Call it the curse of high expectations but when Jerry Seinfeld makes his first animated feature, laughs should flow like honey but they don’t - unless you’re really into bee puns. Read more

Twenty-year-old actor Ash Christian’s writing and directing debut is a shaggy, amiable gay coming-of-age tale that is more than a little reminiscent of NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004). Read more

Highlighting films made by and about women: Read more

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is pleased to announce that the 2007 AWFJ EDA Awards will be presented in the following categories: Read more

Though not exactly a valentine to the octogenarian Nobel Peace Prize winner, the film is a lovingly rendered, candid and intimate portrait. Read more

Jonathan Demme has produced an unusually intimate, insightful and revealing tribute to an exceptional elder statesman who, now in his 80s, continues to work tirelessly for peace.
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Jonathan Demme’s leisurely documentary is as much about the thorny subject of the 39th president’s 2006 book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid as it is a portrait of the peanut farmer/nuclear physicist turned professional humanitarian from Plains, Georgia. Read more

Years ago, as a wedding present, dear friends took my husband and me to spend a weekend with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. It was a revelation. I had never seen our 39th President in such an informal, approachable setting – and now Jonathan Demme has captured Carter’s sharp intelligence and homespun candor on film. Read more

He was the ultimate Harlem gangster. The New York Times Magazine dubbed Leroy “Nicky” Barnes Mr. Untouchable, and he lived large on the millions of dollars he made as head honcho in Harlem’s heroin trade. Read more

While director Marc Levin Levin gives Barnes and his former associates a respectable forum in which to expound on their grandiose code of the streets, he also gives them ample opportunity to hang themselves with their own self-justifying braggadocio. Read more