Prepare for the End (Credits)
The artistic decline of Nicolas Cage isn't news any more, so how about the artistic decline of Alex Proyas? The Egyptian-born, Australian-raised director was...
Creature Feature
Your dose of cartoon escapism for this week: Monsters vs. Aliens. Between my reviews of Coraline last month and Journey to the Center of...
Popular Man Date
You might mistake the slight, raunchy, thoroughly charming I Love You, Man for one of Judd Apatow's movies, especially since it stars two actors...
Double Dare
Duplicity is the second film by Tony Gilroy, the longtime screenwriter who made a smashing directorial debut in 2007 with Michael Clayton. You...
French Lessons
The star of The Class, François Bégaudeau isn't a professional actor. He was a school teacher (and former rock musician) in France who became...
On the Line
Denton-born and -raised filmmaker and actor Laurence Maher is new to the experience of being interviewed by the press, so he thinks hard about...
We’ll Take Manhattan
Reading Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen today, it's striking how this 1985 masterpiece has penetrated to the marrow of countless movies,...
Dogs of War
The genre-busting animated documentary Waltz With Bashir was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but last week it lost to the Japanese...
Mad Money
Madea Goes to Jail is Tyler Perry's seventh film as writer or director in only four years. In that short period of time, his...
But I’m a Cheer-leader
Fired Up is a comedy about cheerleading, which immediately places it in danger of being overshadowed. The makers of this film find a creative...
