Subject: Preston Sturges

• Small Pleasures

  Woody Allen's Crooks aims low and succeeds

  May 18, 2000

• Capra Corn

  The Majestic has the sap but not the magic of the master

  December 20, 2001

• Screwball Comedy

  July 21, 1994

• Antonio Times Two

  March 21, 1996

• Filial Flub

  August 28, 1997

• Disco Daze Downer

  June 4, 1998

• Fourth and Inches: Leatherheads

  George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

  April 3, 2008

• The Year In Film

  Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  December 27, 2007

• Road Outrageous

  The Coens take Homer on a Southern-fried odyssey in O Brother

  January 11, 2001

• Weird and Wonderful

  January 4, 2007

• Bad News With Al

  November 23, 2006

• Little Miss Sunshine

  "What's Wrong with America" indie comedy reveals what's wrong with indie comedies

  August 10, 2006

• Art, Music and Crap

  It's all there -- in a neat little package -- at WestFest Compressed

  October 13, 2005

• Lazarus, Reborn

  Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

  April 25, 2002

• Ambition Overload

  Tim Robbins's Cradle Will Rock only feels like it's re-creating the '30s a day at a time

  January 20, 2000

• 8½

  May 28, 2009

• Laila’s Birthday

  August 6, 2009