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...

Feast your eyes on Benjamin Andrew Moore's awesome 'History of the Bat-Suit'.

This chart of Batman's various batsuits from 1939 to today is beyond impressive.  The artist's name is Benjamin Andrew Moore.   HERE...

Review: Rooney Mara shines as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's otherwise pointless and neutered The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) remake.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 2011 160 minutes rated R by Scott Mendelson The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo feels like a James Patterson no...

Ridley Scott's 'not an Alien prequel' Prometheus gets a trailer that looks an awful lot like an Alien prequel, or an Alien rip-off.

If I seem a little less excited about this project than others, it's because A) I'm not an Alien junkie (I love Aliens , like Alien...

Review: War Horse (2011) is pure, unapologetic old-school melodrama.

War Horse 2011 145 minutes rated PG-13 by Scott Mendelson It would almost be lazy to say that War Horse is 'the kind of movie they just...

The Hobbit gets a trailer. Maybe you CAN go home again after all...

The highest compliment I can pay to this footage is that it looks absolutely a part of the prior Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Unlike the Sta...

How 2001 was a film game-changer V: Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter influence a decade of blockbusters.

This is the final entry in a handful of essays that will be dealing with the various trends that were kicked off during the 2001 calendar ye...