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As Rusty in “Flawless” (1999). © 1999-Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, Inc.-All rights reserved.

Philip Seymour Hoffman: An appreciation

Philip Seymour Hoffman was an actor who turned out to be better at inhabiting his characters' skin than his own.

Susan Beth Lehman

Feb 10, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Rampling (left), Bogarde in "The Night Porter": The attractions of sadism.

‘Hannah Arendt’: A gender issue (follow-up)

Seduced and deceived: Can we talk, please, about women and Nazis?

Could it be that both Hannah Arendt and her film biographer Margarethe von Trotta shared a degree of attraction to sadistic men that led them both to overlook the evil sadism in men like Adolf Eichmann?

Victor L. Schermer

Feb 07, 2014 Articles 6 minute read

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007)

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s fade to black

The life of Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday, resembles his art a little too closely, unfortunately.

Tara Lynn Johnson

Feb 02, 2014 Articles 2 minute read

Judi Dench, Steve Coogan in 'Philomena': Another country, another pregnancy.

Stephen Frears’s ‘Philomena’ (2nd comment)

When the Church did something right: A social worker’s story

Philomena deservedly paints the Catholic Church in its most deceptive and manipulative light. But my experience with the U.S. Church in the 1960s was a very different story.

SaraKay Smullens

Jan 27, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Martin Luther King at Riverside Church

When MLK broke with LBJ

Tavis Smiley’s two-part program on the Riverside Church speech in which Martin Luther King denounced the Vietnam War was a welcome exception to the annual ritual that diminishes King’s actual legacy.

Robert Zaller

Jan 27, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

"I dunno, Bradley, what do you like for Best Picture?"

Oscars you can bet on

How I spent my snow days and learned to love them

If you haven't finalized your picks in this year's Oscar pool, here's one man's take.

Armen Pandola

Jan 25, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Stephen Frears's ‘Philomena’ (1st review)

An outrage in Ireland, but who’s responsible?

Stephen Frears’s Philomena is the true story of an outrage, but it suffers dramatically by focusing almost entirely on the anguished victims rather than the perpetrators.

Dan Rottenberg

Jan 20, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Martin Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street'

Why do we love wolves?

Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is well on its way to making more than $100 million. The fact that it’s a hit should not surprise anyone. Bad guys sell tickets.

Armen Pandola

Jan 20, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) may not have provided perspective to Tony (James Gandolfini), but she did for the viewer.

The end of the television antihero

Breaking up with the bad boy

Many are calling this a Golden Age of Television, with a plethora of dramas examining morally complex antiheroes. How complex are they, really, though?

Paula Berman

Jan 16, 2014 Articles 5 minute read