At the center of Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is an anti-heroine in the style of Tennessee Williams.
Despite all of its hilarity and slapstick, Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday has a serious, dark heart.
What is the task of the journalist, of the homicide detective, of the artist? What are we trying to get to the bottom of, but can’t?
All the President’s Men evokes a quiet, pervasive anguish.
Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy is an extended experiment in embarrassment by proxy.
Murphy Brown’s red blazer. Mary Tyler Moore’s beret. Hildy Johnson’s chevron striped coat with matching hat...
While the style of Paperman evokes a generation gone by, the themes at work are thoroughly contemporary.
She wasn’t an avatar for women’s liberation; she was the real thing. And, in the deft hands of Mary Tyler Moore, she was funny as hell.
Contained within Good Night, and Good Luck is the sense of a turning point.
