Publications

At one point in Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely and Amazing, Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer) is dumped by her boyfriend, Paul (James Le…

Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report — written by Scott Frank from a short story by Philip K. Dick — starts (or…

IN A RECENT REPORT for investors in the biotech industry, the relationship between biotechnology and terrorism is described as follows:…

The Emperor’s New Clothes, adapted from the novel The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys and directed by Alan Taylor…

Sunshine State is a typical John Sayles film. That is to say, it is an eat-your-vegetables movie, a movie that…

When I shed this mortal coil it may surprise St. Peter, on examining my file, to discover that I was…

President Bush has repeatedly asserted that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein must be “removed, by force if necessary.” Many options short of…

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, which is adapted by Jeff Stockwell and Michael Petroni from the novel by the…

In his Holy Thursday letter to priests, Pope John Paul II described clergy sexual abuse as an expression of the…

The last line of the New York Times’s review of Eric Rohmer’s L’anglaise et le duc (The Lady and the…

Pascal said that all human trouble comes from the inability of a man to sit alone at rest in a…

The children sit in a circle under the full moon, having snuck out of the house in the middle of…