Remember, 20 years or so ago, when Robert Zemeckis was interested in stories rather than playing around with cinematic technology?

Thirst tells the story of a well-intentioned Catholic priest who volunteers as a subject for an experimental vaccine against a deadly virus, miraculously survives the procedure, but comes out of it a vampire ...

John C. Reilly as a vampire? How can that not be funny? And it is funny, in a gentler, more unassuming way than you might expect from screenwriters Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland, who've individually ...

The magnetic masculine energy of Clive Owen--which has always worked so well to endear him to us even when he's playing a sleazeball or a murderer--operates in reverse in The Boys Are Back.

Movies about immigrants coming to America are a dime a dozen, so nobody’s saying Amreeka is groundbreaking. It is, however, warmhearted, pleasant and perfectly enjoyable.

When you make your living as a polemicist, it can’t be a good sign when even people who agree with you don’t like you any more. That’s what has happened with Michael Moore ...

In An Inconvenient Truth, director Davis Guggenheim managed to portray Al Gore with the charisma of a rock star. So perhaps there's symmetry to the fact that in Guggenheim's followup documentary...

For 13 years, in features including La Promesse and L’Enfant, Belgium’s Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have grappled with characters attempting to come to terms with their moral responsibilities ...

At the age of 70 (and a millionaire many times over, thanks to both his film career and his winemaking enterprise), Francis Ford Coppola can afford to do whatever he wants...

If I’ve learned anything about Mike Judge’s work over the years, it’s not to trust first impressions. Beavis and Butt-head seemed stupid until...