Like any child, I was willing to believe in fairies enough to clap and help save the dying Tinker Bell in Peter Pan, and felt touched and empowered when it worked. But I'm older now. I still be  

Cannes, France -- Sean Penn has great taste in movies. He championed Russian director Elem Klimov's 1985 Come and See long before most critics had ever even heard of it. So it's fitting that the  

Tarsem Singh’s The Fall suffers from the same problem as his previous effort, The Cell — grandiose images alone do not make for a compelling or coherent narrative. Probably best known as the dir  

Crossing over from premium cable to the big screen would seem to indicate that Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristen Davis) would   

Maybe some relics shouldn't be dug up. That was certainly the lesson in the earlier movies in the Indiana Jones series. And it's the lesson for the creators of the latest one, Indiana Jones and  

British writer/director Garth Jennings is a child of 1980s multiplex cinema, as the presence of his new film, Son of Rambow, overtly attests. And like many young directors working today, Jennings  

As a bit of a corrective, this follow-up to 2005's The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe certainly packs more filmmaking savvy than the other, more recent talking-animal allegory The Golden Comp  

Back in the day, I avidly read comic books. I was the kid who earned an allowance primarily so that I could rush the cigar store and newsstand every Friday to pick up my favorite titles (of course  

The movies love lonely middle-aged (and older) professors, as well as struggling, aging literary and academic writers. In the 1930 classic Blue Angel from Josef von Sternberg, an old professor (  

Opening to the urgent sounds of Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl," Girls Rock! wants to be an incisive call for action against a culture that seems to value surface over substance. Or at least that'  

Just before the film Young@Heart -- about a chorus of seniors, ages 73 to 92, who sings Rock & Roll songs -- opened in New York last month, music director Bob Cilman was cautiously optimistic abou  

Can you imagine Toby McGuire, at age 65, still playing Spider-Man? Or a Social Security-age Daniel Radcliffe still working his way through Harry Potter books, assuming J.K. Rowling or her estate   

The Showcase Cinemas Erlanger will forever hold a special place in my movie-going heart. Once the palace of local multiplexes, Erlanger's long, narrow screening rooms and spacious, promotions-lad  

As writer, director, producer and star, Stephen Chow wears more hats at one time than most players in the movie game, but his comic sensibilities are a bit of a throwback. Likely best known in th  

Morgan Spurlock's latest quasi-documentary asks many questions, including the biggie that stands as the film's title: Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Yes, spurred by the pending birth of