Articles by Laura Francis

Touching The Void

Kevin MacDonald

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Climbing a mountain can always be relied upon to stand in as a readymade meditation on the joys and perils of self-discovery. Touching the...

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Sometime in early 2001, Metallica and their crew holed up in a converted barracks in San Francisco's Presidio and set out towards recording...

Watermarks

Yaron Zilberman

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

The well-intentioned but ultimately sleepy documentary Watermark documents the Hakoah sports club, a large, dynamic Jewish sports organisat...

Project Runway: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

On the surface, a series about dressmaking promises to have about as much flexibility as a Vivienne Westwood corset. And yes, it borrows co...

Heart Breaking and Entry

BOOK

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2005

Writing a how-to guide on exploring forbidden places has got to be second nature when you have a handle like Ninjalicious. With Talmudic-li...

Saint Ralph

Mike McGowan

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

When God appears to Ralph Walker (Adam Butcher), the plucky 14-year-old hero of Canadian film-maker Michael McGowan's colossally sentimenta...

The Godfather II and III

Francis Ford Coppola

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

From an artistic standpoint, sequels, for the most part, rarely live up to expectations — most fail miserably, leaving their fan base embit...

House of D

David Duchovny

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

In David Duchovny's directorial debut, House of D, he plays Thomas, an American artist in Paris who dwells on the events of his 13th year....