Author: Marni Soupcoff
By • Jan 22,2009

Trainspotting in Mumbai

Danny Boyle is famous for setting misery to an upbeat tempo. [Trainspotting](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/), his devastating 1996 take on heroin addiction, comes across as horrifying and yet almost exhilarating, too. In it,...

By • Jan 09,2009

A Question of Doubt

As a play, Doubt: A Parable began off-Broadway, but within four months of its opening, it had moved to the 975-seat Walter Kerr Theatre in the celebrated New York commercial...

By • Sep 18,2008

Burn After Viewing

As Osborne Cox, the Princeton-educated CIA spook at the center of Burn After Reading, the veteran John Malkovich perfectly captures the arrogance of a “company” man used to having things...

By • Aug 18,2008

Richly rewarded

Set in the muted chaos of New Delhi, where motorized auto-rickshaws, cows, luxury cars and begging urchins mingle in the hot, dusty streets without much incident (though not always without...