Ewan McGregor drew me into The Ghost Writer when I first heard about it a couple weeks ago. I’ve always been a fan since I first saw him in Shallow Grave back in ’94. Beyond that, a movie about a ghost writer caught up in a conspiracy around his subject...
Timothy Olyphant is the reason I wanted to see The Crazies. I don’t usually get all excited for scary looking movies, but I like Olyphant and the virus-making-people-crazy plot didn’t seem like it would give me nightmares for days. I’m glad I took...
One of Twyla Tharp’s most widely seen works is the choreography she did for the film version of Hair in 1979. Here’s the opening number from the film, “Aquarius.” Tharp even gets the horses to dance.
I’ve been looking forward to Dear John since I saw the trailer last fall. I’m a sucker for a film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel since The Notebook and this movie did not let me down. In the same way that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams were perfect in...
Tom Ford, best known as a designer and creative director for Gucci and then his own brand, branched into feature films as a director and co-screenwriter for A Single Man. The film, based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, follows a day in the life of college...