The Graduate (directed by Mike Nichols) If you're looking for a cultural touchstone for the '60s, or even one of the first great uses of pop music on a movie soundtrack, you don't need to search much further than The Graduate, Mike Nichols' dark comedy from 1967. A coming-of-age story that's spawned a Broadway adaptation and a poorly conceived movie continuation, The Graduate turns 40 this year (just like the Summer of Love) and in......

New York Asian Film Festival IFC Center and Asia Society Grady Hendrix and the Subway Cinema crew know a thing or two about Asian cinema. Actually, that's a serious understatement. Every year these film fanatics cull the international market in search of Far East movie gems, often films without U.S. distribution, to show to an eager and enthusiastic New York audience. This year the fest moves to the IFC Center in the West Village and......

The trailer for the new Hugh Jackman 19th century action-horror-thriller pastiche, Van Helsing, is up. Jackman plays monster hunter Van Helsing, tapped to destory Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster; Kate Beckinsale will be doing something also. If you're thinking "Where is that other classic horror movie staple, the Mummy?" it's actually in director Stephen Sommer's other film, The Mummy. Van Helsing looks very flash, busy, dizzying and expensively made, as well as gleefully......

Leslie Cheung, renowned Canto pop singer and actor, jumped to his death in Hong Kong. It's unclear why, but he did have a suicide letter. He starred in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow as well as Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine and Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together. Roger Ebert praised Cheung's performance in Farewell, My Concubine: "Leslie Cheung's concubine is never less than convincing, and his private life - he is essentially raised by the opera......