Academy award winning director, screenwriter, and producer Barry Levinson began his show business career in the late 1960s as a comedian and found success in every Hollywood path he took, but most notably as a director of movies, including Wag the Dog, D...

It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Martin Scorsese with a best-directing Oscar on Sunday night for "The Departed."Scorsese was received with a rousing standing...

Robert Zemeckis used Beowulf (No. 1), once the scourge of high-school English classes nationwide, to lure unsuspecting children and families to the box office this weekend, promising a 3-D spectacle the likes the which they had never seen. Improbably, he ended the weekend at...

“If someone had a gun to my head and said, ‘Define yourself,’ I’d have to just start by saying, ‘I’m a New Yorker,’” said Sigourney Weaver. “Whatever that means.” The 57-year-old actress was waxing poetic about her city of birth and current residence last Friday...

SNOW CAKE Running Time 112 minutes Directed by Marc Evans Written by Angela Pell Starring Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman Sigourney Weaver is on a roll. In the footprints of her very funny turn as the network programming executive from hell in The TV Set,...

I wrote this essay on Savant Syndrome, using the movie Rainman as an example.

Reviews and analyzes the movie "Rain Man." Summarizes the plot and discusses critical reviews of the film concerning Dustin Hoffman's performance.

A plot summary and description of characters in "Rain Man," the 1988 film about an autistic savant and his self-absorbed brother.