“You’ve never experienced anything like it,” gushed the LA Times about Avatar, James Cameron’s motion-capture extravaganza. And if you aren’t a Cameron connoisseur or an…
The Twilight Saga: New Moon hardly needs an introduction. As the second film in the massively popular vampmance series, courtesy of author Stephanie Meyer, New…
Jonathan Rosenbaum once wrote that the lasting legacy of Star Wars, that quintessential Hollywood popcorn movie, was that it conditioned audiences to process mass death…
Directorial collaborations are notoriously uneven and almost always judged by the parts while ignoring the sum. A successful portmanteau relies on either a galvanizing theme…
Zombie movies are a dime a dozen and, at this point, most U.S. citizens have either written, starred in, or been an extra in a…
It’s with bitter irony that Mike Judge’s most mediocre offering gets the widest release. The man who made “TPS report” and “Ow! My balls!” common…
The summer movie blockbuster with half a brain, or the one that suggests its audience actually has one, is often revered like the one-eyed man…
As the newly crowned king of adult comedies (not necessarily of the raunchy, R-rated variety, although that also applies), Judd Apatow has forged a career…
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the Potter franchise, begins with the same ominous sense of darkness that pervaded the opening…
The moody and intense Public Enemies is a curious picture, and it’s going to be a great divider, creating two polarized camps of love and hate.…
Let’s get one thing straight: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn’t a film. It isn’t even entertainment. It’s a two-and-a-half-hour commercial for General…
Pixar welcomes us back into the realm of lighter fare with Up, the esteemed animation studio’s tenth film, and, at an agreeable 90 minutes, arguably…
Terminator Salvation is not not half bad. For those of you confused by the double negative, that means… it’s half bad. Which is a shame,…
If the classic science fiction films of the 1950s largely mirrored the paranoia and fear of an America in the grips of a cold war,…
The opening salvo in 2009’s summer movie season, and in the battle for our expendable income, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is both straightforward and efficient. The…
If you could live your life all over again, would you do anything differently? Is there a crucial, life-altering moment in your past that you…
There was a time when Vin Diesel was pegged as an up-and-coming actor in Hollywood. Steven Spielberg famously wrote a new character into Saving Private…
Here comes another remake of a Disney classic. In the 1970s Witch Mountain series, which included a couple of theatrical releases and some made-for-TV movies,…
After he finished reading Taken’s screenplay for the first time, Liam Neeson can’t have said to himself, “Wow! What a great script! I want to…
Rob Marshall was afforded a great opportunity when handed the reigns to the film adaptation of hit Broadway musical Nine. The play offers a moody…