Bodybuilder Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) convinces his muscle-headed buddies Adrian (Anthony Mackie) and Paul (Dwayne Johnson) to join him in a scheme to kidnap and extort money from a shady busine  

Genius is a word thrown around loosely in today’s society, a tag that’s nearly useless thanks to this ubiquity. But every once in awhile, a story comes along about a person who seems to epitom  

Novels tend to use historic moments as the framing backdrop for intimate relationships, weaving factual strands with personal threads to remind us of the interconnectedness of experience. Ginger (  

Rob Zombie dives back into the grizzly world of live-action feature films, following his two-run reboot stand of the Halloween franchise, with this tale about a radio DJ (Sheri Moon Zombie) who re  

What happens if you let Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) mix and match elements of I Am Legend and Wall-E with The Matrix with Tom Cruise as the last man left to clean up the mess on Earth after an   

Historic sports-based biopics always run the risk of sentimentality, especially with a figure like Jackie Robinson. Too often the desire is to show the courage of the subject in the face of hatred  

Japanese animator Goro Miyazaki (Tales from Earthsea), likely unknown to audiences here in the States, gets a push for From Up On Poppy Hill (thanks to executive producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank  

So often, documentaries about people and communities that live outside the modern social framework present these factions as curiosities, maintaining a knowing distance tinged with judgment. With   

Critical analysis involves cutting through the clutter and noise, which can sometimes be quite difficult. For example, I caught The Place Beyond the Pines at the Toronto International Film Festival   

The premise of Australian director Wayne Blair’s period musical drama, The Sapphires, reads like a Down Under version of Dreamgirls but with a healthy dose of humor to appease the mainstreamers ou  

Once again, audiences find themselves face-to-face with the banality of modern parody, in the form of yet another take on paranormal evil. The Scary Movie franchise, based initially on characters   

The fanatic cult of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell devotees are eager to strap themselves in for this Raimi-endorsed reboot of his classic series. Having handpicked Uruguayan Fede Alvarez to shepher  

In much the same way that Bully sparked outrage over the challenging conditions this generation of children face against one another and school administrators who shirk their duties to promote and  

How timely to watch a film about an advertising executive (Gael García Bernal) who develops a campaign to defeat a referendum proposed by Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet in 1988. Director Pablo L  

Dror Moreh’s Academy Award-nominated feature documentary The Gatekeepers explores the grey areas of national security, not from an American perspective, but rather through the cold survivalist logic of the leaders of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret security force, which operates as a separate (but not exactly disconnected) arm of the Israeli government.