Cinephiles who, like yours truly, aren't too familiar with the vast, decades-spanning body of work of the late Raúl Ruiz have a lot of catching up to … [Read more...]

How crazy do you have to be to take on Oz at the movies? Victor Fleming shepherded Judy Garland, an army of little people and some exquisite … [Read more...]

He opens the bedroom door, and all the memories of their time together come rushing back like a tidal wave. Entering the room of his Israeli army … [Read more...]

Let's face it: Dr. Barbara Wolff, the main subject of the gripping medical drama Barbara, is not a people person. More often than not, she's making … [Read more...]

Mashups are overstaying their welcome, and not just in the music world. We rode that pop culture wave that reveled in mixing two seemingly … [Read more...]

We're used to the flowers. Not for their pleasing aesthetic qualities, but for the sentiment they express. Be mine. Thank you for a lovely weekend. … [Read more...]

Social change was a topic that took up a lot of airtime and column inches during the political campaigns leading up to last November's presidential … [Read more...]

When we think back on our visit to a particular city, what lingers in the memory isn't always a specific place or event. Random sounds, like the beep … [Read more...]

In the three weeks since I saw Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's riveting chronicle of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, two things have happened. The … [Read more...]