This Ron Howard hit, written by fellow family men Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, is an original comedy about contemporary life and the eternal responsibilities of raising children. Steve Martin has never been better than as a dedicated husband and father trying (and inevitably failing, as do most of us) to balance the demands of […]

13 Conversations About One Thing  is a smartly written and wonderfully acted movie about happiness and fate. It takes four characters and blends their stories into a delicate but potent mix.  The movie starts with a scene whose significance will be understood at a much later stage. John Turturro, playing a physics college professor is […]

Although its tale of marital crisis, A Walk on the Moon is a story that gently involves. The characters are authentic, and, best of all, Diane Lane is given a chance to show why she’s one of the most genuine and underrated actresses of her generation. Here she plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a devoted housewife on […]

Paikea Apirana (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is a young girl who wants to inherit what only a young make could: the right to be a whale rider, one who rides on top of a whale from Hawaiki. Her grandfather (Rawiri Paratene ) loves her, carrying her to school every day on his bicycle, but he also blames […]