Brandon Peters dissects the 007 series part 09: The Man With the Golden Gun

With  Skyfall  dropping in theaters in just a few months, along with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond series, a close friend and fello...

Review: Lawless (2012) is a generic and often dull macho crime drama that works only as right-wing propaganda.

Lawless 2012 115 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson Twenty years ago, a film as formulaic and frankly contrived as John Hillcoat's Lawle...

Review: Premium Rush (2012) peaks too early and struggles to fill its feature-length running time.

Premium Rush 2012 90 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson The first thirty minutes and last twenty minutes of David Koepp's Premium Ru...

John Gosling previews the week's new film releases (08/31/2)

It's another mixed bag at the box office this weekend, with serious drama and horror tussling with a brand new family film. With last we...

2012 Summer Movie wrap-up: The Avengers and the art house save an otherwise mediocre summer movie season.

This is actually a pretty simple summer movie season to analyze and/or dissect.  In short, the expected mega-blockbusters were indeed mostly...

Brandon Peters dissects the 007 series part 08: Live and Let Die.

With  Skyfall  dropping in theaters in just a few months, along with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond series, a close friend and fello...

Weekend Box Office (08-26-12): Obama's America not withstanding, summer ends with an epic whimper.

Oh my, another film explicitly targeting an under-served niche did exceptional business almost exclusively with that niche.  In a sane indus...

Brandon Peters dissects the 007 series part 07: Diamonds Are Forever

With Skyfall dropping in theaters in just a few months, along with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond series, a close friend and fellow...