Cars 2 is far more entertaining than the 2006 original, and it’s a good thing, because it’s also the weakest film in the Pixar cannon. As one would expect, the film looks fabulous, and has some nifty action sequences, but…
The youngest network president in television history, IBC’s Francis “Frank” Xavier Cross (Bill Murray) will stop at nothing to “own” Christmas in the Nielsen ratings. His holiday lineup features shows like “The Night the Reindeer Died” (in which a far-from-defenseless…
Let’s face it; most romantic comedies are pure fluff. So, when a love story with substance emerges, it’s quite notable. Crazy, Stupid, Love. is one of those rare romantic comedies that could appeal to both men and women and presents…
Every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, three movies will show up somewhere, sometime on television: A Christmas Carol (of which there are several good versions), A Christmas Story and It’s A Wonderful Life. After its copyright was inexplicably not renewed…
When A.A. Milne first published the Hundred Acre Wood stories in 1926, based on the stuffed toys that populated his son’s room, he couldn’t have imagined that his story about an anthropomorphic bear would become a $5.7 billion franchise. E.H…
Part satire, part comedy, part corrupted fairy tale, and part-farce, Errol Morris came across an article about dog-cloning that formed the nature of Tabloid. The director/co-executive producer labels his works “anti-documentaries,” not about obvious visual surfaces but about what lies…
Captain America: The First Avenger is the first fully formed, complete movie from Marvel Studios. The first Iron Man film is a lot of fun, but the second half drags in parts. Thor has great characters, but the story doesn’t…
A rare live-action drama film from the Hanna-Barbera studios (the producers of Tom and Jerry, Huckleberry Hound and others), 1977’s The Gathering won an Emmy for Outstanding Special – Drama or Comedy, and became a Christmas time tradition for many…
Given time, nearly every generation gets a film made about them. Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused is for the survivors of the 1970s: that group of Americans who came of age when bellbottoms, love beads, mantras, and marijuana were in…
Using co-screenwriter Martin Prinz’ novel as a starting point, German director Benjamin Heisenberg’s The Robber is based on the true story of Johann Kastenberger—the filmmakers have changed his last name to Rettenberger—a successful marathoner who robbed several Austrian banks in…