The Emperor's Club" is a rather stodgily directed pic by Michael Hoffman which extols the virtues of Greek and Roman thinking in the guise of Kevin Kline's classics teacher. Kline’s William Hundert, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Michael Hoffman’s latest film, “The Emperor’s Club,” is a combination of “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” ...

The Duke of Wellington has a lot to answer for. Ever since the man who conquered Napoleon insisted that “the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton,” there’s been no end of books -- ...

At St. Benedict’s Academy for Boys, instructor William Hundert (Kevin Kline) fills the minds of his students with Socrates and Aristotle, “men whose accomplishments surpassed their own lifetimes.” His ...

Yet another teacher agonizes: How do I reach my students? Are they worth the sacrifices? Surprisingly, this isn’t as bad as it could be. Kevin Kline, a classics teacher at an exclusive prep school in ...

Awards voters love teachers. And maybe because most teachers earn a ridiculously low salary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences figures the least it can do is reward them with Oscar noms.

Kevin Kline takes a crack at being the 2002 version of Robin Williams’ 1989 Dead Poets Society character, but his phony Mr. Prim and Proper accent floats in and out like his career in this script that ...

Even the most inspirational teachers will discover that a handful of students will get away from them, twisting their key lessons into awful perversions or discarding them altogether. For all its ...