Inside Job, the new documentary by Charles Ferguson at the Toronto International Film Festival (and now in theaters), sounds like a knock-off of a Quentin Tarantino film. Yet its anything but a testosterone-driven fantasy. This is …

Why come to a festival like the Toronto International film Festival (TIFF) if not to find what Michael Lewis calls “the new new thing” ? One of those things this year is the faith-based film, at …

In preparing for the Toronto International Film Festival and reading some of the press coverage that came out of the Telluride Film Festival, I noticed praise for The Kings Speech by Tom Hooper, starring Colin Firth …

NEW YORK – The news came this week that The American, the latest with George Clooney, took in more than $16 million at the US box office over the Labor Day Weekend. Thats a reflection of …

Remember Pat Tillman? He was the NFL star for the Arizona Cardinals who gave up a $3.6 million contract and enlisted in the Army after 9/11 and served in Iraq, and later Afghanistan. Tillman was killed …

Not to miss is Lucy Walkers new documentary, which  ran at Sundance 2010 – Countdown to Zero, a warning about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the threat of their use, either by terrorists or by …

Remember the myth of Sisyphus – story of a man whos condemned to push a boulder up a mountain, only to watch it roll down again. Its alive and well in Brazil, not too far from …

No longer. Prague hasnt had that status and a $250 million annual film economy since 2003. Now the Czech Republic is vying to reposition itself once again as Europes most desirable place to film high-budget movies …

The US may have led the way in championing the feature documentary ““ non-fiction film, as some like to call it ““ but the Europeans have picked up the lead. As in so many other pursuits, …

One truism of the sci-fi world is that youll never know what will come out of a test-tube until its prehensile tail is strangling you and its claws have punctured your skin. With Splice, which premiered …