One of the final living legends of movies passed away on Friday night and the world is a much sadder place. Paul Newman has died of cancer at the age of 83 at his home in Westport, Connecticut. Many, many outlets have already given ...Read more

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you should make a movie about it. The abysmal Eagle Eye attempts to take modern-day paranoia about the intrusive nature of technology and turn it into an action movie. The result is an unqualified ...Read more

Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna is a puzzler, a film that isn't just traditionally bad, but features some of the most baffling filmmaking decisions of 2008. It's a head-scratcher that makes you wonder just what sort of movie the ...Read more

Chuck Palahniuk has long been obsessed with bodily expulsions, an obsession that, arguably, the author explored to its furthest depths in one of his best novels, Choke. The fourth novel from the man who wrote Fight Club and Haunted is ...Read more

The Duchess is this season's "painted cinema." All the colors are there and it's never hard to look at, but it's ultimately as two-dimensional as a trip to the art gallery. A lovely score by Rachel Portman, nomination-worthy costume design ...Read more

I know it’s an easy play on the title, but The Lucky Ones are the folks in the theater next door to Neil Burger’s heartfelt but deeply, deeply flawed drama about three Iraq soldiers on a bizarre road trip across ...Read more

On Wednesday, the Walt Disney Company hosted an event in Hollywood to preview their upcoming film slate and possibly the two most noteworthy announcements were that indie-actor turned film-franchise-fixture Johnny Depp will be playing the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's upcoming 3D version of Alice ...Read more

Pundits were shocked this week when hackers announced that they had broken into Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account and posted images of her correspondence on the internet. While this invasion of privacy raised many eyebrows in Washington, apparently, the 2008 Presidential candidates did not ...Read more

The racial and social tension that used to be solely the product of the “urban drama” has moved to the suburbs in Lakeview Terrace, an interesting-but-flawed thriller from the once-controversial Neil LaBute. The famous playwright ...Read more

There's a phenomenon in the entertainment industry known as the "sophomore slump," a terrifying condition (much worse than the "freshman fifteen") in which a movie director finds unparalleled success with their debut effort only to stumble (and, in some cases, crash and burn) with their ...Read more