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

POSTED // Aug 12,2011 - In the “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” department, director/screenwriter Tate Taylor bought the movie rights to Kathryn Stockett’s The Help in 2008

POSTED // Aug 5,2011 - As the latest representative in a long-established genre, The Change-Up is presumed to be a critical punching bag.

POSTED // Aug 5,2011 - Meticulous fidelity is generally too much to ask of any literary adaptation. But there are adaptations that take liberties, and then there is Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

POSTED // Jul 29,2011 - Let’s be clear about one thing: In their familiar 1980s cartoon incarnation, The Smurfs were always horrible.

POSTED // Jul 29,2011 - You’ve seen it a hundred times in a hundred different movies: A car pulls up, the camera clinging to a low angle on the bottom of the car door. A foot emerges.

POSTED // Jul 22,2011 - It took a little while, but Steve Coogan appears to have figured out his perfect part. Sure, he became famous among Brits and Anglophiles for his pompous, insecure chat-show host character Alan Partri

POSTED // Jul 22,2011 - The “found footage/faux documentary” subgenre has been around long enough now that we should understand how and why it works. But Trollhunter is evidence that perhaps we don’t.

POSTED // Jul 15,2011 - In the most recent efforts of his 30-year documentary-filmmaking career, Errol Morris has found himself fascinated by—and fascinated us with—the stories of people commonly accepted to be villains