Red Alert! Red Alert!: The following review is chock full o spoilers. Proceed at your own risk…
The opening scenes of Never Let Me Go, based on Kazuo Ishiguro chilling novel, seem...
The next time your filmmaker buddy complains to you that he doesn’t have enough money to finish his project, I suggest you refer him to Buried. Turns out, all you need is a box, Ryan Reynolds...
Over the years, we’ve seen many movies about sweet-tempered simpletons (Forrest Gump being a prime example) but very few about brilliant jerks. The Social Network is such a movie.
We learn almost...
The great joke of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps? That the insider trading and corporate raiding that Gordon Gekko was guilty of in the original film was petty thievery compared to grand...
A lot of critics are calling Emma Stone the new Lindsay Lohan and I totally get that. Like Lohan, she’s a pretty, husky-voiced redhead with serious acting chops and a great sense of comic...
Mainstream comedies tend to split down gender lines:
We have our chick-friendly rom-coms and we have our frat-friendly guy films.
Going the Distance attempts to merge the two genres. But since...
Is George Clooney lonely? Feeling disconnected? Because in his last big film, Up in the Air, he played a man who kept moving in order to avoid human connections and now, in The American, he...
You can view Lottery Ticket in one of two ways: As a cliché-ridden tale of inner city poverty, filled with warmed over jokes and borderline offensive stock characters. Or as a sweet rags-to-riches...
As our romantic comedy leading ladies hit their late 30s, the emphasis seems to have moved from finding Mr. Right to finding Mr. Fertility. To wit: Tina Fey in Baby Mama, Jennifer Lopez in The Back-...
I instinctively steered clear of Elizabeth Gilbert’s autobiographical Eat Pray Love because its blend of travel guide and self-help book didn’t appeal to me.
Nothing I’ve seen in the movie version...
