It’s sort of fascinating, sort of depressing and sort of predictable to see how some critics and commentators are reacting to Precious...

It’s true that Richard Curtis’ Pirate Radio is set in 1966, during the period when official British radio stations did not carry rock & roll ...

There are those who love Napoleon Dynamite, and those who’d rather be serenaded by fingernails on a chalkboard ...

November 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of Disney’s The Little Mermaid...

It's hard to know sometimes whether the Coen brothers are ... well, not exactly pulling our collective leg, because it's pretty clear that they're authentically earnest with all their films ...

You could argue without fear of contradiction that Where the Wild Things Are is the most ambitious film ever conceived that was inspired by a 10-sentence-long picture book ...

About midway through John Hughes’ 1985 teen-angst classic The Breakfast Club, the five principal characters sit down for their afternoon nosh—Molly Ringwald with her neatly arranged sushi, Ally Sheedy and her Pixie Stix/smashed Cap’n Crunch sandwich, etc.

Filmmakers Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein spent a year recording a mission of liberal advocacy—so it’s all the more satisfying to find that No Impact Man isn’t just another liberal-advocacy documentary ...

To the extent that it's possible for any screenwriter to have carved out a niche for himself after only two theatrically released features, Robert Siegel may have done so.

Ah, I finally figured out why I’d had it in my head—after seeing trailers and TV ads—that The Informant! was a Coen Brothers movie ...