The new Battlestar Galactica has done away with bumpy-headed aliens and thespian histrionics. Jonathan Kiefer explains why it's the best "frakking" show on earth.

Catch a Fire and The Last King of Scotland conjure up forgotten Africa

Leonard Cohen live on screen

Can’t we admit that Strangers with Candy sucks?

Are 'Cars' and 'A Prairie Home Companion' basically the same movie?

A quarterly DVD magazine of short films is a good idea.

Seven things I learned about women from Basic Instinct 2, Friends with Money and The Notorious Bettie Page

Pop music stars always make good movie fodder

Steven Okazaki hasn’t heard of you either

The time has come to take William Shatner seriously

The slightly pervy career of Jeremy Irons

You should get to know Ross McElwee

Putting the year’s “best of” lists in perspective

George Clooney and Jeff Daniels, reconsidered

A starlet comes of age

The films Capote and An Angel at My Table feature authors as the protagonists—to great effect

David Cronenberg fakes his way through America’s heartland—and its soul

An open letter to movie-studio marketeers

Why is the filmmaker’s Dylan documentary so good?

Two buzz-inducing movies do wonders with language

What if we can will away the blockbuster?

TV Shows That Shouldn’t Become Movies, Ever

An Appreciation

In Defense of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

An Espionage Thriller That's Not Quite a Miracle, But Close

Up for Grabs could be the best baseball movie of its generation—and, possibly, a major-league bummer

How Horrified Are You Ready to Be?

How do you take your movie? How do you give it?

Notre musique and Gunner Palace

Give Thomas Haden Church That Oscar

Is Clint Eastwood Pulling His Punches?

Al Pacino and the Problem Play

Jumping the Shark

The case for a Christmas classic.

Why Are Indie-Darling Directors So Into Remakes?

Don’t Count on Ray and Kinsey to Be Great, but See Them Anyway

On Garden State

On We Don't Live Here Anymore and Intimate Strangers

A poem

If Only Hollywood's Franchise Feuds Had a Little Imagination

On The Bourne Supremacy and The Manchurian Candidate

The Anti Anti-Heroes of Three New Films

Richard Linklater's Before Sunset

On Spike Lee's Latest Film

Michael Carné's Children of Paradise

Errol Morris's The Fog of War

A movie pilgrimage to the city by the sea

The seminal film noir handbook - half a century late and right on time

Meditations on an all-American franchise

Sometimes, on the hunt for literature, it's hard to tell predator from prey