Unlike Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Hans Krebs, and Joseph Goebbels who committed suicide at the end of the war in 1945, or Martin Bormann and Rudolph Hess who were captured and judged at the Nuremberg trials, German Nazi officer Otto Adolf Eichmann escaped the allies by fleeing to Austria. He lived there in secret until […]

In director/co-writer Aneesh Chaganty’s new thriller Searching, a young girl goes missing, and it’s her father, not the police, that pieces the clues together. Sixteen-year-old Margot (Michelle La) appears to be the perfect student, sharing time with friends, taking piano lessons, even performing recitals to an appreciative audience, all recorded on video and uploaded by […]

There’s a brief moment that occurs early in Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s new English drama The Bookshop that every book lover will appreciate. While seated on the floor, going through her inventory, widower Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) holds a distinctive looking dark green, leather-bound novel in her hands. She pauses, opens the book, brings it […]

If you follow musical theater, think Avenue Q. That’s the low-rent neighborhood where characters not too removed from TV’s Sesame Street now live. They grew older only to discover that life doesn’t always turn out to be as rewarding as those upbeat, positive lessons taught several blocks away on the other side of town. Puppets […]

(The following review is a special report regarding a showing of the documentary Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony. The film will be presented at the Phoenix Art Museum on Sunday, September 16 at noon, followed by a Q&A after the screening. The film has screened in almost every major American […]