“Bad Words,” the directing debut of “Arrested Development” star Jason Bateman, walks a familiar tightrope: trying to make a protagonist who is an unapologetic asshole palatable to the audience.  The movie, about a middle-aged man who exploits a looph …Read more

**ATTENTION** The following article contains major spoilers for, well, pretty much every TV show of the past ten years. Proceed at your own caution. This past weekend, “The Good Wife” joined the ranks of shows that killed off a major character with l …Read more

From its blooper-like beginning, the documentary “Finding Vivian Maier” begs you not to take it seriously, which is strange given the ardent effort by director John Maloof to literally develop the work of his eponymous subject. At the movie’s cutesy …Read more

The story of Vivian Maier is a perfect reminder of the adage that says that “truth is stranger than fiction”. By the time of her death in 2009, the lanky French-American nanny seemed to have left nothing behind but a storage room full of useless arti …Read more

With the release of his eighth feature film, I think it is now safer than ever to say that Wes Anderson has reached a point of cinematic perfection. His most ambitious work yet, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, is Anderson’s magnum opus. At its core, “The …Read more

Before his untimely demise in July of last year, Cory Monteith had just started to explore projects outside of the television show that made him famous. The “Glee” star shot two indie films that were both released after his death: the first was the d …Read more

Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by the high quality of “The Hunger Games” series, traumatized enough by the ridiculousness of the “Twilight” franchise or are still holding our breath for what J.K Rowling will come up next, but more and more it feels as if …Read more

This spring, anybody wanting to see the works of auteur filmmakers has been well served by the city’s repertory houses –we’ve got Scorsese and Walsh playing now at BAM, Hitchcock and Truffaut at Film Forum, a Jim Jarmusch retrospective coming up at L …Read more

Do you know what happens when we place our orders at a restaurant?  Do we think about the lives of the MTA workers who make it possible for us to get to our jobs day in and day out?  We say hello to the doormen exchanging small greetings but do we th …Read more

Fans of quality television were left reeling this past year when HBO announced that they were dropping the axe on four beloved shows by canceling freshman comedy “Hello Ladies” and announcing that the upcoming seasons of “Boardwalk Empire”, “The News …Read more