When it came to following up Henry Selick's near-perfect stop-motion feature Coraline, Laika animation studio had a lot on its plate. Selick's 2009 film is one ...
It appears director Jay Roach learned a lot from 2010's Dinner for Schmucks. Although not a film without its moments, it never came together, thanks to a series...
I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see Meryl Streep in a role like this. As immaculately convincing as she can be when called upon to step into the shoes ...
There was bound to be fallout after Jason Bourne ran amok avenging his girlfriend's death and shutting down the government agencies that turned him into a cold-...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid appeals to me much in the same way that watching a rerun of Full House on ABC Family does. It’s become comfort food. Luckily, the three fil...
Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall is a great B-movie. Bloody, hilarious and never too subtle with its message. It packs plenty of what we love and expect from the D...
Somewhere between greasy leftover fried chicken and stale half-finished beer cans sits Killer Joe, filmmaker William Friedkin’s fresh adaptation of Tracy Letts’...
Dance movies, not unlike pornography, deliver exactly what they promise, sometimes dressed up with a “plot.” Step Up Revolution delivers both a plot (a lame lov...
I suppose you can describe The Watch (formerly Neighborhood Watch) as high concept, and perhaps high might be the state one would be in to enjoy it. Here we hav...
Chinese artist/activist/dissident Ai Weiwei—a man deeply entrenched with the social media scene so his voice can be heard around the world—acts by responding to...
