Karina Longworth

The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called "Baster," published in The New Yorker in 1996 and deemed fit for inclusion in the 2001 best-of anthology Wonderful Town. Last week, when asked by The New Yorker's book blog about the film — which stars Jennifer Aniston......

In 1985-86, 25-year-old CalArts animation grad Savage Steve Holland wrote and directed — and got Warner Bros. to fund and distribute — two highly idiosyncratic, John Cusack–starring, live-action/animation–hybrid comedies: Better Off Dead ... and One Crazy Summer. Though released at the peak of the Brat Pack epoch, the Holland flicks......

A film built around ticking clocks, perhaps it's fitting that Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown today plays as a time capsule — but of which time? Dialogue indicates it's set in 1995, a date with which the lax LAX airport security, baroque beeper dialing instructions and scene set in Sam Goody......

New York mag editor Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) travels alone to Cairo to meet her husband, who works for the United Nations in Gaza. When hubby gets stuck across the border indefinitely due to vague unrest, his former bodyguard Tareq (Alexander Siddig), steps in as Juliette's chaperone. Fluent in English and......

No screening series in Los Angeles this year is poised to have as direct an impact on the Oscar race as DocuWeeks. Produced by the International Documentary Association (IDA) and running July 30 through August 19 at the ArcLight, the event will feature local premieres of 17 feature films and......

Relief from a summer movie season marked by blockbuster and franchise fatigue may come in the form of an extremely unlikely sequel. Life During Wartime is the fifth feature from writer/director Todd Solondz. Building off the experimental casting conceit that fueled his last film, Palindromes, in which multiple actresses of......

Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic equivalent of the 19th Amendment: finally, a level playing field for female action stars! This is mostly bullshit, of course — Jolie's Evelyn Salt is not the first action hero......

In Sally Potter's 1993 Marxist-punk-tinged Virginia Woolf adaptation, Tilda Swinton plays the titular British lord blessed with eternal youth who, after failing in the world of men and balking at his preordained role in imperialist war, suddenly shape-shifts into a woman. With Orlando now being reissued in theaters, Swinton's current......