Veteran entertainment jourlalist Elizabeth Guider has been named editor of The Hollywood Reporter. Read more

These women are exquisite. Read more

Opening wide and regionally, with AWJF’s spotlight on women in film: Read more

“Used to be that artists in films were the likes of Vincent van Gogh (Lust for Life) and Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy), suffering and starving for their art,” writes Carrie Rickey. “Today’s artist in cinema is the chef (Babette’s Feast, The Big Night, Spanglish, Ratatouille and No Reservations.” Read more

Even with the decidely cosmopolitan Catherine Zeta-Jones giving a nice turn as an executive chef in a happening Manhattan restaurant, there’s something home-cooked about this remake of the German romantic comedy “Mostly Martha.” Read more

Catherine Zeta-Jones may be the loveliest thing in movies, but she has all the warmth of black ice. Read more

So here you have it — a heaping serving of warmed-over themes: uptight woman meets looser man, childless person has life changed by sudden arrival of child, wide-eyed child faces tragedy and must find happiness again, food as metaphor for love. What was so pleasing about “Mostly Martha” was the way it took familiar territory and made it new. Read more

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “No Reservations” is a slyly sensual, succulent 7, a deliciously delectable froth in which food is the metaphor for love and life. Read more

Arctic Tale, another animal-centric documentary that uses unadulterated authentic footage to give us intimate close up views of a walrus pup and polar bear cub. With these lovable tykes leading the way, the film swims directly and deeply into disturbing environmental issues– like global warming and pollution and, most especially, the shrinking arctic ice. Read more>>

There is so little emotionally or intellectually at stake in most popular entertainment that Goya’s Ghosts, Milos Forman’s challenging, compelling and wildly uneven film, shoots like a cannonball into the solar plexus. Read more