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 move quick enough to further ...Read more

We've had a massive response to last week's feature on Ten Truly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies, a response that's taught us two things - 1). People have a true, hardcore passion for talking about their favorite sci-fi films and 2). People effing HATE Aeon Flux. (We knew it was going ...Read more

Does anyone else remember when Nicolas Cage mattered? Does he? When he was not only an A-list actor but someone who had an unpredictable screen presence and charisma that was indefinably unique? The Cage of the 1980s and 1990s has become a caricature of his former self, appearing in by-the-numbers ...Read more

There's a lot to like about the modern film industry - the Coen Brothers winning Oscars, halfway-decent Batman movies, mercifully few Dane Cook "comedies" - however, there are certain age-old traditions that Hollywood has abandoned lately, and we're here to say enough is enough. Specifically, we're here to petition for ...Read more

Film is not necessarily a subtle medium and, as if to prove that point, there are certain movie directors who've made careers of taking subtlety, covering it in gunpowder and diesel, and igniting it with the tailpipe of a nitro-burning funny car. (Looking at you, Michael Bay.) And while we ...Read more

 One of the oldest archetypes in screenwriting is that of the "lovable loser." It's a character model that's been a major part of the medium from Charlie Chaplin to Ben Stiller, and the Coen Brothers are very familiar with that special kind of comedic hero that can’t quite get his ...Read more

 To some, Righteous Kill may have been the long-anticipated reunion of two acting titans (Al Pacino and Robert De Niro). Those same people may probably have even been looking forward to this new offering from director Jon Avnet (who, the last time I checked hadn’t really scored since Fried Green ...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 follow-up project. It happened to ...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 and director of In the Company of Men and The Shape of Things has long ...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 in Wonderland and that Depp ...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 America’s heartland. Despite a heart that’s clearly in the right ...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 by Michael O'Connor, an intriguing supporting performance by Ralph Fiennes ...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 about all those things we push out of our body ...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 people involved thought they were making, because it is very ...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 disaster, an unbelievable, unrealistic, and simply un-enjoyable barrage of noise ...Read more

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 the career of Paul Newman ...Read more