SXSW 2014 Roundup #3

The last 48 hours at SXSW has been fun but exhausting, as I saw 4 movies each day. One could…

SXSW 2014 Roundup #2

I have continued to enjoy my visit to SXSW, although I found myself exhausted yesterday (Tuesday), and took the morning off.…

I am currently in attendance at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival – which encompasses Film, Interactive Technologies and Music – in…

300: Rise of an Empire (Noam Murro, 2014) I gave up video games in college, because they were like crack…

[For those of you who missed the show, here is a link to the podcast: http://wypr.org/post/midday-film-0] It has been 15 years…

[For those of you who missed the show, here is a link to the podcast: http://wypr.org/post/midday-film] Join Host Dan Rodricks and…

Last night, I spoke at PechaKucha Baltimore, where one has to make a presentation using 20 slides, each of which is…

Gloria (Sebastián Lelio, 2013) In the astonishing and powerful new film by Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, the luminous Paulina García –…

Robocop (José Padilha, 2014) Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 Robocop was a masterful blend of violent action thriller and social satire. The film slyly…

The Monuments Men (George Clooney, 2014) The Monuments Men, the story of 7 middle-aged academics who enlist in the Allied-Forces…