I walked out of The House of D with a severely bruised forehead. Often when I’m watching a bad movie, I will smack my forehead in...

A couple years ago at the MTV Video Awards, Chris Rock talked about the 50 Cent phenomenon and noted that the only reason the rapper has...

Aw, hey, this is Shawn Boswell, main char’cter from “Fast’n Furious Tokyo Drift.” How y’all doin’? Well, I guess some y’all wonderin’...

Nicole Holofcener’s latest comedy-drama, “Friends With Money,” depicts a woman named Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) who lives in a constant...

“Free Zone” opens with a 10-minute single take shot of Natalie Portman crying her eyes out. It’s a compelling way to open the film, but...

“Friday Night Lights” accomplishes something special. It does not tell a story about a football team that wins the big game. It tells...

Last year, Universal Pictures released a version of Peter Pan that broke a major rule in casting: They had the nerve to cast a young,...

Not all documentaries have to tell the whole story. Not all documentaries have to be balanced. Not all documentaries have to be warts...

“A superhero movie in January? Wow!” I thought. “Fox must LOVE this movie so much that they CAN’T WAIT to get it out there! They’re...

I almost always walk into a musical with a positive attitude. I want them to be good. As a lifelong movie and music fanatic, I’m never...

I’ve had the Boss From Hell once or twice in my life. Most recently, I had a few bosses at once who could have been molded into one...

There is a group of people who believe that if you go see “The Da Vinci Code,” you will go to Hell. I think they got it backwards. I...

A few years ago, I took a class at film school called Visual Analysis. It turned out to be a three hour weekly time-killer in which we...

One thing’s for certain: You’ve never seen a movie quite like “Crank” before. Sure, the movie has been inviting comparisons to the...

I have to make this vow. I can’t take it anymore. It has to stop. So help me God, if I have to hear “I Will Survive” in any movie ever...

Let’s not pretend that Ron Howard’s “Cinderella Man” is anything more than superficial committee-based Oscar Bait disguised as The...

For too long now, the studios have been cutting the balls off the horror genre in order to make it possible for the young kids to gain...

“Closer” tells the story of four people who each get what they want in a relationship, but haven’t a clue as to how to hang onto it. ...

The Important Desert Movie has become a new genre. Around this time every year, we get a barrage of Important political thrillers meant...

I’ve never seen anything quite like the Borat movie. It stunned me. That’s not a word one would normally use to describe a comedy, but...