In Theaters and Digital

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 groan was heard from the masses. This would never work so...

While Pixar is certainly no slouch as it releases its 14th feature film and has rubbed elbows for the last dozen or so years with the mightiest of established studios, what is truly amazing is that its latest cartoon features more heart and sentiment and its digital characters walk ...

As a child of the 70’s, the cinematic version Superman means a lot to me.  He is, in fact, my favorite and most meaningful superhero to date.   Every couple of years, I find myself defending what Bryan Singer did in Superman Returns, as well as defending Superman ...

The comedic duo of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson team up once again, only this time they turn in their R-rated Wedding Crashers shenanigans for a little teen-friendly romp through the Google campus in The Internship, a thoroughly predictable summer ...

No matter how much effort the marketing team puts into covering M. Night Shyamalan’s involvement with the Smith-family vanity project After Earth, there is simply no wiping the fading filmmaker’s fingerprints from this disaster. The Sixth Sense director has been ...

Abracadabra it isn’t. French director Louis Leterrier (The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk) goes “mental” this month with the release of his tricky Now You See Me.  Audiences are asked – at the beginning of the barely-registering film – to pay close attention ...

Responding to criticism that his second film in the Hangover franchise was nothing more than an unimaginative rehash of the first, director Todd Phillips goes totally off-script - so to speak - with his third installment that has nothing to do with drinking or its ill effects ...

In a bit of casting genius, the latest Tyler Perry production titled Peeples features a cameo appearance by the enigmatic Melvin van Peebles (get it? Peebles - Peeples), a move so bold it would take an appearance from James Caan in a remake of Star Trek II ...

“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” So articulates the charmingly demure socialite Daisy Buchanan from the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel, The Great Gatsby. As characterized by Fitzgerald, she had “the kind of voice that ...

You know Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon’s face.  You just don’t know his name.  You will, though.  Mark my words.  You will.  Threatening enough for you?  Well, it just might be.  He plays, after all, a cold-blooded killer in Ariel Vroman’s The Iceman ...