POSTED // Oct 21,2011 - When we last left Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson’s dubiously qualified British secret agent … wait, what’s that? You say you don’t recall Johnny English, the 2003 feature that

POSTED // Oct 21,2011 - There are luscious possibilities in the notion of a gearpunk Three Musketeers. This movie posits a secret hiding place in Venice in which Leonardo da Vinci hid all his plans for cool crap

POSTED // Oct 14,2011 - You probably weren’t expecting a profound existential enigma in the new Footloose, co-writer/director Craig Brewer’s remake of the affectionately remembered 1984 youth-empowerment cheese

POSTED // Oct 14,2011 - It’s already clear that French filmmaker Fred Cavayé makes the kind of films Hollywood wishes it made; it only took a couple of years for his 2008 debut, Pour Elle

POSTED // Oct 7,2011 - Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling)—the precociously successful political-media consultant at the center of The Ides of March—knows how to handle his business. Sure, he might believe that the man

POSTED // Oct 7,2011 - Real Steel might look from promotional materials like it’s simple genre mayhem, but in a weird way it’s almost experimental cinema. The experiment is this: How many crowd-pleasing formulas

POSTED // Sep 30,2011 - In the opening scene of the comedy-drama 50/50, 27-year-old Adam Lerner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) jogs through early-morning downtown Seattle.

POSTED // Sep 30,2011 - In an era where movie trailers reveal every possible plot twist and academic studies suggest we actually like spoilers, it’s wonderful to get a blast of the unfamiliar like Senna

POSTED // Sep 23,2011 - Sure, you could feel like a sucker for getting misty-eyed over yet another variation on the “boy and his dog” storyline like Dolphin Tale, especially one that gets clunky in its mechanics.

POSTED // Sep 23,2011 - “Nobody re-invents this game,” a baseball announcer smugly intones late in the deliciously entertaining Moneyball—and the same sentiment could represent the general approach to baseball