For those who don't quite get East Coast cool jazz or why it's special, I have two words for you: Half Nelson. The song, credited to Miles Davis, was first recorded for Savoy in 1947 by the Miles ...

Movies about unlikely buddies have inspired writer and director Ryan Fleck, whose latest film, Half Nelson, chronicles the relationship between an inner-city junior-high student and her inspiring -- ...

“Half Nelson” with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the teacher, half the budget and no distributor? The little secret of the year’s indie-film success story is that, for a long time, it looked like a ...

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Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, from a screenplay by Mr. Fleck and Anna Boden, plunges us into an inner-city junior high Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, from a screenplay by Mr. Fleck and Anna Boden, plunges us ...

This article was updated at 10:26 p.m. “Half Nelson,” ThinkFilm’s provocative portrait of a New York public-school teacher, scored big at the Independent Feature Project’s Gotham Awards on Wednesday ...

In terms of domestic dollars earned, Captain Marvel is the biggest movie of 2019 to date. As of this writing, it’s soared past the $350 million mark and topped $650 million across the globe. That’s a ...

Predictions are dangerous, but if Ryan Gosling doesn't earn an Academy Award nomination for his heartbreaking star turn in Half Nelson, I'll eat my reporter's notebook. Without salt. Why? Because I ...

In the movies, and unfortunately in life, we tend to accept the easy falsehood that someone who behaves badly in one respect must be bad in others, even if they’re totally unrelated. So, if a person ...