Articles by Carina Chocano

Given its pitch-black subject matter, you’d expect “Quid Pro Quo” to take a quick nose dive into something dank and lurid, never to emerge. Read more

When his mother dies after a long illness, Mercer White (Lou Taylor Pucci) steals a beat-up old Volvo from a carwash and takes off on the great American hipster road trip. Read more

In “Miss Conception,” Heather Graham plays Georgina, an Englishwoman who fights with her baby-hating boyfriend just before finding out she has exactly one – count it, one – ovum left and two weeks to go before the lonesome egg swan dives down her fallopian tube and into oblivion. Read more

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE to talk about the new “Sex and the City” movie without first mentioning “Sex and the City,” the HBO series; or the rabid fan devotion it enjoyed; or the equally fervent antipathy (female and male) it inspired on socio-political grounds (sort of like the late-’90s equivalent of not letting your daughter play with Barbies); or the recently much-affirmed straight-male aversion to the Read more

Near the beginning of Fatih Akin’s captivating “The Edge of Heaven,” a lonely widower (Tuncel Kurtiz) trolls Bremen, Germany’s red-light district before settling on a middle-aged prostitute called Jessie (Nursel Köse). Read more

Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Read more

WHEN POLITICS and culture satirize themselves, what is there left for satire to do? Read more

A decadent, exotic city, the brink of war, the sweep of history, a gang of scruffy urchins, the lips and eyes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers – these are the main ingredients in Roger Spottiswoode’s “The Children of Huang Shi,” a small-scale, would-be epic about an inexperienced British journalist whose accidental arrival in Japanese-occupied Nanking leads to the heroic rescue of 60 Chinese orphans. Read more

ACTOR-TURNED-DIRECtor Chris Eigeman is perhaps best known for his roles as the spiky preppy from Whit Stillman’s 1990s lockjaw trilogy (“Metropolitan,” “Barcelona” and “The Last Days of Disco”), a persona he has more or less reprised in turns on the “Gilmore Girls” and “The Treatment,” in which he costarred with Famke Janssen. Read more