Movies starring Ben Shenkman

The events depicted in The Trial of the Chicago 7 occurred in 1968-69. Aaron Sorkin began working on the screenplay in 2007. But, oh how relevant the story chronicled in this movie feels today... What is it that George Santayana wrote in The L...

Pi, the letter, is a character in the Greek alphabet roughly equivalent to the English "p." Pi, the mathematical notation, is commonly used to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi, the movie, is Darren Aronofsky'...

This is the sort of movie that gives “chick flicks” a bad name. It’s a cross between inept melodrama and a bad sit-com. The “comedy” (for lack of a better word) is obvious, poorly timed, and not especially funny. The “drama” (again, f...