Given what an awful stiff Somerset Maugham can be, it’s remarkable how many movies have been made of his uptight tales of civil servants sweating it out in British colonies (48 for the big screen ...

For all of Zhang Yimou’s well-earned accolades, a debate simmers among many in the Chinese film elite over the proper perspective to be given the acclaimed director. Central to the so-called Fifth ...

Naomi Watts supplies the grit and soul in this adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel. A stifled London flapper in the 1920s, she marries a bacteriologist for convenience and follows her stolid ...

It takes a pretty powerful romance to transcend gender boundaries in the manner of "The Notebook" or "Love Actually," (don't lie to yourselves guys, you liked them, too). However, "The Painted Veil" ...