There are two trains of thought barreling toward each other when it comes to Contraband and both share the same track. One train speeds on a course that suggests actor Mark Wahlberg has outgrown this...

The “found footage” phenomenon hits an all-time low with this budget-friendly piece of horror schlock. Mixing hand-held footage with scratchy camcorder video, The Devil Inside uses the medium of the s...

Not since Sylvester Stallone in Rocky has a fighting movie had such an exceptionally profound statement to say to its own era. Warrior , directed by Gavin O’Connor ( Pride and Glory ), pits two estran...

With a “whatever they’re paying you, I’ll double it” half-baked mentality, Colombiana offers virtually no surprises in the overstuffed female-as-action-star genre that could be so much more than what...

Opening with a movie-within-a-movie sequence that promises actor Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, Hollywood action star, absolutely will not speak, The Artist , a silent film about Hollywood during t...

Love is a funny thing and, in the hands of master comedian Buster Keaton, it is celebrated as a fantastic riot of elaborate setpieces and outrageous stunts. Seven Chances, from 1925, is Keaton’s sweet...

Celebrating the 20 th anniversary of Joe Johnston’s The Rocketeer , Disney – at long last – allows the film to breathe a bit in spectacular High Definition. Let the fist pumping and high-fives begin!...

Produced by Lawrence Bender, directed by Scott Spiegel (writer of Evil Dead 2 ) and starring Sam and Ted Raimi, Intruder is exactly the type of supermarket slasher film you’d expect from those wacky m...

Tom Cruise might be returning as Ethan Hunt but director Brad Bird, responsible for helming the beloved animated films Iron Giant , Ratatouille , and The Incredibles , is the real hero of Mission Impo...

When it was first announced that Piranha , the 1978 original spoof of Jaws , which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible gr...

The sense of dread that comes bubbling from the soil of Martha Marcy May Marlene is an oily one indeed. Sticky and messy, it is also rich with promise. Within minutes, the pastoral opening of men slin...

David Gordon Green’s The Sitter is essentially an R-rated retooling of Chris Columbus’s Adventures in Babysitting from 1987. The kids are edgier, situations are shamefully more homophobic, and, openin...

Writer/Director Wes Anderson is sort of a modern-day filmmaking hero of mine. From the opening few minutes of Bottle Rocket , I felt I had a socially awkward brother out there; another who grew up on...

There are several things Steve McQueen’s Shame isn’t trying to be. Sexy is one of them. The titillating aspects of its explicit sexual content – as this is a movie about sex addiction – are icily down...

Bringing a welcome change to the hill-meets-billy horror formula, writer/director Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil is a hilarious spoof of backwoods terror. After waiting some 40-plus years, we ha...