Failed States
Our country's chaotic political climate has given birth to all sorts of monsters at the movie theater - look no further than the Joker's...
High 90s
"Do you ever feel like a fuck-up?" So inquires recent high-school grad Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) of his psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley).
It's...
Move On
I always found ABBA's melancholy ballads more interesting than their better-known disco-influenced hits, but I find those latter songs pleasant enough in small doses.
String...
Out of the House
Is it true? Did Talladega Nights really come out only two summers ago? It seems like ages, mainly because Will Ferrell has starred in...
Funny Games
When Heath Ledger is on screen during The Dark Knight, you can't look anywhere else.
Part of this is because the uncategorizable Australian actor died...
Monkey Wrench
The animated kids' movie out this week, Space Chimps, is being released simultaneously with a tied-in video game.
Not unusual, but it's also the latest...
Celluloid Dreams
"I ask my students about their dreams," said Greg Mansur, who teaches filmmaking at Texas Christian University. "They think it's silly at first, but...
The Descent
Cinematic inventors and pioneers were trying to make their medium three-dimensional as far back as the 1890s, but it wasn't until 1952 that Hollywood...
The Moore We See …
Movies about very rich, very unhappy families - genre classics such as Ordinary People and Sidney Lumet's version of Long Day's Journey into Night...
Steel Reserve
Another big superhero movie hits theaters this week, but a few things separate it from the rest that have come out recently.
For one, Hancock...
