The Man From Porlock

I'm skeptical that a movie where Jack Black's farting abilities play a pivotal role in the plot warrants much thought, but such is w...

It's hard even for a talented filmmaker to make a good movie, but I can only imagine the difficulties one might face in deliberately mak...

As critics of The Dark Knight were recently reminded, running afoul of fanboys (and, in rarer cases, fangirls) can be a terribly awkward ex...

Like Jeff Goldblum in The Right Stuff ("It's called Sputnik!" "We know."), I'm flop-sweaty with excitement to b...

By the end of Sidney Lumet's acclaimed 2007 heist-gone-wrong thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead , one brother, a drug addi...

Warning: Indirect hints of possible spoilers (that's vague, but trust me on this). In the first -- and best -- musical number of the sli...

I stopped reading comic books when I was eleven -- a sound decision, based on the arrested development of some of the commenters that greet...