TV and film

The Counterfeiters

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (Sony Pictures Classics, 2007) Holocaust films often present concentration camp inmates as if they were only victims, not complex...

Stop-Loss

Directed by Kimberly Peirce (Paramount, 2008) Five years and more than 4,000 U.S. deaths after the president declared "mission accomplished," the...

The torture show

   Jack Bauer and 24 have made torture mainstream in American homes and psyches. Not long ago torture scenes were rare on TV, and both TV and the...

Reality bites back

   New show ideas are endless-and depressing -when real life is the true basis of TV. Thank you, Heidi Montag and your castmates-I mean friends-from...