Film

Today, Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

Twenty years ago, traveling in Syria and Jordan with a faculty group, separated from my comrades, I wandered alone through the Palestinian refugee camp in Baga. Till then my concept of a “camp” was tents—scouts on an overnight trip, troops on bivouac—but this was a permanent

An American paratrooper leaps from a plane, descends through the hazy night sky and lands, unnoticed, directly on the backstage catwalk of a large, U.S.O.-style show. Onstage an Asian ventriloquist performs an expressionless routine before a sea of unmoved military brass with a distinctly Communist

‘You Will Be My Son’ raises morals issues that we could talk about for years.

‘The Lone Ranger’ touches on major themes in the mythology of the Wild West.

Superman is not Jesus. This, it seems, should be obvious. And yet this summer’s latest iteration of the beloved superhero takes pains to draw comparisons: In “Man of Steel” Superman, while embracing his mission as the aarth’s savior, mentions that he is 33 years old, which ju

The bleak, brilliant vision of ‘Blue Jasmine’

In the world of “Star Trek,” God remains a lodestar of human striving.

Last month saw the debut of “White House Down,” the second “bad guys somehow manage to successfully invade the White House” film of recent months (along with March’s “Olympus Has Fallen”). Racking in poor reviews and limited box office, “White House Do

We claim to want art that challenges our assumptions. Yet cutting through the build up from our education and enculturation isn’t easy. It is especially difficult when the art we hope will entertain us also seeks to inform us about well-known historical events.The new movie “Copperhead&r