A lonely, working-class British teen falls under the thrall of an odd, aristocratic family in “Brideshead Revisited,” the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s acclaimed 1946 novel. Stellar performances and magnificent period details help the movie overcome some directorial miscues and a jarring score. Read more>>

It’s revisiting “Brideshead Revisited,” since many vividly remember that lavish, 11-episode British mini-series first shown on PBS in 1982 and released on DVD in 2006. Read more

Ostensibly a political satire with a heart of mush, Joshua Michael Stern hopelessly muddled film cries out for the firm hand of either a dyed-in-the-wool cynic like Billy Wilder, who would have put some teeth in its jabs at amoral politicians and blindly ambitious journalists, or the steely humanism of a Frank Capra, whose tales of ordinary folks thrust into extraordinary situations are far sharper than the term “Capra-corn” would suggest. Read more>>

The primaries are over and the Presidential election looms ahead. So how important is your vote? Read more

Director Paul Weiland’s slight comedy-drama revolves around a 12-year-old who has the misfortune to find his much-anticipated bar mitzvah falling on the same day as the 1966 World Cup Final. Read more>>

“Here we go again,” sighs intrepid adventurer Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser), turning his sights on China. Read more

Congratulates to the seven women celebrated on Filmmaker Magazine’s latest “25 New Faces of Independent Film” list. They are: Read more

On a panel at Comic-Con, actress Eliza Dushku explained that her new series began when she was was having dinner with her friend, Joss Whedon (of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly”). She was complaining to him about not being given a chance to show all of the range of characters she could do. Read more

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women Read more

Men write the overwhelming majority of film reviews in the nation’s top newspapers. In Fall 2007, men penned 70% and women 30% of all reviews. Furthermore, of the newspapers featuring film reviews, 47% had no reviews written by women critics, writers or freelancers. In contrast, only 12% had no reviews written by men critics, writers or freelancers. Read more