POSTED // Nov 21,2012 - It’s going to be fascinating to watch what part of Life of Pi might wind up irritating viewers most: its decidedly Unitarian-Universalist religious leanings,

POSTED // Nov 16,2012 - “Compromise … or you risk it all,” the president of the United States warns an ideologically rigid member of his own party—and no, you haven’t just walked into a Campaign 2012 reality show.

POSTED // Nov 9,2012 - It’s hard not to walk away from the thrilling Skyfall with the impression that the James Bond franchise is feeling just a touch … defensive.

POSTED // Nov 9,2012 - Yes, there are mist-covered moors and tragic romantic entanglements. But in other fairly significant ways, this isn’t the Wuthering Heights you may think you know.

POSTED // Nov 2,2012 - In the realm of fantasy fiction, they call it “world-building”: the appeal of an entirely distinct universe, perhaps based on some future of our own world, perhaps set somewhere and sometime else entirely.

POSTED // Nov 2,2012 - Director Robert Zemeckis has spent a decade focused entirely on photo-realistic computer animation like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol. With Flight—his first live-action feature since Cast Away in 2000

POSTED // Oct 26,2012 - There is nobility in striving for a cause that seems foolhardy, toward a goal that—if reached—could bring greater joy and understanding to the world.

POSTED // Oct 19,2012 - You’ve seen those TV ads for the Paranormal Activity movies in which night-visioned moviegoers jump and scream at the latest PA flick they were lucky enough to get an advanced showing of.

POSTED // Oct 12,2012 - It seems absurd to those who still associate him with Daredevil, J-Lo and Gigli, but when our backs were all turned, Ben Affleck became a Serious Filmmaker.

POSTED // Oct 12,2012 - Maybe you don’t know the name Martin McDonagh yet. Maybe even if you saw his 2008 feature debut, In Bruges, you didn’t register the filmmaker. But please put this guy on your list of the most brilliantly inventive comic filmmakers in the world.