I have to admit it’s a special day when Javier Bardem is only the second most interesting person I talk to.

On Tuesday morning, I got a transoceanic phone call from Bardem, the Spanish actor who won an Academy Award earlier…

I’m not surprised that the documentary “Gashole” is screening this week at the half-renovated Hi-Pointe instead of at a suburban multiplex or a hipster arthouse like the Tivoli. This chilling film is about alternative-fuel technologies for which people have been murdered.

“Murder”…

When the Hi-Pointe Theater closed its doors a couple months ago, cinephiles and preservationists wondered if the building would ever reopen. Fear not: Sources tell us that the venerable, single-screen theater will be showing summer blockbusters within the next month.…

Today I had a chance to talk with Werner Herzog, the adventurous German director of such films as the famously arduous “Fitzcarraldo,” the chilling documentary “Grizzly Man” and the upcoming “Encounters at the End of the World,” a wonderful documentary…

On Friday, an angry reader accused me of liberal bias for not reviewing “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” a new documentary that challenges the theory of evolution. But actually, as with the slasher film “Prom Night,” the distributor did not screen…