For many long decades, people have scanned the horizons and wondered if humans were alone in the universe or if there were other creatures just waiting to communicate with us. Yet, fear always sets in and our imaginations turn to galactic invasions and ...


The poster for The Double - a movie that is yet another eolith in the burgeoning rebound of the cinematic espionage thriller - displays Richard Gere’s character prominently alongside the film’s title graphic intimating, not so subtly, that he ...
Writer/Director Wes Anderson is sort of a modern-day filmmaking hero of mine. From the opening few minutes of Bottle Rocket, I felt I had a socially awkward brother out there; another who grew up on Woody Allen films and knew too much about The Kinks for ...
Holy hayseeds and chintzy choke-weed, boys and girls! If A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas isn’t the merriest surprise of unholy raunch and salacious retribution then I don’t know what is. In a surprise twist of events, the film to enjoy more this weekend is a hellish ...
Riding the crest of an economically dissatisfied wave of thought that shows no sign of breaking, Tower Heist spins its timely yarn about some middle class broken down luxury apartment workers who decide to strike a big one against a Bernie Madoff-type character ...
Bringing a welcome change to the hill-meets-billy horror formula, writer/director Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil is a hilarious spoof of backwoods terror. After waiting some 40-plus years, we have a movie that celebrates the southerner as the unsung hero without ...
Tackling the territory of camp and schlock films from the 1950s with even more camp and schlock requires a bit of skill as those films, while insanely entertaining, were usually never meant to be the stuff of self-referential spoof. Writers/directors Adam Rifkin ...
Regardless of what the film’s title may suggest, Ned (Paul Rudd) isn’t really an idiot. It’s just that his brutal honesty is perceived as stupidity. And that’s where screenwriters David Schisgall and Evgenia Peretz find their hook in Our Idiot Brother, a ...
Pig-headed bastards will dismiss Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary – his first film in nineteen years - as wildly indulgent; a calliope of sounds and sights in a Puerto Rican trip that is ultimately not worth taking. It will be as if they forgot all about his popular gin-soaked romp that was ...
Snaking its way through 30 Minutes or Less, the sophomore big screen effort from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, is a foreboding sense of dread and darkness that permeates the humor like a stabbing reality check ...
Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, a classic tale of heroism, love, and friendship, gets yet another unnecessary big screen treatment. This time by Paul W. S. Anderson, known more for his Mortal Kombat, Soldier, and Death Race debacles ...
Sporting the same rebellious spirit as the 1984 original, but with a rejuvenated vision, Footloose revisits the small southern town where loud music and dancing are banned to protect the innocent. This time though with Craig Brewer at the helm ...

