Podcast: Download We Need to Talk About Kevin,  is Lynne Ramsey’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel about a mother’s painful perspective on a bloody killing by an angry teenager, her son. It’s not for the fainthearted, …

Podcast: Download The Descendants by Alexander Payne, adapted from a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, is a heartfelt portrait of a man in middle age who learns about himself, his family, and the beauty around him …

As the year of film festivals gives way to a stampede of hype for annual awards, eyes are now directed toward the Sundance Film Festival. Having been at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, I got an …

Podcast: Download It took eight screenwriters to make Tower Heist. After a few minutes, you’ll wonder what it takes to make this Brett Ratner film go away. In a Manhattan luxury tower, the building employees learn …

Podcast: Download David D’Arcy reviews Margin Call, a long dark night in the offices of an investment bank that cheats its customers and everyone else .  

Clyfford Still still lives – in bigger numbers than ever. Tonight at Sotheby’s in New York, four paintings by Still brought more than $114 million. The paintings, consigned by the city of Denver to raise money …

A Klimt landscape that that hadn’t been since the late 1930’s by the man whose family owned it before the Nazi Era sold for $40 million last Wednesday night at Sotheby’s in New York. The sale …

In 1656, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) went bankrupt. These were the pre-Gagosian days, when artists themselves mismanaged their own affairs. An  inventory of Rembrandt’s property was compiled, which included three paintings of Jesus, “painted from …

Podcast: Download From the New York Film Festival, David D’Arcy reviews The Skin I live In, the latest camp-horror tale from Pedro Almodovar. Antonio Banderas plays a plastic surgeon, teaming up with Almodovar for the first …

George Harrison: Living in the Material World, a documentary by Martin Scorsese (at the New York Film Festival- later to air on HBO) Quiet George Harrison was the least-scrutinized of the Beatles, unless you cared about Indian …