There are some films that are just too clever for their own good. Such is the case with Shutter Island, which had me entranced through its first two-thirds before imploding upon itself and vomiting in theRead Full Review

There are some people who, just by name alone, conjure up the thought: “That guy’s life would make a terrific money.” Even if you don’t know anything about them as a person, just their nameRead Full Review

Wes Anderson has never made a film I have disliked. He’s been working since 1996’s Bottle Rocket, and has made six films overall. Each film has been touched with the same flavor of detachment, smugness, andRead Full Review

There are some films that are so bleak that they’ll make your head spin. They pile on the most harrowing aspects of life, and create a world so horrible that it barely seems like reality.Read Full Review

Within the film An Education, there is a performance of spectacular grace and beauty. That performance comes from Carey Mulligan in her first starring role. It’s the kind of performance that will make her a movieRead Full Review

What do you think when you hear about a film with a title like The Men Who Stare At Goats? Certain things can be assumed: it will be well humored (probably silly), it will possess anRead Full Review

If we are to believe that the Coen Brothers are the seminal filmmakers of their generation, it is mostly because of a style that they pioneered. A style that has stayed consistent throughout their careersRead Full Review

I don’t like flying in planes. The anxiety of being up in the air so high plagues me weeks before any planned flight. I actually lose sleep in anticipation of flying, so I try toRead Full Review

There are a handful of people in history that you can just name and think “I’d like to see a movie about this person”. Amelia Earhart is one of those people. Unfortunately, Amelia seems to be aRead Full Review

I’ll admit that I cannot be fair when reviewing this film. As a child, I was read the original story in beds, libraries, and classrooms. It was a seminal story of my childhood, and manyRead Full Review

Michael Moore is mad as fuck, and he’s not going to take it anymore. He’s taken his bazookas and ICBMs, and he’s pointing them square into the face of the American economy–or more specifically, ourRead Full Review

John Keats died in 1821, when he was only slightly older than twenty-five years old. He left behind a rather vast and exceptional collection of poems, which established him as one of the greatest ofRead Full Review

Within the theater where I screened the new film Whip It, the seats were filled with numerous women and small girls decked in roller derby gear: fishnet stockings, neon-colored shirts, short shorts, etc. My knowledge ofRead Full Review

There’s something fascinating lingering under the surface of Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, The Informant!. Based on the true story of ADM Vice President Mark Whitacre and his role in the uncovering of the ADM price-fixing scandal,Read Full Review

As evidenced by the title of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds, not even the strict confinements of grammar and spelling can contain the eccentric filmmaker. Harbored lately, Basterds is Tarantino’s first full film since 2004’s Kill Bill Vol.Read Full Review

It’s hard to have a plot as preposterous as The Time Traveler’s Wife and continue to be sincere. Films have tried and failed to make romantic tear-jerkers involving robots, space, and whatnot, but the overall craziness makesRead Full Review

I will admit that I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to Japanese Anime films. Mamoru Oshii’s ultra-violent Ghost In The Shell always seemed slow and uninteresting, and even though there is a strong American followingRead Full Review

Within Marc Webb’s film, 500 Days of Summer, I experienced a mixture of emotions–but none of them were negative. Traveling through the highs and lows of two twenty-somethings treading through what may or may not beRead Full Review

There’s a rather interesting dynamic within Funny People, Judd Apatow’s latest comedy. The film delivers on its promise, and it is choc-filled with many, many funny people whether they’re playing themselves or not. But the film’sRead Full Review

War is a drug. So says a quote which scrolls before Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, The Hurt Locker. For just over two hours, the film will go on to explain that statement in grave, sometimes dangerousRead Full Review

Can I correctly comment on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince without ever reading any of the books and ignoring all except one of the films (Sorcerer’s Stone)? Probably not, but I’m going to anyway. With aRead Full Review

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an R-rated film get away with as much as the film Brüno has just gotten away with. When you consider that this same director-star tandem had earlier collaborated on the equally-abrasive Borat inRead Full Review

Duncan Jones may be the next big name in films, and I’m not just biased because his father is Ziggy Stardust. His first feature, Moon is a film which is nearly impossible to pull off, and evenRead Full Review

Within the span of Woody Allen’s long and prolific career, he has surely recycled some themes about love and life. He has some very devout opinions about the way humanity carries itself and those strongRead Full Review

Public Enemies may be one of the most revolutionary gangster films ever made. Or it may not be. I don’t think the film, or its filmmakers, care either way. Michael Mann, the best stylist behind theRead Full Review

