Walkabout

A common refrain mentioned in reviews of immaculately shot films states, "You could take a frame of this movie and hang it in an art ga...

The A-Team

I don't know what it says about America's state of consciousness when a loopy blockbuster like the A-Team remake includes a severe ...

A Man Escaped

For those uninitiated with the work of Robert Bresson, the very title of his 1956 masterpiece, A Man Escaped , may suggest a hopeful movie. ...

Get Him to the Greek

Early in Get Him to the Greek , an unlikely spin-off of Apatow Productions' most emotionally rewarding feature to date, Forgetting Sarah...

Van Morrison — Astral Weeks

(This review cross-posted at Sputnikmusic.com) Van Morrison's Astral Weeks , his first "proper" solo album after departing pop...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

The loners in Sam Peckinpah's films are not noble Romantics, even if they are as symbolic as anyone in John Ford's late Westerns. Pe...

Brian De Palma: Get to Know Your Rabbit

For his first film to be made for a major film studio (Warner Bros.), Brian De Palma decided to make a film about financial security and the...