Articles by Poonam Khanna

Kandahar Mohsen Makhmalbaf

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In "The Sun Behind the Moon," Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf follows a Canadian journalist as she journeys into Afghanistan in an effor...

Secret Ballot Babek Payami

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

In "Secret Ballot," director Babek Payami explores an election system that's even more screwed up than the America's. A soldier receives or...

All About My Mother

Pedro Almodóvar

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Tennessee Williams' bitter tragedy A Streetcar Named Desire seeps through the very soul of Pedro Almodóvar's latest movie, All About My Mot...

Chicken Run

Peter Lord and Nick Park

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Chicken Run is a World War II prison movie, an army training flick and a love story - all set on a chicken farm. It's a formulaic movie wit...

Truth About Tully Hilary Birmingham

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

The Truth About Tully's slow, gradually unfolding pace carefully reflects the nature of life in its Nebraskan setting. The movie is based o...

Joe The King

Frank Whiley

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Joe (Noah Fleiss) is 14 years old. He is an under-fed, underdeveloped, scrawny thing who grabs bits of food off plates that he washes at a...

Glen Standring

Glen Standring

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

With a title such as The Irrefutable Truth About Demons, there's little chance that the movie will be good. Still, one does have hopes that...

Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

With a discerning eye and smart dialogue, The Contender wades deep in the down-and-dirty world of politics. When the American Vice Presiden...