first to tackle HIV/AIDS. Describing the thinking of the vast majority of the public...

Crawling inside the mind of an artist can be like crawling inside the thickets of a magical forest where fireflies flicker, owls screech and unrecognizable shadows taunt the imagination. Much like secrets of the...

In Before Sunrise (1995), the first installment in director Richard Linklater’s Before series, we saw American goofball Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and passionate, philosophical Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delpy) embark on...

Want to get away? Forget the tagline of a rather large American airline from the past decade. It doesn’t fly anywhere close to where you really want to go. It’s not Venice. It’s not Paris. It’s not Sydney...

Every movie about the great American pastime tries to hit a grand slam, even if some don’t deserve a single. You’d think a feature titled Home Run would go big, but despite calling its shot and motioning to the...

Some struggles never grow old and the tug of war between father and son is one of the oldest. In Ramin Bahrani’s new film, At Any Price, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, and starring actors Dennis Quaid and...

Every Monday night, the most impressive mix on ABC’s schedule isn’t that of sequins and celebrities on Dancing with the Stars, but the blend of quirky gusto and clever detective work on the network’s...

Was Bert Stern a lover of women? Yes. Was he a seducer? Yes. And was he a madman? If you take Shannah Laumeister’s appellation for him in her new documentary, Bert Stern, Original Mad Man as a double-entendre,...

“Will the circle be unbroken, by and by, Lord, by and by. There’s a better home a-waiting, in the sky, Lord, in the sky.” The Broken Circle Breakdown begins in musical fashion, with five members of a bluegrass...