Micmacs is an extravagantly ambitious blend of Charlie Chaplin's silent City Lights and Modern Times, Jacques Tati's clever but impersonal visual comedies, and Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's 11 caper flicks. It is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ...

Hollywood's clean little secret is that many people in the industry are not, at least by natural inclination, the utter shlockmeisters that their output would suggest. They are often cultivated, tasteful, hard-working craftsmen ...

American culture has become so globally dominant that even the lamest U.S. customs, such as our soporific presidential debates, infect countries blessed with superior traditions. For example, as part of the run-up to the May 6th General ...

Meet Jimmy Kimmel. He's nicer than caustic old Letterman, livelier than wooden Leno, cooler than still-stuttering Fallon, and a touch less goofy than Conan. Kimmel calculatingly uses his slackerish appeal to expertly get ...

Can a blackboard be beautiful? A liquor store car park? What about a sleeping bag? In Tom Ford’s hands the answer is always, “yes, darling”. When Colin Firth’s single man, Professor George Falconer, weaves his ...

An invitation to a Vanity Fair dinner is not a bad one to have, though the very thought of having to communicate with famous and fabulous people makes me twitchy. Hollywood types really only like powerful people, and few of them are ...