There’s a lot of dread associated with sex when you’re a teenager. Your body is changing, you’re experiencing urges for the first time, there’s and cultural and peer pressure to start experimenting. Meanwhile, the threat of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases looms heavy over ...

The New Zealand-shot mockumentary comedy **“What We Do in the Shadows,”** now playing at [Liberty Hall,][1] is proof that vampires are alive and well (or undead and loving it) in the collective imagination. Thanks to “Underworld,” “True Blood” and the “Twilight” series (and ...

The mid-March blues are officially in full swing, film fans. If this post-Oscar, pre-summer netherworld of humdrum movie releases has got you down, it might be a good time to catch up on some home viewing. Nothing can cure this feeling quite like a solid, enthralling suspense thriller, so ...

Playing this week at [Liberty Hall][1] is that oh-so-rare of beasts, the art-house sequel. **“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,”** starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill Nighy, again sees a gaggle of distinguished British senior actors get their groove on at an Indian hotel. ...

Early-19th-century artist J.M.W. Turner is now regarded as an innovator, elevating landscape and maritime paintings to high art. But by the time of his death in 1851, his work had fallen out of favor for being too abstract. Director **Mike Leigh**’s biopic of Turner isn’t exactly ...

Sometimes when the camera is rolling, your true self comes out. So I'll just admit it freely: the scene in **"Birdman"** where the New York Times theater critic (**Lindsay Duncan**) tells Riggan Thomson (**Michael Keaton**) that she's going to pan his stupid play, no matter how good it is, ...