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PAUL COWAN WHOSE EMOTIONALLY CHARGED, INVENTIVELY CRAFTED FILM WESTRAY TOOK THIS YEAR'S GENIE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, SEES MOVIEMAKING AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO STEP INTO LIVES RADICALLY DIFFERENT FROM HIS OWN. […]

THERE ARE MORE screens and fewer films shown on them theatrically in Australia now than at any time in the history of the medium. You'll notice I wrote 'screens', not [...]

Bear with me while I over whelm you with some lists. Here's the first: Tolstoy, Twain, Proust, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Borges. These are authors who never received the Nobel Prize for [...]

Jennifer Aniston asks, 'What part of Kanata are you from?' She means Canada, but she's tired. This is the last interview of the day for Mike White, Miguel Arteta and [...]

The criticism of immorality about the videogame 'Grand Theft Auto IV' is considered unwarranted. It is argued that the game allows an open ended environment that allows players to nurture social relationships and feel a range of emotions in addition to indulging in virtual violence.

The near-absence of film criticism in English-speaking countries in the 1950s, its rise in the 1960s and its decline after 1968 are discussed.

Everybody wants to be a box office rock star when it comes to predicting how much a movie is going to make in its opening weekend. Unfortunately, it's not an [...]

The latest installment in Hollywood's tangled relationship with film critics could be titled 'Indiana Jones and the Crush of Early Reviews.' Since the fourth 'Indy' whipped up a storm of [...]

Summer truly is the winter of a film critic's discontent, the time when we are annually forced to confront the serious possibility of our own irrelevance. Even if one took [...]

According to a characteristically witty character in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, 'Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.' Something analogous could be said of [...]

Nearly every time Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr met for a beer, they argued about two things: space-time and the movies. Einstein believed that a movie could give a complete [...]

AUSTRALIAN FANS of the Nine Network's late-night White House drama series The West Wing were on tenterhooks for months. Will President Josiah Bartlett run again or won't he? We now [...]

Film critics such as New York Times' Caryn James have been analyzing movie characters based on their being archetypal figures instead of criticizing them in the context of the film plots. Thus, it seem that films will be given rave reviews if the characters veer away from stereotypes., My favorite politically correct critic and commentator on film, Caryn James of The New York Times, had a bad moment recently. In writing about a film she otherwise loved, Sally [...]

NEW YORK Jonas Watchmen Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Studio Disney Paramount Release date Feb. 27 March 6 Variety.com review date Feb. 26 Feb. 27 Entertainment Weekly MIXED MIXED NBC/' [...]

Dr. Seuss offers much more than silly rhymes, some say. Prolife activists showed up to the Denver premiere of Horton Hears a Who (Blue Sky Studios) this spring to sing […]

MY CLASS IN FILM THEORY keys upon the dichotomy of realism versus formalism. The former approach accents con. tent over style and attempts to tell its story without drawing attention [...]

'Ratatouille,' 'Away From Her' and 'Once' topped Rotten Tomatoes' compilation list of the 25 best-reviewed movies from the first six months of the year. The leading titles on the 10-worst […]

ROME -- The Roman Catholic Church roundly condemned veteran helmer Marco Bellocchio's new pic 'The Religion Hour' on Friday -- the day of its domestic release. Clerics claim the pic, [...]

Several years ago, in the midst of a literary midlife crisis, I asked the readers of B00klist to send me the titles of five books that they felt everyone should [...]

JUNE 17, 2001. In a muddy field in the north of England near a giant slag heap, British film director Mike Figgis is engulfed in a crowd of picketers who [...]

Ever since film criticism became a respectable pursuit in the 1920s, critics have both incurred and encouraged a reputation for being not only arbiters of taste and opinion, but also [...]

Movie critics use hyperbole when reviewing films. However, critic John Whaley's use of hyperbole is considered excessive, as shown by his comments on 20 movies.