Chris Hemsworth is Thor (photographic proof of said statement below).

Obviously this is just a single image, staged and lit for maximum dramatic effect, but it looks pretty solid to me. I couldn't care les...

Jonah Hex gets a perfectly decent trailer.

I wrote at length about this picture's troubled history and my thoughts on the comparably truncated marketing campaign elsewhere, so I ...

Guest Review - A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

Once again, I'm poaching (with permission) friend and colleague RL Shaffer's review of a movie that he has seen before myself. In ...

Inception viral game reveals new poster...

It's a pretty low-resolution image, so I'm sure a bigger, prettier version will be online in the next forty-eight hours or so. In t...

Jonah Hex gets a new poster. A case for not fixing broken films and shorter marketing campaigns.

After near complete silence and less than two months to go, Warner Bros finally is to start the official marketing campaign for Jonah Hex . ...

Bill Condon officially signed to direct Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

After months of speculation, Summit Entertainment has finally landed Oscar-nominee Bill Condon (nominated for writing Gods and Monsters and...

Piranha 3D gets a trailer.

Dimension is releasing this campy cheese-fest on August 27th, and I might see it just for the nutso cast. It's beyond wonderful to see ...

Review: The Human Centipede (2010)

The Human Centipede 2010 92 minutes not rated Available on IFC On Demand on April 28th, in theaters April 30th. by Scott Mendelson The Human...

How to Train Your Dragon retakes top spot in fifth weekend, while Back Up Plan and Losers open softly. Weekend box office review (04/25/10)

Apologies for the delay for this weekend 's box office write-up. Real life got in the way. If at first you don't succeed... After n...

Review: Harry Brown (2010)

Harry Brown 2010 103 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson Harry Brown is, on the surface, a vigilante picture in the mold of Outlaws , Deat...

M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender gets a final trailer (and why 3D might actually be a good thing this time).

Now that's more like it... After a useless teaser last July, a compelling but brief Super Bowl spot, and a confusing and flat first trai...

Twilight Saga: Eclipse gets a final trailer.

This is the trailer that apparently debuted on the Oprah Winfrey Show this afternoon. As expected, this final tease showcases a much large...

Blu Ray review: Avatar (2010)

You can find my original theatrical review of Avatar here . The bare-bones Blu Ray contains the HD version of the movie and a standard-de...

Amanda Seyfried: the official superhero counter-programming of our time.

Apparently the only weapon that rival studios have against the onslaught of major genre pictures is one Amanda Seyfried. She helped open Ma...

Angelina Jolie, Salt, and the incredibly sexist double-standard in action movies.

The cover story of this year's Entertainment Weekly summer movie preview concerns the behind the scenes scoop of the new espionage thri...

Kick-Ass duels How to Train Your Dragon in photo-finish. Death at a Funeral opens well, Avatar still around. Weekend box office review (04/18/10)

To the surprise of many who obviously had no idea how the movie business works, Kick-Ass did not in fact set the movie-going world on fire ...

Kick-Ass opens with a completely expected $7.5 million Friday.

Lesson - "It's the studio, stupid". With a $7.5 million opening day, it looks like Kick-Ass is performing exactly like a top-...

FYI - Avatar returns to IMAX 3D at AMC...

If you care, AMC is having late-night IMAX Avatar showings, if only for this weekend. Unless you need one last hurrah before the April 22nd...

Forrest for the Trees... How some critics missed the complexity of Hit Girl, and why some criticisms are rooted in accidental sexism.

I don't think Kick-Ass is a masterpiece and I don't have issues with critics who choose not to like it. But what troubles me is ho...

TV Review: Mega Piranha (2010)

Mega Piranha 2010 90 minutes not rated by Scott Mendelson Mega Piranha is everything Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus wanted to be but wasn...

When legend becomes fact, print the legend. Or, when movie gossip/rumor becomes movie news, what does movie news become?

I've complained here and there over the last month or so about my inability to actually cover real movie news as it breaks. By that, I ...