Does the Twilight Saga endorse its own story?

I did not attend last night's Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part I screening.  I was invited, but since I'm married with two kids, I...

Review: Oscar hopes aside, The Descendants (2011) is one of the year's best films.

The Descendants 2011 115 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson The problem with the movies that are released this time of year is that they are...

Titanic 3D gets a somewhat obnoxious trailer.

I loved Titanic in 1997. I still think the film is an unqualified masterpiece. I can and will defend its artistic reputation any chance I g...

Pixar's Brave gets a gorgeous trailer, which tells a surprisingly conventional story.

Come what may, Pixar has specialized in relatively unimpressive trailers that earn kudos for not giving away the whole movie.  So when I tel...

Trailer: Tarsem's Snow White revamp, Mirror Mirror, looks like a terrible remake of Ella Enchanted, as Julia Roberts invokes The Cat in the Hat.

Wow... just wow.  This looks shockingly bad, a sophomoric, obnoxious, and outright painful.  The humor seems to be on the level of Happily N...

Review: Immortals (2011) shares the politics of 300, the plot of Clash of the Titans, and negates its worth as 3D spectacle by looking glorious in 2D.

Immortals 2011 110 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson While Immortals has been advertised as a knock-off of 300 , it's actually pretty ...

The Hunger Games trailer is a strong example of confident marketing, and a textbook-study on how to sell the goods without spoiling the whole movie.

This is exactly how to cut a full-length trailer.  You establish the core plot of the story, you establish the main character and why we sho...