The Lens

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 14, 2008 - The award and list-making season is officially underway and the consensus among those…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 7, 2008 - Everyone's getting into the online viewing game: Criterion, the company that has…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: November 20, 2008 - In 1992, when filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and producers Ron Yerxa and Albert…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: November 14, 2008 - Just because you're still trying to figure out how to catch every film at the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: November 13, 2008 - Only a mixed review will do for Rachel Getting Married, starring Anne Hathaway as…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: October 27, 2008 - I wondered what Oliver Stone was up to in creating "W.," his problematic but…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 21, 2008 - Remember back in the early '80s when MTV emerged and the entertainment industry…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 15, 2008 - There are artists whose works are hung in galleries or shown on screens or…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 5, 2008 - The title of the film "Traitor" is loaded and unequivocal - so much so that the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: August 19, 2008 - We tend to believe, in this day of Netflix and video on demand, that we have access…