Helgeland scores with baseball flick 42

Chadwick Boseman shows great emotional depth and a wide range as baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

"Warm Bodies" will tear at your heartstrings (and your cerebral cortex)

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and like most people, your first thought is probably something along the lines of “Shoot! I forgot to do anything special.”

Wreck-It Ralph Review: Disney reaches a higher level of computer-animated cinema with new film

Disney's Wreck-It Ralph weaves together an upredictable narrative while maintaining cross-generational appeal.

“Our lives are not our own”: Cloud Atlas explores the past, present and future we share with one another

Cloud Atlas is, at its most simple point, an epic yarn of six different stories that detail how, basically, we are all connected, and that the actions of the present can both be influenced by the past and determine the future.

Back to the future...and the past: Looper tackles time travel

Time travel is always a messy premise, but no amount of DeLoreans or hot tubs could have salvaged this trope.

It’s alive...again! Tim Burton takes on a monster classic

The phrase “what’s old is new” is very true in the case of Tim Burton’s new stop-motion animation film, Frankenweenie, an adaptation of an animated short he did for Disney back in 1984.

'Graduate' remains a hit

When a film reaches a certain age, I believe we should honor and respect them for their influence, while simultaneously analyzing its lasting value as an artistic piece.

Lax film misses mark

An opportunity for conversations that matter turns into a mess of plot and character struggle

The Borrowers get animated: Disney and Studio Ghibli’s join forces to create Arrietty

Disney’s latest film breathes life into an old classic.

The Hunger Games satisfies appetite for adventure, provides a dark look at a possible future

By the end...we have come to judge the barbaric people of the Capitol through Katniss’ eyes, only to realize that we ourselves have paid to watch the Games.

Unless viewers like you compain a whole awful lot, no film’s going to get better. It’s not.

I had no doubt that Universal Studios was up to the challenge of bringing to life a well-loved children’s book. Boy was I wrong.

Taking a ride with Drive

You’ll enjoy it for the great performances, the deliberately cheesy, 80s-flavored soundtrack and, theoretically, all the film references. It’s worth seeing.

Woody Allen's filmic roots

Woody Allen would call himself the most derivative, referential director working today. So, it should be no problem discerning what may have led him to make Midnight in Paris.

The subtleties of Super 8

Whether or not you respond to their movies, Spielberg and Abrams are sentimental and optimistic filmmakers: their enthusiasm for their work shines through the best of their films.

Loose Canon: True Grit it and quit it

The Coen Brothers usually make films with their own flavor, and sprinkle in the spice of director’s long past. With True Grit, it is the opposite; they have made a film using the flavors of the director’s long past, with mere hints of their own spice.

Gnomeo a no go, in 3-D

Watching Kelly Asbury’s film Gnomeo and Juliet is a little like falling into a box of Sour Patch Kids: excessively colorful and sugary sweet with a bit of sourness just barely below the surface.

Loose Canon: “I would be losing my mind”

Black Swan comes from a tradition of films that confound our ideas of “high-brow” and “low-brow” by including electrifying elements from both.

“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger”

Our goal is to give the reader reference points for his or her favorite movies, in order to help spark an interest in film history. We will discuss the antecedents of a popular movie in reverse chronological order–working backwards through film history. This week, we will focus on Inception.

Life According to Agfa complicates morality

Life According to Agfa is a film about a potential future for Israel. The characterizations of the military, the Zionists, the Arabs and the police are meant as caricatures, not authentic portrayals of the Israeli reality. As Kosh said, ‘if we continue [our current policies], then this might happen.”

Kris reviews Clash of the Titans

If you think you’ll like it, you’ll probably like it.  If you think it looks stupid, just stay far away.  If you’re ambivalent, like I was, then you’ll probably feel about the same when you come out of the theater.

On sports movies

Sorority Row relies on blood, sex for thrills