POSTED // Jul 31,2007 - n n n BITRATE DVD 300 Blood, guts, Spartans, abs … Just how gay is this epic on a scale of 1 to 10? That would be 300. Thank you, Sarah Silverman. (WarnerBros.com) ...

POSTED // Jul 11,2007 - After having read the first four Harry Potter novels in their entirety, I never made it through J.K. Rowling’s fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There was nothing particularly wrong with the story—Rowling was in...

POSTED // Jul 6,2007 - Since the dawn of the blockbuster era 30 years ago, cynical observers of Hollywood have suggested that certain movies were made only to sell toys. Transformers, however, marks a new evolution in this ancillary-driven approach: a movie that has been made...

POSTED // Jun 29,2007 - During the opening moments of Michael Moore’s “what the hell is wrong with American health care” documentary Sicko, as the voice of the writer/director/gadfly began wafting through the theater speakers, I was finally able to come to...

POSTED // Jun 22,2007 - We fall in love with certain movies at different times, and in different ways. Maybe you’re not sure until the credits roll, and a collective impact washes over you. Or maybe there’s a single, indelible instant when you realize you’re...

POSTED // Jun 18,2007 - I suffered through Night Watch, and I thought that was enough. I knew there was a sequel'maybe two'on the way, and I figured I’d just avoid them.nnBut I couldn’t help it. Like a geek to cool crap, I was drawn back. Because, you know, Night...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I ’ve often thought of great winemakers as artists. These are people for whom the soil and grapes make up the artists’ palette, and the art itself is created first in casks and fermentation tanks, until ultimately dispensed in bottles. But...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - If you have no sense for what great cinematography contributes to a movie, don’t be too hard on yourself—the film industry has done a singularly crappy job of educating anyone. The only time of year 99 percent of moviegoers think at all about...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Hirokazu Kore-eda wants to hurt you. The Japanese director of Maborosi and After Life explores universal themes in wandering human dramas that always seem to be on the verge of ending horribly, even when his characters are couched in placid settings such...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Fanboys everywhere, rejoice: Somebody actually gives a crap what you might think about a comic book or graphic novel turned into a movie. Oh, the filmmakers always say the right things. They dutifully show up at comic-book conventions with their clip...