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The March of the Penguins is a great nature documentary.  The film shows, dramatically and with yet another 'voice-of-god' narration by Morgan Freeman, how Emporer Penguins manage to sustain themselves whilst caring for their new family through the blasts of an Antartic Winter. Two notes: The documentary doesn't really explain

Antony Sher's one-man Primo is a marvel to behold but not aptly titled. The text is from Primo Levi's narrative of his stay at the Auschwitz concentration camp and is, of course, harrowing and amazing. Sher is perfectly natural on stage, huddling against the set's grey walls, highlighted by changing

I attended the charity premiere (benefitting The Children's Health Fund) for Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith last night. Wow. Not too many stars in the audience, but a lot of fun. A more detailed analysis of the film, the trilogy, and the entire series will follow. For now,

Another American classic, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (which includes several quotes from "Streetcar Named Desire"), is a half-hearted affair, a quintessential bickering couple drama lacking strong enough casting in the male half to pull off the caustic back-and-forth needed to make the tour-de-foce worthwhile. Kathleen Turner is a good

A Streetcar Named Desire  - The previous Broadway incarnation of Streetcar, starring Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange was a disaster, with an outclassed Baldwin-brother squeaking at a timid and practically mute Lange. This production with John C. Reilly and Natasha Richardson is much better though doesn't reach the highest ideal

The Aviator is a glossy, standard bio-pic with good performances and scenery all around, saved by Cate Blanchet's superb incarnation as Katherine Hepburn. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's take on the Howard Hughes story puts the billionaire's obsessions over technology and film at center stage, and adds some peeks into