It’s difficult for this longtime Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams’ relaunching of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It’s difficult to dispassionately dole…
Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) is the bipolar mall cop who roams the craptacular Forest Ridge Mall like a doughy Marshal…
More than a year after its first twirl at Sundance, this Amy Adams–Emily Blunt dramedy finally shrugs its way into…
Just as we’d thought the “bromantic comedy” had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with writer-director John…
With the fanboys anxiously eying Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation, Frank Miller’s version of The Spirit sneaks into theaters almost unnoticed…
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg–a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into the aristocracy in…
Jim Carrey plays a self-absorbed Debbie Downer named Carl Allen who green-lights every bad decision in an effort to reinvent…
For a film “based on a true story”—that of Leonard and Phil Chess’ eponymous record label, featuring the likes of…
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble…
In every way, this is just another formulaic romp about two selfish slackers getting their priorities rearranged by a couple…
Ostensibly, this should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills, and, in the process of…
Ed Norton is Ray Tierney, a good cop whose scar on his left cheek suggests deeper damage caused by a…
The story of Syracuse running back Ernie Davis—the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961, two years before…
The big-screen version of inventor Robert Kearns’ legal battles with Ford and Chrysler—both of whom nicked his intermittent windshield wiper…
Peter Sollett’s 2002 Raising Victor Vargas remains among the most pointed, poignant, and joyful films about teen love ever made….
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex…
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the…
Based on Christopher Trumbo’s play about his hell-raising pop, the Spartacus screenwriter sentenced to prison for refusing to play ball…
Directed by Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker‘s more or less the Pete Best story—the tale of a poor bastard who gets…
Hamlet 2 debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it sold for $10 million to Focus Features—which makes…
