In Before Sunrise (1995), the first installment in director Richard Linklater’s Before series, we saw American goofball Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and passionate, philosophical Frenchwoman Celine (Julie Delpy) embark on...

Every movie about the great American pastime tries to hit a grand slam, even if some don’t deserve a single. You’d think a feature titled Home Run would go big, but despite calling its shot and motioning to the...

Some struggles never grow old and the tug of war between father and son is one of the oldest. In Ramin Bahrani’s new film, At Any Price, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, and starring actors Dennis Quaid and...

Every Monday night, the most impressive mix on ABC’s schedule isn’t that of sequins and celebrities on Dancing with the Stars, but the blend of quirky gusto and clever detective work on the network’s...

Was Bert Stern a lover of women? Yes. Was he a seducer? Yes. And was he a madman? If you take Shannah Laumeister’s appellation for him in her new documentary, Bert Stern, Original Mad Man as a double-entendre,...

“Will the circle be unbroken, by and by, Lord, by and by. There’s a better home a-waiting, in the sky, Lord, in the sky.” The Broken Circle Breakdown begins in musical fashion, with five members of a bluegrass...

Nearly half a century has passed since the Up Series first focused its lens on 14 wide-eyed subjects — then, seven-year-old children (10 boys, four girls) growing up in 1960s Britain. Originally started as an...

As humans, we sometimes forget the little things that bond us together. For instance, the joys of a beautiful sunrise, or the fact that we are four and half months into an existence that does not include an impending...

More so than any film, actor, director or other Hollywood hotshot, it was Uncle Sam who was the big winner at this year’s Academy Awards. Maybe not from the standpoint of a tangible Oscar tally, but certainly...

In the days of Xanax, Zoloft, Prozac, Valium and more magical tablets designed to fix all your problems, it’s easy to forget that these substances aren’t perfect. And, depending on your reasons for popping such...