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...
Compañero
The prospect of a four-and-a-half hour film about Ernesto "Ché" Guevara is enough to make everyone quail except unreconstructed Latin American Communists and the...
Financial Times
It's easy to read too much into the similarities between a movie and the moment that it comes out. Two markedly different movies out...
Eye Popper
For Hollywood this year, 3-D filmmaking seems to be the new old wave. At least 12 more 3-D movies are slated to hit our...
KP Duty
Unlike most of the local filmmakers I profile, John Venable is someone I've known for a long time. That's because he's a film critic...
Ram Jam
Everyone's calling The Wrestler a comeback vehicle for Mickey Rourke, but he hasn't really been away. He has worked steadily in this decade, and...
Not So Minny Laughs
The whole time I was watching New in Town, I was wondering why Renée Zellweger didn't fit her role. In this throwaway comedy she...
Alien vs. Viking
First of all, Outlander has nothing to do with Highlander. It's the sort of movie that reminds you that the line can be very...
Playing the Heavy
Fat men sometimes serve as tragic figures in movies. Notorious is a tragedy, but the main character's fatness isn't what marks him for doom...
