Chasing Cars
OK, this one’s easy. Disney is looking for its own car-chase movie to rival The Fast & The Furious while that series is on...
Beautiful Obsession
The enthralling documentary Tim’s Vermeer made a big splash when it opened last year’s Lone Star Film Festival, and this weekend it comes to...
300 and Two
Hollywood loves to throw up sequels to successful movies, and some of them do better than others when it comes to standing on their...
There’s No Place Like Rome
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty picked up an Oscar last week for the Best Foreign Film, so its distributors are re-releasing it after it...
Jiro Dreams of Aircraft
I never took Hayao Miyazaki seriously when he claimed that The Wind Rises would be his last movie. It seems that the now-73-year-old director...
Odd One Out
Probably the best way to see Odd Thomas is the way I saw it. I went in cold, not knowing anything about the story...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, Lupita Nyong’o. You won’t go too far wrong if you pick those people to win the Academy Awards...
Blood and Waters
Late in the supernatural teen comedy Vampire Academy, one of the gossip girls at St. Vladimir’s (Sami Gayle) tries to start a fight with...
RoboCop Cleans Up
Can a movie comment on its own remake? It almost feels that way, as if the original RoboCop, with its satire of ’80s excesses...
Hit the Bricks
You’re right to be suspicious of a movie based on a set of wildly popular children’s toys, and yet The Lego Movie is far...
