Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges, Hollywood's first great writer-director, was an inspired ringmaster of the American circus. Watching The Palm Beach Story or The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, you get the idea that everyone carries on his or her shoulders a midway filled...

Baltimore movie-lovers voiced concern when the Baltimore Museum of Art canceled its free monthly film series. For two years, Eric Hatch, the series' programmer, had put together a lively and original slate that typically attracted 150 to 200 people,...

(B-) Kevin Costner can do certain kinds of American confusion better than anyone else. He's nonpareil at playing the mental fog that isn't quite a hangover, or the comfort a modest man can take in a homey, familiar mess. As Bud Johnson, the single father...

It all started 10 years ago when middle school student Helen Camarillo walked up to music executive Tom Sturges at a Christmas party for youths and adults interested in mentoring. She told him that she planned to be president of the United States one day....

Job insecurity, high gas prices, intimations of scarcity in the American land of plenty. So it went in 1976 when then young chanteuse Bette Midler released her third album, cheekily titled "Songs for the New Depression." In place of her trademark Andrews...

CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT by LISA CREGAN NANETTE LEPORE's 10 favorite things Nanette Lepore, a fashion designer best known for beguiling boho-chic party frocks, did not disappoint the well-dressed crowd that gathered in Bucktown to celebrate the opening of...

The fetching comedy "Priceless" ("Hors de Prix") weighs about as much as its star, Audrey Tautou, but like Tautou's pleasingly craven heroine it knows exactly what it's doing. Tautou plays a gold digger working her way through a series of sugar daddies in...

Tragically, "Leatherheads" is just OK, though the film may well find an audience among those eager for a little diversion, what with the nostalgia factor and the George Clooney factor. Clooney, who directs and stars, has what it takes to pull off the kind...

La amistad de más de 20 años que une a George Clooney y Renée Zellweger se transforma en química y magnetismo en la pantalla gracias a "Leatherheads", la tercera película como director del galán por excelencia de Hollywood, que se estrena mañana. Tras...

BASIC CABLE "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" **** 9:15 p.m., TCM A young lady (Betty Hutton) finds herself "in trouble" and doesn't know who Daddy is. Writer/director Preston Sturges does a beautiful job of playing it for laughs in this 1944 comedy. The...

Marty McFly and Curly McLain now have a place in the Library of Congress. Along with 23 other films, "Back to the Future" and "Oklahoma!" were made part of the library's National Film Registry this week. The Library of Congress selects 25 "culturally,...

REQUIEM (unrated). This review isn't the first -- and it likely won't be the last -- to describe Hans-Christian Schmid's gritty, disturbing "Requiem" as a German version of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" filmed in the raw style of the Danish "Dogma" school....