Although True Grit is a remake of the 1969 classic starring John Wayne, make no mistake: This is not your parents' Western.
In his latest novel Italian Shoes, Henning Mankell displays the uncanny talent for seamlessly melding apparent opposites with deft, addictive storytelling.
Paranormal Activity 2, directed by Tod Williams, presents a simple formula. Step one, bore the audience to tears with banality poorly disguised as gritty realism.
The avant-garde Tokyo-ites featured in the documentary, We Don't Care About Music Anyway - shown this past weekend by OFFScreen, a contracted independent organization which screens independent and foreign films - stay true to the title, at least in terms of the conventional music one might have on an iTunes playlist.
