"Lantana" is a psychological thriller that draws together four couples whose lives become as thickly entwined as the lantana's vines...

By Clay Lowe, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
~Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"

WCBE's "It's Movie Time" critics butt heads over the year's Top 25 picks and their Academy Award Choices...

By Clay Lowe & John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

Most of the year's box office block busters may be missing from "It's Movie Time's" John DeSando and Clay Lowe's list of Golden Oldies, but then why would anyone expect these two old curmudgeons to be in tune with what's hip at local multiplexes?

Why can't I learn about the artist's creative process in these films about artists?

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"Iris" is not really about novelist/philosopher Iris Murdoch -— it is about her enduring romance with John Bayley and the degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Her words from the lecture podium are often aimed at the thematic core of the film: the need for love.

Both stories appear to represent the director’s dark feelings about writing, filmmaking, and the critics who accuse him of being superior to his characters.

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

Todd Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse" showed comic/absurd promise; his masturbation scene in "Happiness" overstepped the boundary of film taste but got everyone’s attention.

In the most blessed country in the history of civilization, is it too much to think that all Americans could have adequate health care?

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

On Valentine's Day I discovered the love story of the year so tender and tentative I was annoyed when one of the loving couples went at it rather than talk about it...

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

Gabriele Muccino's "The Last Kiss" is a rapidly paced bedroom romp where everyone is either getting laid or just getting... you've got it... screwed.

By Clay Lowe, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

For women, hope is the day she will be seen...

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

"Kandahar," is a sometimes-expressionistic drama about a disguised Afghani woman, Canadian reporter Nafas, trying to get to the city of Kandahar to stop her sister from committing suicide during the next solar eclipse.(Actress Nelofer Pazira went through a similar struggle).

"Behind Enemy Lines" or even "M*A*S*H" pale next to this Cannes winner for best screenplay...

By John DeSando, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

The small town seaport of Camden, Maine rivals Peyton Place as a setting for romance and jealousy...

By Clay Lowe, WCBE's "It's Movie Time"

How director Todd Field (TV series: "Once and Again") gets so much right in his first feature film, "In the Bedroom," but lets it slip away is only one of the mysteries to be solved in this slow-moving story about wife abuse and retaliatory murder.