Rebuilding My Father’s House: An Architect’s Son Pays Respects

Nathaniel Kahn’s My Architect: A Son’s Journey , produced by Susan Rose Behr and Mr. Kahn, towers on the screen, both literally and figuratively. It’s the most insightful and informative nonfiction film that I’ve seen, at least since Mark Moskowitz’s Stone Reader back in February, and possibly within my moviegoing memory. Nonfiction cinema has taken Read More

Crowe Is Master Of Briny Boy’s Domain

Ahoy, matey! You are 12 years old and back on the briny, so fully engrossed in the sweat-soaked pages of your dog-eared copy of Captain Horatio Hornblower you don’t even hear your mom calling you to dinner. You have never heard of computer technology, you have not yet cynically lost the ability or the imagination Read More

Stay Home and Watch X-Files Reruns

In a summer where the most important event may turn out to be the release of the magically restored version of Gone With the Wind , here are a few of the new second-tier entries.

Dedicated to the theory that you aren’t getting your weekly allowance of trash on television, the makers of The X-Files Read More