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 ...

POSTED // Jun 3,2009 - It’s always hard to know what’s going through the heads of filmmakers, but I think that maybe the folks behind this big-screen mounting of the 1970s Saturday-morning series believe they’ve made a cheeky homage to the cheapie Sid and Marty Krofft science-fiction kiddie mind-bender.

POSTED // May 6,2009 - There's an old song by the pop duo Daryl Hall and John Oates called "Everywhere I Look," which wanted— almost 20 years ago ...

POSTED // May 6,2009 - Oh my goodness, I didn’t expect this: Paris 36 is The Muppet Show, except, you know, in 1936 Paris ...

POSTED // Apr 29,2009 - We see a beautiful jewel of a planet, with alien invaders swooping down to steal precious resources. Oh, but look at that: It's humans as the malevolent alien invaders ...

POSTED // Apr 15,2009 - This is what it is (Americanized): A research aide to a congressman is dead. Was it a suicide? Was it an accident? Was it murder? Did her boss have something to do with it?

POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - animal companions in its titles even when the movies have nothing to do with pets. There are good reasons to check out movies like Wag the Dog, Dog Day Afternoon, A Boy and His Dog, Dog Soliders.

POSTED // Apr 1,2009 - You’ve seen it in the TV ads and trailers: Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez drive their souped-up hotrod under a burning gas tanker that’s flipping through the air ...

POSTED // Mar 25,2009 - Which comes, of course, when her son, Oscar (Jason Spevack) gets kicked out his elementary school. He's a nuisance, but of the imaginative, unmedicated, won't-be-corralled type...

POSTED // Mar 11,2009 - Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) is a young woman apparently wandering through life, yet seeking direction. Lucy is her dog, a “yellowish-brown” mutt, her emotional compass and her only friend.