The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their annual awards yesterday, and once again the Oscars have shot themselves in the foot. The Academy Awards are meant to celebrate the best achievements in film, but recently they seem to honor only those end-of-year prestige pictures that most mildly admire but [...]

Danny Boyle delivers again with “Slumdog Millionaire,” his Charles Dickens impression set in modern-day India. “Slumdog” explores how a poor orphaned boy, Jamal Malik, can go from wandering the streets with his brother, living off theft, to answering trivia questions for 20 million rupees on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” In the opening of [...]

Thursday, November 13 to Sunday, November 23 You’ve always wanted to go to a film festival, but it’s far too expensive to fly to Cannes, and you’re not really feeling the whole Utah in January scene. Well, my friend, you are in luck! Thursday begins the 17th annual Saint Louis International Film Festival. SLIFF, as [...]

As students don their sweaters and stores set out their Easter decorations, fall approaches. The change in weather also brings some of the best films of the year.