Kagemusha

The story of Akira Kurosawa's fall from grace is one of the more depressing in the annals of cinema. He never suffered half the indignit...

Natural Born Killers

Before a young, hyperactive video clerk by the name of Quentin Tarantino became, for better or worse, the icon of American independent cinem...

The Top 10 Arrested Development Episodes

[Warning -- contains spoilers] When it comes to TV comedy, I, like any good elitist, tend to cite British programs before American series. H...

The Brothers Bloom

It's perfectly possible that The Brothers Bloom , despite its erroneous title -- one of the brothers is named Bloom, and neither seems t...

Séraphine

A few months ago I heard about a theater in Columbus, GA (about 40 miles from Auburn) that dedicated one screen to showings of foreign and i...

Michael Jackson's This Is It

I must admit before I start that Michael Jackson's death didn't rattle me all that much. I knew almost nothing about the man, enjoye...

Stalker

After viewing Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker a second time, I cannot say with any certainty that I understand it more than I did the first:...