Prairie Miller

Just about the opposite of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, though money rarely takes a nap in The Social Network either, while Oliver Stone denounces avarice and financial gluttony, the latter movie tends to revel and wallow in it.

If all the world's a stage, then resorting to just that when faced with a shoestring movie production budget may be just the cure. Immensely resourceful and inspired Chinese filmmaker Ying Liang has crafted his debut feature, Taking Father Home [Be

Horror can also come in small packages. Even a coffin, as the no frills, literally underground thriller Buried impressively confirms.

While biopics may be about the rebirth of a human subject in a movie, reinvention is another matter. And remaking human beings in one's own image is best left to the business of religion, rather than filmmakers.

The late French cinematic master Claude Chabrol crafted The Girl Cut In Two as follow-up to Comedy Of Power in more ways than one.