Review: Carnage (2011) is amusing, but predictable and uninspired.

Carnage 2011 80 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson There is nothing terribly wrong with Carnage , Roman Polanski's adaption of the play ...

Just in time for Halloween: 11 of the better (best?) horror sequels in recent history.

I've tried to do some kind of list every Halloween but stumbled into a bit of writer's block this year.  When you've already wri...

Weekend Box Office (05/08/11): Thor grosses $65.7m, Fast Five crashes, and other debuts perform well.

It's a $65.7 million weekend for Thor ( review ), giving the Marvel adventure pic a solid 2.6x weekend multiplier. It's kinda sca...

Review: The Beaver

The Beaver 2011 90 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson The Beaver is a film hamstrung by an inability to settle on just which story to t...

Artistic Comeback? He never left. A look at Matthew McConaughey's best films, post-stardom.

Much of the babbling over this weekends The Lincoln Lawyer has been about the idea that the well-reviewed legal thriller represents some ki...

Jodie Foster: "She did not live to earn approval stickers."

Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson's The Beaver gets a trailer.

Oddly enough, I had been paying so little attention to the specific details of this picture that I didn't even realize that Jodie Foster...