Benjamin Dickinson's "First Winter" could have been a long-overdue excoriation of certain latter-day urban hipsters, and how the fatuity of their forced earthiness and anti-establishment attitudes would be brutally exposed should they face actual danger and isolation from the modern world. Using the familiar shaky camerawork and penetrating close-ups that curiously characterize virtually all indie films, Dickinson follows a group of blank-

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There was some hope for “Breaking Dawn Part 2." The end of Part 1 had Bella (Kristen Stewart) getting pregnant with what might be a demon offspring while becoming something of a demon herself when Edward (Robert Pattinson) turns her into a vamp. I expected Stephanie Meyers's so far-overblown book series to finally find some urgency but this may be the worse one yet, because we now know that it was all leading to bupkis, estab-

Last night I felt as if our sixteenth president leapt [...]

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Why couldn't "The Sessions" stay on the course it sets out on? John Hawkes gives a star-making performance as real-life writer Mark O'Brien, a man who contracted polio as a child and has been held immobile by weak muscles and an inability to breathe for too long without help from an iron lung. William H. Macy does terrific work as a priest who Mark confides in about his sexual awakening. This happens to coincide with

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