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

POSTED // Jul 15,2011 - If you’ve followed the cinematic adventures of Harry Potter over the past decade, it’s hard to imagine how Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 could fail.

POSTED // Jul 8,2011 - This 2011 “Summer of the Sequel” has been a reminder that Hollywood never wants to leave money on the table.

POSTED // Jul 1,2011 - During the prologue of Transformers: Dark of the Moon—director Michael Bay’s latest feature-length rolling-around-in-piles-of-money cinemajaculation—we learn a plot-crucial piece of revisionist history.

POSTED // Jul 1,2011 - Plenty of coverage of writer/director Mike Mills’ Beginners has focused on how the filmmaker’s past influenced the story.

POSTED // Jun 24,2011 - Dear friends: I know it’s been lonely. We’ve seen the conventional wisdom grow that Pixar has had a nearly perfect 15-year run of features ...