Category: Reviews

Sometimes it’s the values filmmakers take for granted that reveal the most about cultural trends. Take “Step Up 3D,” for example, the most recent of …

“The Expendables” should have been the best action film of the summer. Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone and rumored to star some of the …

“Inception” is one of the most complex and intelligent films to come along in quite a while. On one level it is an intense and …

“Micmacs” is the latest film from the whimsical and often surreal imagination of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Amelie,” “A Very Long Engagement,” “Delicatessen”). Jeunet likes to explore …

For nearly 70 years, a war of words has been fought over the question of whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his top associates, especially …

Joe Overton was a well respected young leader at a Michigan-based thinktank. Tragically, he died in 2003 in an ultralight aircraft accident at the age …

As a boy, I had a fantasy of living off the land. It was an unformed idea, a mixture of Huckleberry Finn and making camps …

Who is John Galt? Apparently he is not going to be Brad Pitt. After waiting nearly half a century for the perfect script, perfect cast, …

It’s always fun when Angelina Jolie makes a new movie. I just love to trash her. Her self-righteous celebrity overshadows any chance of nuanced acting. …

Three things caught my eye about this book. The first was the statement in the subtitle that Wall Street had betrayed capitalism. The second was …