Andrew Ross Sorkin, the author of Too Big to Fail, visited UM last Friday.

Some Enchanted Evening, the newest production from the University of Miami theatre department, is not a Rodgers and Hammerstein show, it is a revue of the duo’s most famous works.

It’s hard to do a movie about sports without falling into all the trappings of the genre. Focusing on a compelling figure – in the case of The Damned United, a wildly egotistical, spiteful manager – makes the task a little easier.

An Education could have easily fallen into all the trappings of a typical coming-of-age story: “Girl falls for older man, girl drops out of school, girl nearly sabotages college” is almost as cliché as it gets.

One of the most stunning aspects of The Baader Meinhof Complex is that it never once lags despite running almost two and a half hours. Germany’s submission to the 2008 Academy Awards and a best foreign language film nominee, the film is absolutely thrilling from start to finish.

The thought of facing Hamlet again after being forced to read it in high school may send many students running, but nothing could be a bigger mistake.

Where the Wild Things Are should be untouchable. One cannot improve perfection, and that is precisely why Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book has thrived since its publication in 1963. Spike Jonze’s film – a long-gestating live-action adaptation – looks beautiful yet sucks the joy out of Sendak’s story.

Mansion Only one club can lay claim to being People magazine’s designated “Miami’s Hottest Club,” and Mansion seems to have more than earned this title. Some of the most glamorous performances and ...

Michael Moore may just be the most polarizing figure in film today.

The most glaring problem with Fame is not that it is an unnecessary remake of a far-superior movie. It is not that it removed the heart and soul of the original 1980 film – the music that made it so eternal – and replaced it with an ill-conceived, updated hip-hop sound. The issue at hand, to be honest, is that it is dull.