Review by Brian Tallerico Do you cheer for the player who swings for the fences even if he hits a foul ball? What if he grounds into a double play? How about if he strikes out with the bases loaded? Pick your baseball metaphor and apply it to Hancock. No matter ...Read more

The Hound is a busy dog – flying down to Argentina to see the newly-discovered uncut version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis one day, perfecting his homemade Hellboy costume the next – so he doesn’t always have the time to write 2500-word opuses on the latest Criterion or National Lampoon DVD. ...Read more

Welcome to Part Two of MovieRetriever's Picks for the 15 Upcoming Contenders for the 2008 Best Picture Oscar! To read Part One, click HERE: ***** Movie: The Soloist    Director: Joe Wright Screenwriter: Susannah Grant Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine KeenerTentative Release Date: November 21, 2008      What's it About:  A true ...Read more

OK, 2008, it's time for a little tough love. Since we're such big film fans, the MovieRetriever staff has been trying to give 2008 the benefit of the doubt, but, now that the year is officially half over, we've finally got to say - this is one of the worst ...Read more

  Review by Brian Tallerico "I wish I'd read the book." It's rare, but, every once in a while, a character in the movie you're reviewing writes the review for you. Those six simple words are spoken by Sean (Josh Hutcherson), a PSP-loving, adult-hating 13-year-old who goes on a break-neck adventure with his ...Read more

 Review by Brian Tallerico With his Spanish-language features, The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo Del Toro proved that he has the skills to make dreams (or, more accurately, nightmares) come to life. He's not just fascinated by the things that go bump in the night, he wants to make puppets ...Read more

The Hound is a busy dog – camping out for Dark Knight IMAX tickets one night, hosting a Kurosawa retrospective the next – so he doesn’t always have the time to write 2500-word opuses on the latest Miramax or Girls Gone Wild DVD. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care. ...Read more

Now that the long, agonizing wait is over and The Dark Knight is finally being released this week, we at MovieRetriever.com find ourselves faced with a difficult situation. For months, we've been debating, arguing, and geeking out over what we wanted from Christopher Nolan's sequel to Batman Begins and, now that ...Read more

 A few weeks back, I marveled (pun intended) at the critical and commercial success of the truly mediocre The Incredible Hulk, even going as far as to suggest a settling in our expectations of the superhero genre. Had utter crap like The Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Ghost Rider dulled us ...Read more

 Like a prisoner who eventually starts to hum along to the Metallica song his captors have been pounding into his head for days, Mamma Mia! nearly broke down my defenses. There are SO many things wrong with this big-screen adaptation of the hit play that it's hard to know where ...Read more

Around the MovieRetriever offices, we've taken to referring to this week's big-screen X-Files sequel as X-Files: I Want to Believe That This Movie Will Be Good, But, Honestly, Did You See How the Series Ended? What the Hell was Chris Carter Thinking?  But can you blame us for not wanting ...Read more

 Will Ferrell and Adam McKay turned Pearl, a trash-mouthed toddler, into a superstar with a hilarious clip on their website Funny or Die. Step Brothers seems like a natural extension of that clip. You can almost picture Ferrell and McKay asking, "What's funnier than a baby who says bitch?" "Eleven-year-olds ...Read more

Just the fact that they've made another Brideshead Revisited after the universally beloved BBC mini-series is somewhat remarkable in itself. Or stupid. It depends on who you ask. At the very least, it had to be daunting to look at that epic book and the complexity of the highly acclaimed ...Read more

 Anticipation breeds expectation. Sure, the last few seasons of The X Files wrote a terrible final chapter for a once-amazing show, but the prospect of the reunion of Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Chris Carter made the fanboy in all of us, well, to quote the title, want to believe. ...Read more

Here at the MovieRetriever offices, we're usually more than willing to give a movie, any movie, the benefit of the doubt. You never know when you're going to find a diamond in the rough, when something that sounds like an insanely stupid idea - a movie based on a Disney ...Read more

It seems funny, given the current box office dominance of The Dark Knight, that, just three weeks ago, Batman publisher DC Comics was having a high-level summit with its sister company Warner Brothers to come up with a more consistent strategy for bringing DC's wide catalog of superhero properties to ...Read more