2011 year-end wrap-up part I: The Underrated.

  This is the first of several year-end wrap essays detailing the year in film.  First up, here are ten films that qualify as 'underrate...

Scott Mendelson returns to podcasting.

For those interested, here is a 90-minute podcast which I participated in on Sunday night with three other film critics ( Aaron Neuwirth , A...

Thoughts on the Brett Ratner mess: When explicit slurs become part of everyday language and how to deal with their casual and out-of-context use.

I don't think Brett Ratner is a homophobe, at least not from the current evidence.  He may be an ignorant or thoughtless person, but I n...

Weekend Box Office (11/06/11): Puss in Boots tops again with record hold, while Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas slightly underperform.

 Well it looks like the answer to last weekend's big question was "B".  Dreamworks did indeed trade one boffo opening weekend ...

Review: Tower Heist (2011) is a solid, low-key comedic caper that respects its own story and doesn't sacrifice its own reality for laughs.

Tower Heist 2011 110 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Brett Ratner's Tower Heist is an unassuming caper film that works because i...

Universal to offer Tower Heist on Video On Demand 3 weeks after theatrical debut.

It could be a game-changer or could just be an irrelevant blip (it's so hard to tell sometimes).   The Los Angeles Times is reporting ...

Brett Ratner's all-star caper Tower Heist gets a trailer.

This one has been on the radar for awhile purely due to the huge cast.  The big trump card is of course Eddie Murphy returning to slightly h...