Chris Packham

  You've Been Trumped, directed by Anthony Baxter, is a document of a humble American businessman who, through some perspicacity and Abe Lincoln–style bootstraps-hoisting, wins the land and homes of a bunch of primitive, chattering Scottish natives who obviously don't use them to God's and Ayn Rand's intended purpose: for......

A working actor with credits across three decades of television and film, including the shitty, doomed DEA boyfriend of Mary-Louise Parker on Weeds, Al Pacino's doomed partner in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia, and a recurring role on NBC's doomed The Firm, Martin Donovan has attained a respectable degree of "oh, that......

The Amazing Spider-Man, an inexcusably good reboot-thing from director Marc Webb, celebrates the heartwarming arachno-genetic bar mitzvah in which a boy becomes a spider, and a spider becomes a man, a rite of passage last observed in Sam Raimi’s uneven but often pretty great trilogy in the aughts. There’s definitely......

In Woody Allen's new film, To Rome With Love, people — like, really young people — still talk, improbably, about "neuroses." Horny, middle-aged businessmen actually stand around the water cooler and ogle the hot secretary, as in the Playboy cartoons of the ancients. In the Allen Legendarium, Freudian psychiatrists never......