There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on th….

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwrit….

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our liv….

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality..

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ ….

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others..

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something….

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be whit….

It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awe….

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I me….

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls..

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move..

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly..

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life..

Sometimes, it's all about the casting..

The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate.".

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue..

It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see ho….

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies..

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used ….

It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining..