POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There’s something of a fire sale going on at Miramax, as the Weinstein brothers exit and corporate overlord Disney wipes their slate clean before the new folks take over. And so Underclassman'a Weinstein project that has been sitting on a shelf...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Got family? It’s not such a straightforward question anymore. How could it be, for me and so many other thirtysomethings? We marry late or not at all'or we’re gay and told our marriages don’t count'and are often separated from relatives...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - You’ve got your indie movies that are self-consciously “hip” and tediously self-aware; they go to great lengths of easy oddity to avoid getting themselves labeled “mainstream,” and in the process they end up like something...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Whatever you do, don’t pop into Dark Water if you’re in a low-down lousy mood and you’re looking for The Movies to supply a pick-me-up. Because one of the things this Asian-horror remake does really well is create the blackest of black...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - All over the country, little girls with equine fixations will be blinking dreamy eyes at their daddies and pleading please please prettyplease can we see the pony movie? And oddly enough, Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story is the cinematic equivalent of...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s probably much funnier if you’re already a bit of an Anglophile, as in you drink a lot of tea and long to attend a weekend house party in the 1930s at a manor in Sussex. You imagine taking the train down from London, and someone would...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Damn you, Joss Whedon! Damn you and your honesty and integrity and unwillingness to succumb to Hollywood bull and … You have no idea what I’m talking about unless you’re in the cult of the doomed TV series Firefly. And I honestly have no...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s something close to a stroke of genius that once-wunderkind screenwriter Shane Black sought out Robert Downey Jr. to star in his directorial debut. Not because Downey is so achingly sublime an actor and so funkily charismatic a screen presence...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - CLICKnn*.5nnAdam SandlernnKate BeckinsalennDavid HasselhoffnnRated PG-13nnYou wouldn’t believe all the anonymous junk we receive every day in hand-lettered brown envelopes from people who think they’ve stumbled across an unproduced Ed Wood...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There’s nothing fair about who lives and who dies,” says manly Kurt Russell to manly Josh Lucas in Poseidon, trying to buck up the younger guy who I am shocked'shocked!'to report starts out the movie not giving a damn about anyone but himself...