Your Independent Movie Guide
[ BEST FILM (SUNDANCE): ] "Pi" This beatifully shot black and white film proves intelligent science fiction can be achieved as an independent film. ...
Remember when the name Francis Ford Coppola made you think "greatness"? Well, until "The Rainmaker", one would have to surmise that this "greatness" had...
Athens, Georgia is cool. The city that spawned bands like the B-52s and R.E.M. now has its own film festival and it's about time. In October, I travelled...
While far from exceptional, Miramax's Life is Beautiful (La Vita È Bella) disc is beautiful enough. The not-so-bad English dub of Roberto Benigni's...
The Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel was a miracle of skylighted lobbies, peppy graphic designs and skirted trade booths. And about a thousand...
[ Sat., April 19: ] Arrive in Big "D" from Los Angeles with Mom in tow. We're here for the screening of my movie, "Former Child Star," a minor motion...
Join us as a cynical, hard-drinking, blue-haired film critic is inflicted upon an unsuspecting Texas town. A smaller kid brother to the much larger SXSW...
I've been besieged daily with E-mails and letters asking me one simple question: what did I think of "The People Versus Larry Flynt"? As many of you know,...
While many people offer hard-luck stories about their "humble" beginnings to boost their perceived success, Sylvester Stallone's journey to becoming one of...
Washington and Zwick reteamed seven years after Glory to tackle another American war--the Gulf War--in the non-fact-based "Courage Under Fire," and the...