To dispense with the obvious, Life of Pi is a technical marvel that seamlessly captures the essential (some would think unfilmable) central story of a young man trapped on a lifeboat in the company of a large Bengal tiger. Yann...

From time to time, a movie comes out of left field and completely blows you away. For me, that movie is Silver Linings Playbook. I walked into the theatre with a completely open mind. In fact, the only knowledge I had of it was...

The film opens with a slow-motion reminder of the bodies piled as carrion in the dark final days of the American Civil War; it will be the only moment of strict battlefield action as Steven Spielberg’s intimate, swelling epic L...