Astro Bore
There's a part in the 2004 Disney/Pixar hit The Incredibles when super-human boy-speedster Dash catches himself accidentally running on water. As any 10-year-old would,...
To the Max
What you'll probably notice about writer-director Spike Jonze's long-anticipated Where the Wild Things Are is that a lot is missing: cheap pop-culture references, self-conscious...
Ballin’ Buddies
The first time you see NBA star LeBron James in More Than a Game, he's a grinning, gawky pre-teen, which is sort of endearing....
Warr at Home
Clive Owen seems to be out to prove that he can be more than just Mr. Rugged British Action Star. He lightened up successfully...
Cheapers Creepers
Writer-director Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity has been labeled "the next Blair Witch Project" - meaning, essentially, horror's new runaway phenomenon - and judging from...
Nickel and Dimed
George W. Bush is out of office. Healthcare reform is on track to be enacted. So what do you do if you're Michael Moore?...
Night of the Laughing Dead
Remember two weeks ago when I said Jennifer's Body was the funniest horror movie since Shaun of the Dead? I was too quick on...
Bride of Quietness
I saw Bright Star a month ago and was bored by it, but the rapturous reviews Jane Campion's biographical drama has been receiving in...
That Hamilton Woman
Older viewers will remember George Hamilton as a maximally tanned, minimally talented Hollywood actor whose fame in the 1970s and '80s was completely out...
You Lie!
It sounds like a dry business story. In the early 1990s, Mark Whitacre, a division president at agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, told the...