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‘Michael Clayton’: a converted soldier breaks the chain

As odd as it sounds, 'Michael Clayton' is an anti-action movie. It's a movie about the power of words, information and language. It's riveting. Tony Gilroy’s directorial debut (he’s been a screenwriter) is a direct and...

Bury My Heart actor: We are a proud, strong people

Flipping through channels on television, I came across an HBO film called “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee,” directed by Yves Simoneau. The film is based on Dee Brown’s book, published in 1971, about the systematic...

Marx and Che: films to look forward to

TORONTO — Film festivals are fast becoming one of the few places to see world cinema, including documentaries and progressive movies, as giant theater complexes rapidly sell out to Hollywood-escapist blockbusters. And the Toronto International Film...

CARTOON: Trigger finger

Bush-Cheney vs. the Armenian genocide

During World War I, the Turkish-controlled Ottoman Empire was crumbling. In the decades before the war, economic dislocation and political crisis intensified the long-standing oppression of the Armenian Christian minority. World War I (1914-1918) was a...