First trailer for GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra...

This is the first extended look at the last real tent pole picture of summer 2009. The tone seems to be be serio-comic, as if the studio su...

The 2nd Transformers 2 trailer... wow.

Once again I am amazed at the sheer scope, size, and scale of this one. What I'm sincerely hoping for is that Transformers 2 plays li...

Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past 2009 100 minutes Rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a relatively okay movie, even whil...

Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2009 107 minutes Rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a film that has no particular reason f...

Batman's garage sale...

Batman Garage Sale with Adam West from Adam West This is awfully funny, but it'll be especially poignant for Batman: The Animated Serie...

Kicking them while they're down, rooting for news (but not artistic failure)...

"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selv...

Why I stopped watching Heroes...

Some choice blurbs from a Boston Herald review of tonight's season finale of Heroes ... "In the third-season finale of the NBC sci-...

James Cameron's Avatar... it's still only a movie.

Here is an interesting and relatively spoiler-free look at Jame Cameron's Avatar . I've avoided most articles on this one, althoug...

Is Obssessed sexist and racist? Once again, a genre film targeting minorities is deemed offensive for said minority group...

I was reluctant to get into this because I haven't seen Obsessed (which, as I correctly predicted , is going to do nearly $30 million ...

H2 (Rob Zombie's Halloween 2) trailer...

I more or less loathed the first Rob Zombie Halloween picture, and while this one doesn't seem much better, the trailer certainly fee...

Obsessed = Tyler Perry's Fatal Attraction?

For the record, the title joke comes from a friend of a friend named Brian Lynch (credit where credit is due). The reason I bring it up is...

I was right? Wolverine final print confirmed as identical to workprint?

As some of you know (especially people who follow me on Twitter and Facebook ), a bit I had written on Tuesday inspired a bit of controvers...

James Marsden cast as the lead in Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs remake

Rod Lurie announced last night, along with The Hollywood Reporter , that the lead actor in his upcoming Straw Dogs remake would be none oth...

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince posters- Mostly grand, but why is Draco's nose so um... altered?

These are four pretty terrific posters for the upcoming Harry Potter picture. No one does individual character posters better than Warner B...

Review: Crank: High Voltage (2009)

Crank: High Voltage 2009 96 minutes Rated R by Scott Mendelson Crank: High Voltage is a movie that spends 90 minutes seemingly punishing the...

10 Years after Columbine part 02 (004/26/01)

This second post Columbine editorial was written two years after the shootings, for my college newspaper. In it, I bitterly recounted a bra...

Warner Bros's Earth Day mitzvah - a cheap HD-DVD to Blu Ray trade in program.

Kudos to Warner Bros. for their new HD-DVD to Blu Ray trade in program. I kinda wish they had done this a year ago when I actually had a h...

Star Trek screens to rave reviews, and mourning the midnight screenings that I no longer attend.

First of all, the trades ( Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ) are raving about Star Trek . I'll hopefully get to see it within the n...

Review: Tyson (2009)

Tyson 2009 87 minutes Rated R By Scott Mendelson What do Henry Tillman, Alex Stewart, Michael Spinx, and I have in common? None of us have ...

Ten minutes shorter, bub? Final cut of X-Men Origins: Wolverine runs 107 minutes - the same running time as the bootleg cut.

Well, tickets for X-Men Origins: Wolverine are now on sale at most major theater chains (they had been on sale at the Arclight chain for aw...

10 Years after Columbine part 01 (05/06/99)

Since today marks the 10 year anniversary of the Columbine school shootings, I thought I'd republish the three editorials that I wrote i...