Apparently, Arbitrage is getting some Oscars notice. True, said “notice” may consist primarily of its own PR team, but Couch Baron and I decided to check it out, mostly to see if yet another “high-finance …

What is film fiber? It’s the movies I feel it’s necessary to have watched in order to participate in the cultural conversation. Canon, in other words, and whether it’s good or enjoyable isn’t the point. …

I got a promotional email about Margin Call from Lincoln Center, and incorrectly assumed I could only see it there, therefore braving a Saturday audience at the Elinor Bunin Monroe Theater — a lovely facility …

It seems like more than a few seventies movies have lines of dialogue in which girls swoon over Al Pacino. A quick search only revealed the one, the girl in Saturday Night Fever who sighs …

Miss Alli addresses James Spader’s underthought character in Wall Street, and much much more.   It’s a great piece, and the various bigger-than-a-breadbox-sized objects she uses to describe Gekko’s cell phone crack me up, but …

A hair away from 67K at this writing.   Don’t forget: at 75K, a match kicks in automatically.   You know the “Double Your Impact” notices you may have seen on certain projects?   The …

The first installment of a mini-movie series about the works of Oliver Stone is now live at the Museum of the Moving Image website.   Co-produced by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz, the …