Edward Burns and (especially) Megan Fox need to fire their publicists. Friends With Kids gets a poster, with only six of the eight billed stars.

There are six top-billed actors in this film, and six of them appear on the poster.  The two missing actors are, of course, Megan Fox and Ed...

Burying the lead - Dreamworks Animation to make CGI/traditional hybrid!

The Hollywood Reporter is um... reporting that Dreamworks has lined it the three main vocal cast members for a newly-announced upcoming an...

PRESS RELEASE: The Avengers to be released in IMAX (3D)

Not much to add here, but this is hardly a surprise.  Of course, now filmgoers like me who love IMAX have to hope that the converted 3D effe...

Weekend Box Office (01/29/11): The Grey tops, while One For the Money and Man On a Ledge somewhat stumble.

In a somewhat refreshing turn of events, this weekend had three wide releases, all budgeted below $45 million and all technically geared to...

Review: Tony Kaye's Detachment (2012) paints a grim picture of public education.

Detachment 2012 100 minutes rated R Opens in limited release on March 16th by Scott Mendelson Most of the ideas in Tony Kaye's Detachmen...

Finding Nemo, Pixar's best film, gets a 3D trailer...

It's not my favorite Pixar film.  That honor goes, on a given day, to either Toy Story 2 , Toy Story 3 , or The Incredibles .  But Findi...

Review: Kill List (2012) is an experiment in genre-switch that fails to truly engage.

Kill List 2012 95 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson Ben Wheatly's Kill List suffers from the believe that it is far more clever and or...

The lesson for this year's Oscar nominations? Don't be an R-rated film!

For a list of the complete nominations, go HERE .  As always, click on the movies with links for the original theatrical review.  I write a ...

Weekend Box Office (01/22/11): Underworld: Awakenings and Red Tails score. while Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Haywire falter slightly.

 Like clockwork, the fourth entry in the ongoing Underworld franchise debuted in the third weekend of January to take the top spot at the b...

Pet Peeve of the day: Attention action filmmakers - security guards are people too!

As a whole, Contraband is a pretty unremarkable would-be thriller.  There is almost no real action, and much of the middle act is a series ...

Review: Red Tails (2012) is a low-key, mostly entertaining history lesson/B-movie.

Red Tails 2012 120 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson The strongest aspect of director Anthony Hemingway and producer George Lucas's...

The Hunger Games gets a (seemingly) final theatrical one-sheet.

This looks like the final poster and official theatrical one-sheet.  The tagline operates both in relation to the story and Lionsgate's ...

Chuck Norris is not the cause, merely an alibi. The irony of a PG-13 Expendables II.

This story broke yesterday (I first read it yesterday morning at Collider ), but since it was based on a translation of an interview that ac...

Review: Miss Bala (2012) is a jolting and relentless bit of nasty business.

Miss Bala 2012 113 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson Gerardo Naranjo's bracing and relatively uncompromising Miss Bala operates on two...

Blaming the victim: The problem with Beauty & the Beast isn't Belle but the Beast.

Note -For what it's worth, the 3D conversion left me unimpressed.  If you want to see it, do it because you want to see the picture on t...