Review: Mirror Mirror (2012) is lifeless and drab, a poor-man's Ella Enchanted.

Mirror Mirror 2012 106 minutes rated PG by Scott Mendelson The good news is that Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror is nowhere near as obnoxi...

Life after Batman. Ten movies worth anticipating after The Dark Knight Rises.

I've opined here and there about how, to put it bluntly, there isn't much left on the immediate horizon that gives me the kind of an...

Dreamworks' Rise of the Guardians gets a generic trailer.

It's no secret that Dreamworks films often turn out to be far more complicated than their marketing campaigns might imply.  For example,...

Review: Wrath of the Titans (2012) mostly delivers the big-scale, cheesy matinee goods, in genuinely glorious 3D to boot.

Wrath of the Titans 2012 99 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Jonathan Liebesman's Wrath of the Titans is arguably about as 'g...

Question of the day: Why *isn't* Twilight's Bella Swan a feminist creation?

In a classical sense, FEMINISM is defined as believing that women should have the same rights, freedoms, choices, privileges, and benefits a...

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part II gets a bare-minimalist teaser.

I'm sure there will be whining about how little this teaser reveals about this November's series finale of the Twilight Saga , but w...

Weekend Box Office: (03/25/12): The Hunger Games debuts with $152 million.

Besting any number of opening weekend records, The Hunger Games  (review HERE ) opened this weekend with a scorching $152.5 million.  That...

A safely sanitized celebration of state-sponsored child murder. The disturbingly crowd-pleasing immorality of The Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games: an IMAX Experience 2012 142 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Note - this is not a conventional review and there will...

Midnight Box Office (03/23/12): Hunger Games scores $19.75m at 12:01am.

First and foremost, The Hunger Games earned a robust $19.75 million at midnight screenings alone, besting a record for a non-sequel and the...

Coolest casting news of the year: Michael Wincott to join Fox Searchlight's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho as Ed Gein! Dare we hope for a comeback?

Variety broke the story, but since they have a pay-wall, I'll link to The Playlist .  I'm not one to comment on every bit of castin...

Review: ATM (2012) is a lean genre exercise that does its business and sprints.

ATM 2012 90 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson ATM isn't high art and it's not even great trash.  But it has a clever set-up, somew...

A whole bunch (9) o' character posters for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows...

I think Empire got these posters first, but thank you to Bohemea for making all nine into one easily-pasted image (Blogger is terrible wit...

Review: Goon (2012) earns our respect by respecting itself.

Goon 2012 92 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson On the surface, Goon is an assembly-line underdog sports movie.  And yes the film hits a ha...

R.I.P., John Carter. What its failure means and why it matters...

With ten days down and $53 million in the domestic kitty and $179 million worldwide, it's pretty much time to call 'time of death...

Snow White and the Huntsman gets a second (and very expensive) trailer.

This is certainly an improvement over the first teaser, if only in that it actually highlights Kristen Stewart's Snow White over the Hun...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets a second silly trailer.

I never got around to posting the first teaser because I couldn't bring myself to care, so I'm posting both here.  Yes, I've hea...

Weekend Box Office (03/18/12) 21 Jump Street tops, John Carter crashes, Case de Mi Padre scores in limited release.

There isn't anything too surprising about a well-marketed and well-reviewed mainstream comedy opening well on its debut weekend , especi...