All the Saw movies start the same: with a person(s) desperately trying to free themselves from Jigsaw's elaborate torture-porn trap. In ...

Much like Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood wastes no time churning out fresh cinema.  Since 1971, he’s made over 30 films.  Save a few rare excep...

Every single Woody Allen movie starts the exact same way.   Classical/jazz/muzak plays over the speakers.   Jump credits appear, always in t...

Movies don’t scare me.   The blood, the shrieking music, the jumping out from behind a door; it’s all so purposefully unrelenting.   So, the...

Here’s where Jackass 3D lost me: we fade in on a miniature train set. As the train loops in and out between the small buildings of a town, ...

Nowhere Boy is an unnecessary film about a very necessary man. It’s slow, often boring, and lazy in its rock ‘n’ roll performances.  Whic...

I’ve been hearing a lot of comparisons between this over-the-top comic book action flick and The Expendables , another recent over-the-top a...

There's a perfect word to describe a movie like Secretariat : Capracorn. Frank Capra was known for making happy-go-lucky, all's we...

These kids are Waiting for "Superman" Too. Much. Information. That's how this new, highly buzzed about documentary plays o...

Lina Leandersson in Let the Right One In/ Chloe Moretz in Let Me In Two years ago, a small Swedish film redefined the vampire genre by s...

Would you watch a movie about Tom Anderson creating MySpace?  How about a flick that chronicles the founders of Google netting their first z...

In 18 years and eight films, David Fincher has made a name for himself that most non-film enthusiasts would recognize.  He’s best known for ...

Easy A is clearly trying to do for "The Scarlett Letter" what Clueless did for "Emma" and 10 Things I Hate About You di...

This week has been abnormally cold.  Ten days ago I was wearing short sleeves, now I’m in a jacket.  Remember when we had all that snow last...

What a damn fine film this is.  And a damn hard one to review, too.  Much like Catfish , saying too much is ruining the whole thing.  If you...