POSTED // Sep 16,2011 - You’ll forgive a little anxiety going into the new adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock, from writer/director Rowan Joffe.

POSTED // Sep 9,2011 - With mixed martial arts gaining popularity as a more violent alternative to boxing, it was only a matter of time before the sport got the big-screen treatment.

POSTED // Sep 8,2011 - Comfort food of a very peculiar sort, the all-star disaster-movie cycle of the 1970s derived no small amount of guiltless fun from an ironclad formula

POSTED // Sep 2,2011 - The hairy, luminescent-fanged extraterrestrials that wreak havoc in Attack the Block are exotic and frightening, to be sure.

POSTED // Sep 2,2011 - It’s time again for potentially prestigious projects based on books. Here are some of the lesser-known literary works coming to your multiplex before year’s end.

POSTED // Aug 26,2011 - We all bring certain baggage to movies, and here’s one of my too-big-for-carry-on pieces: I hate holy fools.

POSTED // Aug 26,2011 - Hoorah! Time to start mythologizing the reign of Saddam Hussein! The Devil’s Double has arrived! Whoa, that Uday Hussein was a psycho, huh?

POSTED // Aug 19,2011 - It’s all laughably ridiculous, of course, the entire concept behind the romantic comedy-drama One Day.

POSTED // Aug 19,2011 - A moment, please, to rant at movie theaters: Turn up the damned projection bulbs. If you want us to pay extra for 3-D—even for fun, well-used 3-D like Fright Night—you need to stop making

POSTED // Aug 12,2011 - The concept behind the Sundance 2011 entry Another Earth is that astronomers have discovered a planet that may be an exact duplicate of our Earth