Brothers opens Friday, and if the buzz is any indication, I expect it will receive good reviews. The performances by Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Sam Shepard are, in fact, quite good. But although I expect to be in a minority...

My wife and I just returned from a 2.5-week photo safari in southern Kenya. I plan to write about the trip including recommendations for other travelers and photographers, but it’s going to be a while before I can get to it. In the meantime here’s a...

Thursday started like any other day. After a good night’s sleep and a cup of coffee I settled in to fix the latest bugs on SpokenWord.org. I say ‘latest’ but dealing with the aberrant behavior of rogue RSS feeds could easily be a full-time job, as it...

Eric Bishop, an English postman, is divorced from two wives. His son is in trouble with gangsters and the rest of his life is crumbling around him. The one bright note: he idolizes footballer Eric Cantona. Then one night while Bishop is smoking a joint...

Soundtrack for a Revolution is one of the best documentaries of the U.S. civil rights movement. Structurally, the film glides smoothly between three styles: newsreel and stills, interviews and musical performances. The manifestations of all three are...