Oscar 2011: Don't blame James Franco and Anne Hathaway, blame the writers.

Last year, I wrote a post-Oscar essay that got me quoted in Time Magazine . This year I have no such profundities to offer. But let me si...

Weekend Box Office (02/27/11): Hall Pass edges out Gnomeo and Juliet while Drive Angry crashes.

Hall Pass opened with a modest $13.5 million on its debut weekend , giving the Farrelly Brothers their first chart-topper since Me, Myself,...

Hope Allison never gets into this...

If you can't get through this whole clip, I don't blame you. For what it's worth, Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles M...

Review: Drive Angry 3D (2011)

Drive Angry 3D 2011 104 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson The problem with a film like Drive Angry is that it doesn't entirely trust t...

When the MPAA spoils the movie: Rated 'Annoying' for overly descriptive ratings explanations.

While The Adjustment Bureau looks like a pretty mediocre movie on its own, there is now yet another reason it may not be worth checking out...

Bad Teacher gets a red-band trailer.

Cameron Diaz has always an obvious urge to play around in the R-rated comedy sandbox. The Sweetest Thing may not be a great movie, but it...

RIP Dwayne McDuffie... the man who saved the DC Animated Universe.

Dwayne McDuffie died this morning of complications from a surgerical procedure performed last night. He was 49 years old. He was the writ...

Explaining the allegedly slow start to 2011 box office: A fluke is not a trend.

It's the movies stupid. Stephen Zeitchick is proclaiming that a somewhat slow start to 2011 is a sign of doom to come for the box offic...

Review: Unknown (2011)

Unknown 2011 110 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Jaume Collet-Serra's Unknown is an honest-to-goodness Hitchcockian thriller, a ...

Weekend Box Office (02/21/11): Unknown leads jam-packed President's Day holiday

It was a crowded weekend at the box office for the second weekend in a row, as three major openers squared off against a surprisingly resili...

Because this never, ever gets old...

To be fair... Masters of the Universe was pretty awesome when I was seven.

I know I've been beating up on Thor for quite awhile, and one of the complaints is that it resembles a big-budget version of Masters of ...

Review: I Am Number Four (2011)

I Am Number Four 2011 110 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson I Am Number Four is a film that seems to want to be better than it is, but...

As Arnold Schwarzenegger plans his comeback, here is a brief look back at his very best films.

Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially announced that he is returning to acting, it is perhaps as good a time as any to look back at ...

Thor gets a final, more Earthbound theatrical trailer

This second Thor trailer (the third if you count the Comic-Con footage) seems like a whole different movie from the previous sells. Call t...

Burying the lead: Justin Bieber is against abortion, but he may not be 'anti-choice'.

This is the first, and hopefully last article I'll be writing about Mr. Bieber that doesn't involve his present and future film proj...

Curveball admits lies that led to Iraq war. Yet those who doubted back in 2002 are still marginalized as less credible than those who believed.

In this article in The Guardian , Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, nicknamed 'Curveball' admits that he made it all up. ...

Blu Ray review: All-Star Superman (2011)

All-Star Superman 2011 75 minutes rated PG (violence, action, sensuality, language, and brief innuendo) Available from WHV on February 22nd ...