As with many popular films, Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables received a mixed
critical response. The movie was guaranteed to garner attention no matter what,
using as its source material a beloved musical,
Every now and then in the history of the arts, someone creates something so
radical that it changes the direction of its genre. An artist, often anonymous,
stumbles across, say, counterpoint, or a
In the opening moments of the first episode of Judd Apatow’s television cult
classic, Freaks and Geeks, the camera pans across a high school football field
to capture some “jocks” practicing, pauses
There is a scene in Steven Spielberg’s new film Lincoln in which abolitionist
Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones, clearly relishing every moment) stares down
his Democratic opponents in the House of Representatives
Life of Pi, Ang Lee’s new film based on the 2001 fantasy adventure novel by Yann
Martel, tackles the uncinematic tale of a teenage boy surviving at sea with a
Bengal tiger.
