POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - It's hard to know sometimes whether the Coen brothers are ... well, not exactly pulling our collective leg, because it's pretty clear that they're authentically earnest with all their films ...

POSTED // Oct 21,2009 - 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 ...

POSTED // Oct 14,2009 - 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.

POSTED // Sep 16,2009 - Ah, I finally figured out why I’d had it in my head—after seeing trailers and TV ads—that The Informant! was a Coen Brothers movie ...

POSTED // Sep 9,2009 - I love classical movies. That’s right, not classic movies: classical movies.

POSTED // Aug 26,2009 - Maybe it’s totally not true that Woodstock was totally awesome. Maybe it really was just a bunch of smelly, unwashed hippies getting high and ending up naked, slathered in mud and not even able to hear all the music.

POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - People walked on the moon. Walked on the moon. It sounds like science fiction, but it's history—40-yearsgone history. Outside the living memory of many, many people now alive ...

POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - There are always angry questions bandied about in the wake of any work by Sacha Baron Cohen, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone ask this one: "How far should we be expected to dumb down movies?"

POSTED // Jul 1,2009 - This is how far cartoons have descended in the last decade and a half: The Lion King was Shakespearean, while Ice Age is Everybody Loves Raymond-ean ...

POSTED // Jun 10,2009 - "Straight to DVD": It's a phrase that has inspired fear in the hearts of movie lovers, because it has long indicated a flick not good enough to warrant a theatrical release ...