Prairie Miller

Based on the true story of Rita Atria, a rural Italian teenager who blew the whistle on dangerous mafia mobsters terrorizing her town, Marco Amenta's The Sicilian Girl (La Siciliana Ribelle) is a partly fictionalized tragic tale of extraordinary co

While geeks have monopolized movies for some time now as unlikely wimps turned he-men and superheroes, apparently old geezers would like their turn too, if Daniel Barber's senior slasher spree Harry Brown is any indication.

While the Middle East certainly has no monopoly when it comes to repression and violence against women - four women a day are murdered by men in the United States - the difference is that it's legally condoned there, or at least tolerated.

Some years ago, I wrote movie reviews for an up and coming website on the raunchy side. Why they would want feminist leaning analysis surrounded by surgically enhanced sex objects is anybody's guess, maybe for laughs or a pretense of critical balan

A French adaptation import in which more than a little may have been lost in translation, Dinner For Schmucks is dubiously distinguished likewise by bad timing.