"The truth," a character quips in Oscar Wilde's timeless comedy of manners The Importance of Being Earnest, "is rarely pure and never simple." That the speaker is a liar and the character sp  

In Douglas McGrath's Infamous, this year's film about Truman Capote and the creation of In Cold Blood, the writer (an uncanny Toby Jones) and his friend Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock) find th  

Every few years, late in December, I like to revisit my favorite holiday film. It's a bona fide black-and-white classic about a despondent character who attempts suicide on Christmas Eve only to   

Consider the following: "I want angry shows! I want anti-establishment! I want counterculture!" "We're not a responsible network; we're a whorehouse network." "You're talking about putti  

The Writer's Weekend might be InkTank's biggest annual event, but it's far from all they do. The 'Tank's Main Street "World Headquarters" regularly houses an every-other-Thursday writer's   

One of the many remarkable moments in Frida, the new film biography of artist Frida Kahlo, occurs during a wedding sequence. In it we see what appears to be Kahlo's own painted portrait, depictin  

There are many ways to characterize the relationship between Jules Azzi and Andy Wolf: Friends, business partners and musical kindred spirits, they are also mentor and student. Whichever label yo  

Does the theme -- or for that matter, the cultural significance -- of a work of art place it above criticism? Legendary New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael endured criticism for knocking the haile