POSTED // Jun 22,2012 - In these apocalypse-obsessed times leading up to December 2012, we’ve seen the end of the world as we know it turned into a metaphor for plenty of different social and political ideas.

POSTED // Jun 15,2012 - Is Rock of Ages fundamentally—OK, for the sake of argument, let’s say entirely—about nostalgia? Sure, it is. The better question is, how is it about nostalgia?

POSTED // Jun 15,2012 - There are filmmakers who seem destined to be misunderstood as shallow stylists simply because what they do on the surface is so distinctive.

POSTED // Jun 12,2012 - The subtitle on the cover of Matthew Batt’s memoir, Sugarhouse, reads “Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home.”

POSTED // Jun 8,2012 - While the Internet does its typical speculative-overdrive thing, director Ridley Scott has played fairly coy about whether or not his new science-fiction tale Prometheus is, in fact, a “prequel” of sorts

POSTED // Jun 8,2012 - What do you do for a story when you’re plowing your way into the third installment of an animated film series that was never particularly inspired to begin with?

POSTED // May 31,2012 - On April 20, Box Office Magazine published online Amy Nicholson’s review of the blockbuster The Avengers. At the time, it was the only review aggregated by RottenTomatoes.com that did not bear t

POSTED // May 16,2012 - With The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen finds himself addressing a situation no entertainer wants to confront: What do you do when the shtick that was your bread & butter just can’t work anymor

POSTED // May 11,2012 - Dark Shadows marks the eighth collaboration between director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp over a span of more than 20 years, and in some ways you could certainly say the partnership has been a fruitful

POSTED // May 11,2012 - When Undefeated scored a victory in the Documentary Feature category at this year’s Academy Awards, it would have been easy to take the cynical view that it was simply another Triumph of the Cam