POSTED // Mar 3,2010 - Is it because I’m a New Yorker myself that I am generally enthralled by tales of the NYPD?

POSTED // Feb 24,2010 - Shame on Silent Bob. I realize that times are tough and everyone’s gotta make a living, and that that’s probably why Kevin Smith agreed to direct a big-budget studio buddy action comedy ...

POSTED // Feb 17,2010 - I kinda can’t believe that everyone involved in Shutter Island thought they could get away with this. Have they not seen the 943 other thriller-in-an-asylum movies?

POSTED // Feb 10,2010 - The metallic tang of blood is all over the elegant facade of The Wolfman, a mysteriously disappointing remake of the classic 1941 Universal horror flick ...

POSTED // Feb 3,2010 - Whip It arrived on DVD on Jan. 26. What’s that? You’ve never heard of Whip It? It’s a film about women doing something other than fretting about babies...

POSTED // Jan 13,2010 - It’s a good thing first-time director Tom Ford—yes, the fashion designer—cast Colin Firth as the lead in A Single Man ...

POSTED // Dec 2,2009 - The drama we see unfolding here is not unique and isolated, but represents the stress fractures pulling apart many military families...

POSTED // Dec 2,2009 - But we all know winter ain’t like that. How come no one onscreen is ever keeling over from a heart attack after shoveling heavy snow for four hours?

POSTED // Nov 11,2009 - 2012 isn’t really a movie; it’s more like director/FX-mad wannabe supervillain Roland Emmerich calling out every other disaster film that has come before, including his own ...

POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - But Halloween, to me, isn't about "scary," it's about "creepy." Scares make you jump out of your seat and scream, but then they're gone. The creeps stay with you forever...