POSTED // Mar 18,2011 - The titular alien in Paul is, apparently, of crucial importance to our nation. He has escaped from a government facility, and men in black are in hot pursuit ...

POSTED // Mar 18,2011 - In “The Rich Boy,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote of the rich, “They are different from you and me” ...

POSTED // Mar 11,2011 - For a technology that’s intended to make animated humans look more real, it sure hasn’t been used to tell stories that are more human ...

POSTED // Mar 11,2011 - Like all the traditional folk “fairy tales” collected by the Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Riding Hood” is fundamentally about wrapping a pragmatic lesson in fanciful narrative ...

POSTED // Mar 4,2011 - If you were operating under the impression that Rango might be your typical, formulaic computer-animated feature, take a moment to consider the involvement of Johnny Depp ...

POSTED // Mar 4,2011 - In its source-material form—a short story by revered speculative-fiction author Philip K. Dick—The Adjustment Bureau is an edgy little tale of a man seeing behind the curtain of our acknowledged reality ...

POSTED // Feb 25,2011 - As much as I hate to spoil the suspense for everyone who plans to watch the Academy Awards on Feb. 27, The King’s Speech is going to win Best Picture.

POSTED // Feb 25,2011 - Nicolas Cage is “badass motherfucker” John Milton, recently escaped from hell and hot on the heels of a badass satanic priest ...

POSTED // Feb 18,2011 - Stories with jerks as protagonists can be challenging for an audience, but at least you should be able to count on a certain consistency to the jerkiness ...

POSTED // Feb 18,2011 - In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s excruciatingly serious drama Biutiful, his protagonist, a Spaniard named Uxbal (Javier Bardem) ...