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>>

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

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>>

The movie doesn’t exactly care about Beth’s career ambitions—why she’s good at what she does or why she likes doing it. Suffice it to say, as she does more than once, that she’s looking for a man she can love more tan her job. Read more>>

Having been absent from the screen as an actor since “Signs,” Mel Gibson unleashes his anger in this violent revenge-fueled thriller, playing a grief-stricken veteran homicide detective whose 24 year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is gunned down in his arms on the doorstep of his Boston home. Read more

Tommy Craven (Mel Gibson) is mad. You know because he furrows his brow, stares into space, slams bad guys through walls, and shoots at oncoming cars without even thinking of ducking. Read more>>