The $8,900 Receipt

Ah, “low budget”—the most bogus term in filmmaking! A phrase used as justification for a poor movie and as an obstacle overcome by a great film, one that runs the gamut from…

Apa-told you once…

“From the guys who brought you The 40-Year-Old Virgin” is getting to be like the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for comedy films. Judd Apatow has only directed one movie […]

Chung-chung!

“America’s Next Top Model”Wednesday 8pm, CW We’re down to our final six, and at this point we can call it: Cycle 10 is the best this show has been in […]

Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town21 (PG-13, 123 minutes) Inspired by the book Bringing Down the House, this fact-based (let’s not go all the way to “true”) story introduces us to hotshot […]

Numbered days

If someone started out by telling you that 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a bleak drama about abortion, shot in Romania and set during the Communist era, […]

Feeling the heat

“Top Chef”Wednesday 10pm, BravoWith last week’s stunning news that “Project Runway” is jumping ship to Lifetime (and seriously, how nuts is that?), Bravo desperately needs to keep its second-best reality […]

The boxer’s dream

Leslie Banta’s memory of her nightmare is very sharp, the details burned into her brain, possibly furrowed somewhere near those loops and wrinkles that inform her work as an artist. […]