Why Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar snub is a moral outrage.

For a general discussion of the Oscar nominations, go HERE . In the broad scheme of things, the only Oscar snub that qualifies as an outrage...

Bad films have good ideas too. Or why Prometheus shouldn't get a token pass for its 'big ideas'.

Here's a newsflash: Most movies are inherently about 'something'.  Art films are about 'something'.  Studio prestige pic...

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...

Review: Sleeping Beauty (2011) has strong ideas in service of a lifeless film.

Sleeping Beauty 2011 105 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson It is not fair to writer/director Julia Leigh that I have such strong feelings a...

Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Last word on Sucker Punch, as the director's cut comes to Blu Ray. It's what we claim we want, but we couldn't see past the surface.

Zach Snyder made perhaps the ultimate thesis project on the wholesale objectification of women in popular culture, especially in modern geek...

Review: Hanna

Hanna 2011 110 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Joe Wright's Hanna is so detached and so mechanically cold, that the viewer has n...

Weekend Box Office (04/03/11): Hop on top with $37m, Source Code opens to $14m, Insidious open to $13m, Sucker Punch crashes (-68%) in weekend two.

As expected, Universal scored another solid animated win for the weekend , as Hop opened with $37.5 million. This is a solid win for the oc...

More thoughts in defense of Sucker Punch.

The following is a re-edited form of a couple mini-essays that I wrote elsewhere over the weekend. I figured my readers might care to read ...

Weekend Box Office (03/27/11): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 knocks out Sucker Punch.

In a somewhat surprising result, the heavily-advertised action-fantasy Sucker Punch ( teaser / trailer ) did not top the box office this w...

Review: Sucker Punch (2011)

Sucker Punch 2011 115 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson Zach Snyder's Sucker Punch is an experiment and a question: Is is possible...

MPAA thinks a young women being raped is more appropriate than a young woman initiating and enjoy sex?

There's a choice quote in this Emily Browning interview over at Nylon Magazine , which was reported by Cinemablend that merits a mentio...

Weekend Box Office (03/20/11): Adult genre fare cannibalize each other as Limitless, Lincoln Lawyer and Paul all open 'okay'.

I often complain about the lack of big-studio adult genre pictures while pointing out that the few such entries generally do well due to the...

Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch gets a full trailer.

This is obviously a longer, more plot-specific trailer. There's nothing wrong with what's here (more Scott Glenn is a plus), but th...