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Once upon a time I was sitting across a desk from an old high school friend who had recently begun a career in the finance sector. Inspired by the large map of the world behind me, she playfully pulled out her calculator and mathematically proved–to her satisfaction, at least–that Russia was [...]

Having proved she could hold her own with the boys and their toys in last year’s entertaining action comedy The Losers, Zoe Saldana justifiably headlines her own action opus as a sexy, revenge-minded assassin in Colombiana, the latest slick but slight shoot ‘em up to roll out of the prolific Luc Besson action factory.

Tom Hardy has never disappointed me. There might have been some times, before I knew who he was, when maybe he wasn’t at the top of his game. I’m looking at you, Star Trek: Nemesis. But consistently, since Bronson, I will see anything with Tom Hardy in it.

Few movies define the phrase “man up” more than director Sam Peckinpah’s divisive 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, in which Dustin Hoffman’s timid mathematician makes a ferociously violent stand against some British yokels who’ve been harassing him. To some critics it was an exploration of anti-violence, to others a misogynistic thing that [...]

The original Planet of the Apes franchise, spanning five films from the original 1968 Charlton Heston movie to 1973’s Battle for the Planet of the Apes, was equal parts science fiction and social satire. It turned out that people wearing chimp costumes were remarkably versatile in service of the latter goal, making [...]

The Help is a film adaptation of The New York Times best seller written by Kathryn Stockett.
Set in 1960’s Jackson, Mississippi, Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns home fresh from college with big dreams of becoming a writer. She takes a job writing a cleaning column for a local newspaper, a [...]

A film as much about its pedigree (Oscar winning actors, respected up-and-comers, A-list director and screenwriter) as its story, The Debt for curious reasons sat on the shelf for over a year before it was released last August. Usually, that indicates a fair amount of trouble for the production, but I [...]

I was a huge fan of Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July’s 2005 break-out film. And I wasn’t alone. The movie won tons of awards, including several at the Cannes Film Festival. So I was feeling excitement and also some trepidation when I sat down to view The [...]

If, like me, you’ve been both fascinated and unnerved by the recent articles describing neutrinos that may be travelling faster than the speed of light, you may also have developed a new, less skeptical view of things previously filed under “science fiction,” or at least are no [...]

The Devil’s Double is a movie designed to be noticed. There’s the alliterate title, the plot involving the sadistic, real-life exploits of Uday Saddam Hussein (eldest son of the late Iraqi dictator), the unique perspective from which it’s told and, last but not least, the guaranteed attention-grabber that is an actor playing [...]