“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...