soul food movies

Currently (or very soon to be currently) on screen at Vancouver-area theatres Updated May 30 2007 Summer's here, and movie-wise, the liv...

A friend emailed me asking for films that deal with grieving. He had come up with the top two on the following list: the rest come from fri...

Week before last, my first trip to New York City! Amazing. Great company, great theatre, great food, great galleries, great music, great c...

I would like to watch a movie tonight in which a stranger rides into town or where someone embarks on a long journey, a movie with the promi...

UPDATE: Opens in Vancouver (Fifth Avenue) on Friday, April 13, 2007 The March-April Film Comment includes a Joumane Chahine review of AFTER ...

Okay, it's usually Videomatica I blab about, hereabouts. But when it comes to buying your own copies of movies cheap, you wanna haunt th...

TEARS OF THE SUN (2003, USA, Antoine Fuqua) I can't look at them like packages any more. An elite squadron of U.S. troops sets out t...

GROUNDHOG DAY (1993, USA, Harold Ramis, wr Danny Rubin & Ramis) What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exact...

LE DIABLE PROBABLEMENT ("The Devil Probably" 1977, France, Robert Bresson) My sickness is that I see clearly. Bresson's ...

AU HASARD BALTHAZAR ("Balthazar, By Chance," 1966, France, Robert Bresson) Bresson: It is about our anxieties and desires when f...

A MAN ESCAPED (1956, France, Robert Bresson) We’ll meet up. In another life, maybe. In this life. Have faith. Have faith in your hooks and r...

THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (2005, USA, Mary Harron, screenplay with Guinevere Turner) O Father, we ask that you deliver this woman from sin. ...

STRANGER THAN FICTION (2006, Marc Forster, Zach Helm screenplay) You don't understand that this isn't a story to me, it's my lif...

PAN’S LABYRINTH (“El Labertinto del fauno,” 2006, Mexico/Spain/USA, Guillermo del Toro) A long time ago, in the underground realm, where the...