Grand Budapest Hotel: Fighting a European Sickness
Ralph Fiennes. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures In February 1942, the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig and his wife were found dead in Brazil after committing suicide. In his native Austria, World…
Tootsie: Dressed to Kill
Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: Columbia In the late 1990s, I was studying English in college when one of our teachers organized a reading of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance…
Zombieland
In a world where zombies stagger all over the planet, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has learned how to survive on his own, but the set of rules that he lives by…