After the enormous success of American Beauty, filmmaker Sam Mendes has been biding his time on melodramatic froth and getting Kate Winslet pregnant. Road To Perdition was a beautifully-lit father-and-son drama; Jarhead was a poor man’s Three Kings; and Revolutionary Road was, thoughRead Full Review

It has seemed that the dynamo mystique of Las Vegas has grown over the last few years. Many commercials barrage our screen with that all-too-familiar phrase: “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”. All that said,Read Full Review

They say that comedy comes from tragedy. One of the funniest films that I’ve ever seen, This Is Spinal Tap, follows this theory, as we watch a has-been 80’s hair band trying to stay alive inRead Full Review

Every once in a while, there comes a film so beautifully made and told in such a heartfelt fashion that it will lead even the most emotionally-reserved toward their catharsis. Up, the new film from theRead Full Review

Steve Lopez has been a respected staff writer for the Los Angeles Times newspaper since 2001, and the most memorable thing he ever uncovered during his work there was revealing the stunning life of NathanielRead Full Review

Greg Motolla’s Superbad was an immensely popular coming-of-age story about two unpopular teenagers trying to get laid during one crazy night. The film was penned by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and contained some of the mostRead Full Review

It looks like 3-D films have come back with a vengeance. Close to all major animated releases now are being optioned as 3-D pictures (and lets not forget IMAX, as well). Sure, these films dueRead Full Review

When you make a film as good as Michael Clayton, the expectation for your follow-up is obviously going to be very high. Tony Gilroy had been kicking around Hollywood for years as a scriptwriter, which isRead Full Review

Sunshine Cleaning has been heavily touted in its previews as “from the producers of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’”. It’s usually the phrase in the largest font on the poster. When you have a film starring Amy Adams,Read Full Review

For almost a century, the romantic comedy film has followed the same formula successfully. One person finds another person, at first they may not seem like the right match, but through a series of chanceRead Full Review

You’d think something along the lines of “Joaquin Phoenix’s final performance” would have a bit of esteem to it, but you wouldn’t know because Phoenix has gone out of his way to throw his reputationRead Full Review

Like the last few winners of the coveted Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or award, The Class is a film that is exceedingly difficult to describe plot-wise. It’s particularly interested in a French class in an inner-city ParisianRead Full Review

I believe what we have in Watchmen is the first “superhero film” that truly transcends the genre. At one time a fascinating visual experience, and at other times a mind-bending metaphor for the self-destructive gene of humanRead Full Review

I grew up within a generation that owes a great deal of its culture to the film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Without that film, there would be no emo, and goth would have never become asRead Full Review

When you think of that great crop of method actors that came out during the late 60’s and early 70’s, our minds directly go to Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, and occasionally we thinkRead Full Review

A lot of people think that wrestling is fake. The soap opera between the good guys and bad guys are very fake, and so is a majority of the choke holds and punches. But whenRead Full Review

Think of the plot of Bride Wars: two women who are best friends become mortal enemies as they both get in the way of the other’s perfect wedding. Think about how dull that sounds on paper.Read Full Review

It’s an old Hollywood theory that if you make a film dealing with the Holocaust and release it during Christmas time you’re sure to cash in on gushing critical fervor, and subsequently awards will flowRead Full Review

If anybody can play tough at the age of 78, it’s Clint Eastwood. The man has spent the last forty years spreading out squint-inducing intimidation and that has made him a living legend in moreRead Full Review

The short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, is a good story, not a great one. It’s a charming tale about a man born 5’8”, with the mind and bodyRead Full Review

There are few acting talents in American cinema as titanic as either Meryl Streep or Philip Seymour Hoffman, so to have the two going toe-to-toe within Doubt is a cinephile’s dream. The film was written and directedRead Full Review

Danny Boyle has made a career out of making films that are based purely on energy. Trainspotting perfectly captured the heroin-induced, techno-blasting lifestyles of a group of Scottish junkies. 28 Days Later was a film which used it’s grittyRead Full Review

Lo and behold the most grandiose film of the year, Australia. It’s been seven years since the last time we saw Baz Luhrman behind the camera. He’s the man behind such sensory assaults as Romeo + Juliet and MoulinRead Full Review

Frost/Nixon is not the first film to showcase the most infamous president in American history, but its probably the best. Nixon is such a mystical figure in political folklore, as well as a physical representation ofRead Full Review

The passing of Prop. 8 in California. The loss of Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars to the trivial Crash. All symbols that even in today’s seemingly advanced society, there is still severe prejudice against the homosexual community. MoreRead Full Review