examine the ethics and psychology that propels these real-life thrill-seekers to risk life and limb on a daily, if not hourly basis. Instead, he romanticizes their reckless derring-do. Read more

USA TODAY’s Susan Wloszczyna, a founding member of AWFJ, found the topic of women in film alive and well and much discussed at the 13th Sarasota Film Festival this year. Her exclusive report: Read more

Whenever you enter a national park or wildlife preserve, think about John Muir, and thank him. This wonderful biographical documentary about the great American environmentalist who established national wildlife preserves and the Sierra Club, will tell — and show — you why. Read more>>

Landmark Theatres, owners art and alt movie houses nationwide, has put its 63 properties up on the auction block. What does this mean for art films? Read more>>

Born To Be Wild invites you on a thrilling IMAX 3D cinematic safari to wild animal ‘orphanages’ in Kenya and Borneo to visit with baby elephants and orangutans whose parents have died — most often at the hands of poachers — and learn about the handlers who nuture them until they’re mature enough to return to the wild. Read more>>

After John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on a Good Friday, April 15, 1865, the search was on for the Southern sympathizers who not only planned his murder but also attempts on the lives of Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Read more

I would highly recommend this film, however, I think like me, most viewers will be appalled and ashamed of our country’s lack of fairness at the final outcome of The Conspirator. Read more>>

Green-eyed goddess Alida Valli played Ayn Rand’s alter ego, Kira, in the 1942 adaptation of the autobiographical novel We the Living. Kentucky filly Patricia Neal played Rand’s alter ego, Dominique Francon, in the 1950 adaptation of The Fountainhead. Over the years many actresses, notably Angelina Jolie, craved the part of Dagny Taggert, strong-willed heroine of Rand’s magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. Rand’s choice to play the railroad magnate? Read more>>

“I hope you laugh” is what stays in my mind. Read more>>

If you think winning the lottery will solve all your problems, think again. And, Jeffrey Blitz’s compelling documentary will help you to do so. Read more>>