POSTED // Aug 29,2012 - Lawless is a portrait in anti-heroism, the real-life story of larger-than-life characters whose appeal comes from their refusal to play by the rules.

POSTED // Aug 24,2012 - The expression “B-movie” generally gets tossed around pejoratively, but here’s the God’s honest truth: Good B-movies like Premium Rush may be a rarer breed than virtually any other kind of movie you could name.

POSTED // Aug 17,2012 - I’m not saying the entire feature animation industry has been listening directly to me. But I’d like to say thank you. You guys are starting to get me.

POSTED // Aug 17,2012 - If there’s one thing The Expendables 2 is really good at—and there is pretty much just this one thing—it’s demonstrating that 2010’s The Expendables was a one-joke wonder

POSTED // Aug 10,2012 - People who think a lot about movies tend to put directors in tidy boxes. Call it a remnant of the auteur theory, but we don’t quite know what to do with directors who dabble about in ways that don’t fit an easily defined artistic compartment.

POSTED // Aug 10,2012 - It’s no surprise that the trailer for Ruby Sparks inspired dread in some film journalists. Here she was again, it appeared: That perky, quirky, romantic heroine dubbed by pop-culture writer Nathan Rabin “the manic pixie dream girl”

POSTED // Aug 3,2012 - There are films that belong on the “do not remake ever, under penalty of eternal mockery” list, but Total Recall? Puh-leeze. It may have been somewhat more stylish than the typical Arnold Schwarzenegger catchphrase delivery system of the late ’80s and early ’90s, but we’re still talking about satisfying Paul Verhoeven trash here, not an inviolable classic.

POSTED // Aug 3,2012 - Director Todd Solondz had his moment in the … well, we’ll call it “sunshine” with 1998’s Happiness, a spectacularly assured downer that somehow served as the missing link between John Waters and Ingmar Bergman.

POSTED // Jul 26,2012 - It started as a simple Twitter comment by movie-awards blogger Sasha Stone of AwardsDaily.com—or at least she probably thought it was simple. “Most critics see films with a poker-faced cro

POSTED // Jul 20,2012 - When it comes to movies, “buzz” is a potentially game-changing—and potentially heartbreaking—phenomenon. And Beasts of the Southern Wild has felt both sides of the equation.