'Backcast' a trip through fatherhood
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When newspaper editor Lou Ureneck took his teenage son Adam on a 110-mile river journey through the Alaskan wilderness in August 2000, he had more in mind than observing wildlife and catching salmon and Arctic char.
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Parents become producers, looking to give their child a lavish star turn.
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Men who park a hot computer on their laps for hours every day may be reducing their chances of becoming fathers. A pilot study of 29 men shows that the combination of the legs-together posture required to
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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With âGone Baby Gone,â Ben Affleck has taken a satisfyingly tough look into conscience, to those dark places where some men also go astray.
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&quot;Birth,&quot; the new Nicole Kidman reincarnation drama, is such a meticulously wrought piece of hokum that it&#39;s both easy to admire and impossible to warm up to.
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Father's Day salutes the world's great dads, but it takes science to explain why some aren't so great
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Veteran filmmaker Lekh Tandon is making a grand comeback to films.
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Michael Douglas is sounding much saner  than the character he plays in his new film &quot;King of  California,&quot; but he says his turn as a manic-depressive  absentee father hits a few familiar notes from his own life.
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While âRolling Like a Stoneâ has poignant and funny moments, itâs a serious film about mortality, success and the ephemeral nature of experience and memory.
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New books on casting films, Stephen BaldwinÂs faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn and life in old Hollywood.
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A TIME critic's take on the cantankerous director of MASH and other sprawling social comedies
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Film-maker Karan Johar was so touched by the story of a dyslexic child in Aamir Khan's directorial   debut Taare Zamen Par that he now wants to be a father.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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The distinct voice of a novice screenwriter lifts this heartwarming tale of a teen pregnancy.
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This agreeable, lightweight movie turns the malaises of a suburban Chinese-American family into bittersweet farce that teeters between cheeky humor and surface pathos.