May 22nd, 2008 · A British journalist, an American nurse and a Chinese partisan join forces to protect 60 orphaned children in war-torn 1930s China. Roger Spottiswoode's movie is inspired by a true story — but itself turns out to be thoroughly uninspired.
Nov 16th, 2007 · Movie studios look to new and more sophisticated 3D technology to provide thrills. There are new opportunities with 3D such as having the audience feel the same claustrophobia of the onscreen character trapped in a dank dungeon.
Sep 15th, 2007 · Smell-O-Vision, a system that pumped scents into movie houses that matched actions onscreen, was largely abandoned after the late1950s. The Boston Children's Museum wants to revive Smell-O-Vision with showings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory this fall.
Jun 9th, 2006 · Our film critic reviews A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman's film adaptation of Garrison Keillor's long-running public radio show.
Feb 6th, 2006 · Sanaa Lathan talks about her new film, Something New, and parallels between her onscreen portrayal of a harried urban professional and her real life. Something New follows the story of a Lathan's character, an attorney, who starts an unlikely romance with a white landscape architect.
Oct 18th, 2005 · The film Innocent Voices tells the story of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. Co-writer Oscar Torres escaped to the United States from his native land and lived through the events dramatized onscreen.
Aug 15th, 2005 · Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Edward J. Epstein about the decline of sexual nudity in films over the last few decades. Epstein says film studios are being pressured by the DVD and television markets to offer less salacious films.
Sep 25th, 2004 · The 2004 New Yorker Festival begins next weekend -- NPR's Scott Simon talks to actors Stanley Tucci and Cynthia Nixon, both panelists on a festival session entitled "The Method: Acting Onstage and Onscreen."