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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 [...]

Jack Black officially gets his first franchise with Kung Fu Panda 2, the sequel to the hugely popular 2008 CGI adventure that improves on its parent by being a little less frenetic and, surprisingly, adopting a somewhat darker tone.

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 [...]

Two things I love about Werner Herzog: first, he is profoundly and candidly curious about the world; second, he is profoundly and candidly eccentric when he expresses his curiosity. Some documentarians sit quietly as they behold their subjects, seemingly keen to avoid imprinting them with their own agenda (which [...]

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 [...]

In 1958, an 11-year old kid in Scottsdale, Arizona borrowed his dad’s 8-mm movie camera to fulfill the requirements of the Boy Scouts’ photography merit badge. His first film was a western in which the big special effect was a staged crash of his Lionel model train set. He caught [...]

Bellflower is not for everyone. If you don’t like violence, forget about Bellflower. If you need a linear narrative, forget about Bellflower.
If neither of these is a problem, why haven’t you seen Bellflower yet?

If you haven’t seen Beginners yet, you should check it out.  What a great little gem of a movie. This film is definitely my favorite of 2011. Many people know the storyline of a man coming out as gay at age 70+, after his wife of many years passes away. Hal, played [...]

People the world over have been waiting for a new romantic comedy.
Yearning, aching, thirsting, wanting, needing a new romantic comedy.
Well, rejoice my brothers and sisters, here it is. Crazy Stupid Love stars Steve Carell as Cal Weaver, a middle aged married man who has just had divorce thrust on him by his wife, Emily (Julianne [...]