Revelations about the US government’s realms of secrecy and deceit thirty years ago during the Vietnam War are relevant to considerations of how our current government is behaving with regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Read more>>

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Read more »

Vanity Fair can recognize sexism and unfair treatment of women in Hollywood as long as it happened 70 years ago… Read more »

D13 Ultimatum is not subtle. It is, instead, boisterous and noisy and in its way, joyous, its political backdrop merely an occasion for more parkour. Read more>>

You know things have gone from bad to worse when John Travolta starts riffing himself, evoking the far better bang-bang days when he was working with Quentin Tarantino and John Woo. Read more »

Like most recent films from the Luc Besson producing machine, this one is filled with silly asides Read more>>

Best-selling writer Nicholas Sparks tugs at the heartstrings. If you’ve seen “The Notebook,” “Message in a Bottle,” “A Walk to Remember” or “Nights in Rodanthe,” you know that feel-good, romantic weepers are his specialty. Read more »

If Bigelow’s low-budget but excellent independent film has to play the proverbial second fiddle to a mega-blockbuster that has become the top-grossing movie of all time, that’s one thing. That’s life. That’s just the way it is. Money equals power.

But please, for the love of the 19th Amendment, tell me that we’re not going to spend the rest of awards season hearing about the big showdown between Cameron and his ex-wife. Read more>>

The plots of narrative coming of age features often exploit teenagers’ raging hormones and explore the high jinx that are fueled by them. In contrast, Nicole Opper’s coming of age documentary is a serious study about an adolescent’s search for her personal identity. Read more>>

As the first images of the film emphasize—a series of close-ups that show Avery lacing up her running shoes and zipping up her jacket—she is a track star, hoping for a scholarship to go to college. She’s also a young woman trying to sort out, as she writes to her birth mother, “who I am and where I come from.” Read more>>