It’s True: A Charming German Love Story, With Great Food

Sandra Nettelbeck’s Mostly Martha, from her own screenplay, is a minor miracle: a German movie that is at the same time a literally and figuratively delicious entertainment of prodigious charm, warmth and decency. Granted, this is a film that tells us absolutely nothing new about the problems that face us and is shamelessly hedonistic about Read More

Eastwood Shows He Still Has Heart

Stoic and wooden as a totem, Clint Eastwood is back. In a time of need, he’s the man. Another serial killer is on the prowl, and the star, producer and director plays a retired F.B.I. profiler with a heart transplant who takes on the dirty job despite the obvious danger to his health, searching for Read More