During my travels around Europe, I always got a kick out of straight-to-video American movies (typically starring Van Damme or Seagal) that…

Steven Soderbergh has played around a lot with the types of films he has released into theaters. Haywire falls into the director’s…

Born to Be Wild is a terrific but all-too-short IMAX experience. At first glance, the idea of paying almost twice the cash…

What got me though is the music. It is the soul of New Orleans and the heartbeat of what helps a lot…

About 45 minutes into this Russian-set alien invasion movie I realized that I had no idea what the names of the characters…

We Bought a Zoo is an old-fashioned family film that’s just deep enough to keep the adults engaged, so long as you’re not…

When I first saw the trailer for Steven Seagal’s Half Past Dead in 2002, I shook my head in shame as I…

Should anyone feel bad for poor old Ray Harryhausen when a kid rents Jurassic Park instead of One Million Years B.C. –…

Does the Blu-ray release of War Horse match the Oscar nominations and critical acclaim it received?  “Some days are best forgotten; today ain’t one…

Does Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol return Cruise to Top Gun status, or do further damage to his once legendary reputation? For many people, a singular decision…

“In a word, superb” Extremely loud and incredibly close is a great film. It is one of the few movies that can…

Immortals is an unconvincingly terrible attempt at a worthwhile action flick. There is not one moment in the film where I feel…

Winner of 3 academy awards during 1999’s Oscars ceremony, Life is Beautiful is a wonderful, touching film that pulls at the heart…

Jean Renoir’s ‘La Grande Illusion’ is a poetic and poignant mediation on class, the nature of war and the death of the…

The Descendants is a well-made, touching, and sometimes funny look at the worst kind of death. Death is uncompromising.  When it’s your…

Many films have been labeled “ahead of its time” upon initial theatrical release but what can we say when those films eventually…