SIFF Take: Food, Inc.
The converted were well and truly preached to at the Egyptian Sunday night with Food, Inc., a documentary by Robert Kenner that distills the excellent…
SIFF 2009: Family Picture Show
My latest SIFF adventure was extra special for me because it was my son’s very first movie in a movie theater. We went to see…
SIFF Take: Gotta Dance
A couple of years ago, the New Jersey Nets (a pro basketball team for the non-sporty of you) decided to add a new dance team…
SIFF Take: Encounters at the End of the World
Will I have my indie cred revoked if I admit that Encounters at the End of the World is the first Werner Herzog movie I’ve…
Cafe de los Maestros
It'll take a will stronger than mine to avoid summarizing Cafe de Los Maestros as a Buena Vista Social Club featuring Argentine tango in place…
Pride & Prejudice
Director Joe Wright took at least a medium-sized risk tackling the latest big screen version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Not only is it…
The Baxter
"Before you say any more you need to know that I am also reading the dictionary." It seems a bit churlish to pick at a…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
It makes a lot of sense that Tim Burton would want to make a movie based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In…
War of the Worlds
"I'm not gonna be exterminated." Sometimes I wish I were Steven Spielberg. He can make a film that steals shamelessly, even shamefully, from his existing movies…
Sin City
"It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes that means killing a whole lotta people." As I…