Topic: Sophie Okonedo

Australia, Spain, Japan

Wikileaks Shows MPAA Drove Aussie Copyright Suit A newly released Wikileaks cable from the U.S. State Dept. confirms what many presumed all along:...
BBC/HBO Anyone who reads this space regularly or knows my taste knows that I have a low tolerance threshold when it comes to made-for-TV movies...
The first of what volunteer organizers hope will be an annual Vancouver South African Film Festival screens two days of movies Jan.22-23. The gala...

Buzz but no sting in Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd's bestseller about a young white girl who accidentally kills her mother and leaves her harsh father to live with a kindly family of African-American women was almost certainly less ponderous than Gina Prince-Bythewood's film adaptation. In the ...

TV: A Wave of Mediocrity

Tsunami, The Aftermath (2 1/2 stars)With the recent spate of 9/11 dramatizations on TV and at the movies, it was probably only a matter of time before we got this narrative take on yet another recent global disaster, the ...