POSTED // Sep 24,2008 - I have to confess that I’m not entirely sure what the “miracle” at St. Anna is meant to be. I get that there is a small confluence of events that comes together during the larger, very horrific awfulness that transpires in the tiny Italian...

POSTED // Sep 3,2008 - It’s the home stretch of the movie year, when the cinematic floodgates open and we are deluged by all the movies hoping for Oscar glory and other year-end awards notices … not to mention all the goofy counter-programming. So why not pile...

POSTED // Aug 13,2008 - Does life change after high school, or is it just more of the same-old same-old? Seems to me it must be a little bit of both, because as I sat in the dark watching American Teen, the intimate and incisive new documentary about senior year for five high-schoolers,...

POSTED // Aug 6,2008 - Ready for Hamlet 2? When the Sundance comedy—about a high school drama teacher, played by Steve Coogan, who inspires his students with a politically incorrect sequel to the Bard’s play—gets a wide release in August, it’ll be only...

POSTED // Jul 30,2008 -  I’m a big, big fan of 1999’s The Mummy. This needs to be said, because it’s vital to understanding how deep my disappointment is with The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third—and now I hope final—installment...

POSTED // Jul 9,2008 - Now how does this happen? The first Hellboy movie was crazy mad insane; you couldn’t even figure out what the frak was going on a lot of the time but it didn’t matter, because it was that wildly entertaining in its all-out, geek-out nuttiness....

POSTED // Jun 25,2008 - It’s June—Gay Pride Month—and time again to talk about great movies and other DVD goodies that celebrate openness, acceptance and not caring about who sleeps with whom. Or, as is usually the case, DVDs that hail from a tiny subgenre...

POSTED // May 28,2008 - Maybe all you need to know about The Fall is that it’s “presented by” David Fincher and Spike Jonze, two guys who screw with our brains in the name of entertainment. And we love them for it because they expand our ideas about what movies...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - It’s summertime, which means blockbusters at the multiplex: big, loud, goofy movies. Even when they’re wonderful, that inevitably means that smaller, quieter films—even ones that should, theoretically, appeal to the blockbuster crowd—get...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - Baby Mama? Really? That’s where we’re going with this? We’re turning supposedly grown women into juvenile idiots like we’ve been doing with supposedly grown men of late? Look: Babies are great. Sex is great. Messy and ridiculous...