In Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Joaquin Phoenix plays one of the most unique alcoholics I've ever seen in a movie. What Aaron Johnson did to pot in Oliver...
I can't wait for the Director's Cut. No, not Criterion's much ballyhooed 216-minute edit of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. I'm talking about Salim Akil's Spark...
Christopher Kenneally's Side by Side is a comprehensive and diplomatic documentary about the ongoing combat between two feisty fields of filmmaking -- the one, ...
Though it sports a somewhat intriguing one-line premise (a married couple who can't get pregnant literally bury their hopes for the child in their garden, only ...
When it came to following up Henry Selick's near-perfect stop-motion feature Coraline, Laika animation studio had a lot on its plate. Selick's 2009 film is one ...
It appears director Jay Roach learned a lot from 2010's Dinner for Schmucks. Although not a film without its moments, it never came together, thanks to a series...
I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see Meryl Streep in a role like this. As immaculately convincing as she can be when called upon to step into the shoes ...
There was bound to be fallout after Jason Bourne ran amok avenging his girlfriend's death and shutting down the government agencies that turned him into a cold-...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid appeals to me much in the same way that watching a rerun of Full House on ABC Family does. It’s become comfort food. Luckily, the three fil...
Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall is a great B-movie. Bloody, hilarious and never too subtle with its message. It packs plenty of what we love and expect from the D...
