Review: The Raid: Redemption (2012) plays both sides, crafting non-stop action while creating sympathy through unrelenting fear.

The Raid: Redemption 2012 100 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson It would be easy to write off The Raid: Redemption as merely a coldly mech...

Review: Mario Van Peebles's We the Party (2012) compensates for its threadbare production values with a strongly moral viewpoint.

We the Party 2012 104 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson At its best, Mario Van Peebles's We the Party feels like the director's ov...

A masterpiece then and now: Why James Cameron's Titanic needs no defense.

This is an expanded and updated version of an essay I wrote on November 11th, 2007.   It was right at the opening credit sequence. That haun...

Review: The Hunter (2012) is a sober, quiet thriller with no clear answers.

The Hunter 2012 100 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson The Hunter is, at its core, a probing character study of a man sent on a mission to ...

Total Recall remake gets a trailer not worth remembering, wholesale or otherwise.

I've seen this movie.  Several times in fact, and it has aged surprisingly well considering the reliance on 22-year old special effects ...

3 of a Kind: Mirror Mirror and two prior fractured fairy-tales that end on a song.

Why Relativity saw fit to release this climactic dance number from  Mirror Mirror  well-ahead of its theatrical release, I cannot say.  But ...

Weekend Box Office (04/01/12): The Hunger Games powers on, Wrath of the Titans falls into the "Tomb Raider trap", Mirror Mirror underwhelms.

As expected, The Hunger Games  ( review / trailer ) again topped the box office this weekend , but its relatively strong hold suggests that...