—Chinese actress Bingbing Li set a new standard for saying less but showing more in her recent movie “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” based on Lisa See’s novel.
Captain Planet, the blue-skinned superhero who uses the elements of the Earth to save the day, will hit the big screens after the producers of Transformers announce their big [...]
The Lord of the Rings fans were happy to hear that Peter Jackson took on the directing role of The Hobbit, a two-part prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has just [...]
Svetlana Geier understands only too well the Finnish and Baltic World War II experience. As the daughter and wife of a Ukrainian kulak purged by Stalin, Geier and her mother [...]
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is recommended to those who appreciate unabashed sentimentality in film. It opens this Friday (7/15) in New York at the Angelika Film Center.
All it took was a little bit of magic, a top hat full of derivative ideas, and a delayed train to London, for J.K. Rowling to create the age, gender, and language transcending [...]
Zen, Masterpiece Mystery on PBS is sleek and stylish like an Italian sports car, but decidedly grubby in its depiction of police corruption, it is feature-quality television.