Articles by James Keast

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Tom Tykwer

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

In adapting Perfume, based on the best-selling ’80s novel by Patrick Suskind, director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) successfully overcomes the...

Zodiac

David Fincher

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

Zodiac concerns the serial killer of the same name, who in the late ’60s and into the ’70s terrorised Southern California and taunted polic...

Weeds: Season Two

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

Showtime’s pot dealing suburban mom returns emboldened in this second season — and so does this DVD package, flaunting its marijuana mojo a...

To Kill A Mockingbird

Robert Mulligan

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2007

It’s hard to describe, more than 40 years after its release, the impact of To Kill A Mockingbird. The 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulit...

The Boss of It All

Lars von Trier

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2007

Earnest Danish director Lars Von Trier is known for serious, analytical and often depressing work like Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the...

Breach

Billy Ray

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2007

Breach is a taut thriller of international intrigue, a true story that concerns the worst (or rather, most successful) American-born spy in...

Picket Fences: Season One

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

Television creator David E. Kelley loves legal shows (Ally McBeal, The Practice) and medical shows (Chicago Hope). In Picket Fences, one of...

Rio Bravo

Howard Hawks

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

To many, Rio Bravo is a pinnacle — the ultimate Western, a distillation of the genre’s thematic tropes, starring iconic man’s man John Wayn...