
The Right Man
An intelligent, consummately decent man of untainted gifts, Claudio Cappon finally (and deservedly) has his old job back — leading RAI.

Independence Day
It’s not easy when your neighbor is the U.S. ambassador. People talk. Isn’t my apartment owned by the government? Isn’t my magazine financed by the CIA?

Earth Girls are Easy
This could (should) be called "Giggling for Aliens" — a hit on Mars.

Marianne Williamson
"We're talking about a spiritual sensibility here, not religious dogma. A universal compassion has to do with consciousness..."

Corpse Envy
Death modeled as a sure thing is the most exciting pornography on the planet. Think Mussolini on the meat hook, loathed upside down in Milan.

Skammen (Shame)
"Shame" is Bergman's exceptionally bleak war fable, and it leaves no way out.

Minority Report
Spielberg gets it right — and then some — because PK Dick lets him.

Starship Troopers
A Fascist parable starring hellacious insects. Forget the bug spray.

Paddy Agnew
"Italy is a culture where what goes on in public really matters, public perception matters..."

Meltdown
Violence, for worse, is a national growing pain — just ask the Civil War, or the Apache.

Tirana gets real
Twenty-first century Tirana is retro on rocket fuel — but things are looking up.