Who Takes Care of You?

As a high school movie, Charlie Bartlett is not all that unfamiliar

Danger: Trust Ahead

In many ways, Vantage Point is like a puzzle. Its story is told through scattered pieces that come together as the movie unfolds. At the beginning, it is as if the bullet that went through the President

The Star Inside Us All

The story of Be Kind Rewind is simple. In the small town of Passaic, New Jersey, the local still-VHS-based video store Be Kind Rewind struggles to survive. The only non-employees in the store on a regular basis are junkyard worker and troublemaker Jerry (Jack Black) and Ms. Kimberly (Mia Farrow), a loyal, if a bit behind the times, friend of the store

Music (and Life) at the Crossroads

Legend has it that blues great Robert Johnson met the devil at a crossroads at midnight and traded his soul for a guitar on which he could play anything he wanted. It seems such crossroads find their ways into every life.

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Predictions Roundtable

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Making a Home for a Stranger

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation starts off as if it were going to be a new version of Home Alone, but it turns out that in this case, the child at the center of the movie is neither at home nor alone.

In 1970, as Brazil is under a military dictatorship, Mauro

Where Would You Rather Be?

Walking through a parking lot the other day, I saw a bumper sticker that read

Searching for Sincerity

Just as there are certain stars who make me want to see their movies, so are there certain stars who make me want to avoid their movies at all costs. Especially when one of those stars is actually the star of the film, the part they play might as well be them in real life, their name happens to be Paris Hilton, and the name of the film is The Hottie and the Nottie.

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Finding Belonging Through Dance

Like many other dance movies, Step 2 The Streets begins with a death in the family of the main character. In a voiceover, Andie (Briana Evigan) tells us that when she was 16, her mom died of cancer. She talks about how she always wanted to be a dancer and how her mother always encouraged her in that dream. She remembers the words her mom said to her not long before her diagnosis:

The Quest for Greater Things

The story of Fool