In this most vitriolic of political seasons, it makes sense that a studio would release a film that tries to bring peace to this increasingly divided country. Who better to unite us all than the everyman character that Kevin Costner has worn over the years like a comfortable pair of ...Read more

 A pair of awkward couples head to a cabin in the middle of nowhere after attending an independent film festival. The indie feature "We Are Naked" has inspired the foursome to believe that they can make a great film on their own with basically the money in their pockets and ...Read more

 With a title that reads like a Mad Libs contest winner for stupid action sequels (other failed-but-equal entries might have been "Crypt of the Monkey King" or "Pyramid of the Lizard Master"), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor takes the already-mediocre reputation set by the first two Mummy films ...Read more

What was it about the 1980s that inspires so much nostalgia nowadays? Was it the eight years of Reaganomics? The collapse of East European communism? New Coke, parachute pants, Thriller, Pac-Man, two separate-but-equal Teen Wolf movies? (Don't laugh. The first Teen Wolf is much, much worse than you remember.) Who ...Read more

 The title of the latest Apatow-verse comedy, Pineapple Express, refers to a particularly rare and potent blend of marijuana, a miracle buzz that only a few lucky people can get from the right dealer. It seems appropriate subject matter for a comedy that is itself a unique blend of action ...Read more

If you've never heard of Joss Whedon, then you obviously don't watch TV or movies, you probably don't go on the internet that much, you definitely don't read comic books or blogs, and you probably don't know any men or women between the ages of 18 to 35. Now ...Read more

The folks behind MovieRetriever.com are raising money for the Children's Leukemia Foundation of Michigan this summer and would like to ask for your help. First, a little back story to set the mood....Every year, the MovieRetriever.com Team participates in the Hollywood Nights Movie Marathon - 24 hours of ...Read more

If you're planning on seeing Vicky Cristina Barcelona, prepare yourself for a surprise. It's not a third-act twist and Javier Bardem definitely isn't a ghost or anything, but, if you've been following the movie's ad campaign, you might be very, very surprised to know that Vicky Cristina Barcelona is actually ...Read more

  I've been trying all day to think of an album equivalent to The Rocker, but I can’t come up with a record title that’s widely recognized as being only half-worthwhile. Here’s the best way to put it – think of a musician or band that you really consider talented and ...Read more

Tropic Thunder is star/co-writer/director Ben Stiller's big middle finger to the critics who have noted that his career trajectory has turned pretty lame since he started doing family-friendly, lowest-common-denominator fare like Meet the Fockers and Night at the Museum. Sure, they made Ben billions, but where was the daring performer ...Read more

  We're not exactly what you'd call "design-obsessed" here at MovieRetriever.com. We don't believe in feng shui, we don't follow fashion, and, even if you put a gun to our heads, we'd be hard pressed to distinguish a Frank Lloyd Wright house from a Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles. (Roscoe's ...Read more

  The Trans-Siberian rail line through Asia is still one of the most fascinating in the world. From Beijing to Moscow, travelers face an odd dichotomy between the inherently claustrophobic nature of traveling by train, with its small beds and cabins, and the wide-open expanse of a vast barely-populated, snow-covered landscape, ...Read more

  Do you remember when George Lucas left so much to thrive in his viewer's imaginations? Just the fact that The New Hope was the fourth installment in a reportedly nine-part series always left fans of the original Star Wars trilogy the right to dream. We could imagine what happened in ...Read more

  Woody Allen had to go to London to find his edge again with the brilliant Match Point, and, apparently, he had to go to Barcelona to find his softer side. Allen's best comedy in over a decade, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is another gem from the living legend, one of the ...Read more

  It’s undeniably hard to make a movie about faith and miracles with grace and subtlety, but couldn't director Mark Pellington and writer Albert Torres have put a little effort into it? About as subtle as a prayer revival meeting tag-teamed by Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton, the awful Henry Poole ...Read more

  Hi Jim, Hey, we read the interview you did about Avatar, your long-gestating sci-fi epic, in the Hollywood Reporter two weeks ago, and, we'll admit, we're getting very, very excited about the project. [Editor's note - For those of you who don't know, Avatar - which is slated for a ...Read more

  There’s much irony in the fact that it took a female director to finally successfully bring the sometimes misogynistic Philip Roth to the big screen. Based on a short story by the masterful writer called The Dying Animal, Isabel Coixet's Elegy is one of the more interesting dramas of the ...Read more

  If you're considering seeing Death Race this weekend, send me ten bucks and I'll personally come to your house and punch you in the face instead. It will be more dramatically rewarding. How about a more practical idea? You see that trailer above this review? Plug in your headphones. (Others ...Read more

You've got to hand it to the Children's Leukemia Foundation of Michigan. Not only do they do provide a staggering level of much-needed comfort and support to families of children and adults affected by leukemia, lymphoma, and other related blood disorders, but they also know how to throw one heck ...Read more

What is it about sci-fi movies that always make us give them the benefit of the doubt? Case in point - this week's pathetic-looking Vin Diesel vehicle, Babylon A.D., which (surprise, surprise) isn't screening for critics. (Never a good sign.) Diesel plays Toorop, a futuristic mercenary charged with protecting ...Read more