Nelson Carvajal

. Whew! That felt good to get off my chest. Now, actually that's a bit drastic. I grew up with "Toy Story" and can still enjoy watching "The Incredibles." It just seems to me in the ...

It's hard to be critical with independently produced works sometimes. As a filmmaker, I always am surprised at how critical I can be of the films I've watched. But who the hell am I to bash or praise? ...

Luis will be joined in the studio by WRTE Radio Arte's Martin Macias who's brought some stories from the Radio Arte archives and hooked us up with some of the organizers of a Chicago Climate Action rally. ...

I don't know about you but I have horrid memories from my childhood concerning my trips to the local Osco Drug to buy my mother her "Super/Heavy/Overnight" maxi pads since she couldn't go her herself because she would be dying with cramps back at home.

Filmmakers Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea do something very uncommon in their feature documentary: rather than dissect their subject--in this case world cinema Director Henri-Georges Clouzot--into ...

Aside from being voted the best film of the 1990s (that's right, it even beat "Goodfellas" and "JFK") by the great Roger Ebert, Steve James' "Hoop Dreams" is essential viewing for anyone who is serious about filmmaking. ...

Well, if "Che" and "The Girlfriend Experience" are left out of end of the year accolades from critics groups then "The Informant!" may be Soderbergh's sole awards shot (though ...

Years ago, the incomparable A.O. Scott (now of the New York Times, but back then a contributing writer for Slate.com), wrote of Scorsese's films of the prior ['89-'99] decade:

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Once the unbearably exciting first ten minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" came to a close, I literally looked up at the auditorium ceiling and then at the speakers along the walls ...