With Oscar buzz filling the air and moviegoers recounting the year’s most thought-provoking films, the play “Speed-the-Plow” focuses its audience instead on the more unscrupulous pursuits underlying the film business. Read more...

If real men don’t eat quiche, then what do they eat? “Meat!” announces world arts and cultures professor Michael Owen Jones in an excessively deep, rumbling voice, as he hunches over a table peering aggressively toward his students. Read more...

When one thinks of Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and presidential candidate, the first word that comes to mind is probably not “sitcom.” But it was for Steve Skrovan. Read more...

“The Lives of Others” Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Sony Pictures Classics Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s directorial debut, “The Lives of Others,” poses several weighty questions. Read more...

“The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun” Director Pernille Rose Grønkjær First Hand Films Love can blossom in the strangest ways. And “The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun” is as unexpected and unconventional a love story as one could possibly imagine. Read more...

At first glance, the three-hour, Oscar-winning “Titanic” and the 93-minute, Emmy-winning Disney Channel Original Movie “High School Musical” look like they have nothing in common. Besides, of course, hot male leads (Leonardo DiCaprio and newcomer Zac Efron, respectively) causing a mad rush among 13-year-old girls to find magazines with tear-out posters of their pretty faces. Read more...

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