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Gordon Gekko seems to bring out the actorly best in Michael Douglas, who deservedly won an Oscar for playing the cold-blooded corporate raider in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and so skillfully reprises the part in this glossy follow-up that winning a second gold man doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

It took a couple of viewings, but I ultimately found Salt to be the real deal when it comes to action thrillers, a most excellent assault of relentless pacing, cool stunts and ridiculous logic that not only sees star Angelina Jolie back in sexy-shooting mode, but marks a successful return to mainstream form [...]

Steve Carell makes for a very funny sort-of-bad-guy in Despicable Me, a CGI ‘toon with an amusing premise that kids will find irresistible but as a whole isn’t half as funny as it should, or could, have been.

I was all set to hate this big-screen version of The A-Team the moment I learned Liam Neeson had been cast as Colonel ‘Hannibal’ Smith, the role made so memorable by a cigar-chomping George Peppard in the same-named 80’s TV show. Turns out that, for its first two acts, at least, this is a [...]

Once upon a time there was an animated ogre named Shrek.
He was in a movie that made a lot of money, so its studio said, what the heck?
There are enough ideas for a few more rounds.
We’ll make some sequels and try not to run the idea into the ground.
They came close, those studio suits did.
This [...]

The star-crossed exploits of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen continue in Eclipse, the third installment of the teen-friendly vampire franchise that makes itself infinitely more tolerable than its predecessors by dialing down the angst and ramping up the action.

Couch-jumping theatrics aside, Tom Cruise is still a movie star, and also the main reason to see Knight and Day, a breezy, Hitchcockian action comedy co-starring Cameron Diaz that nails the action stuff but veers a little off course when it comes to the comedy.

Having apparently run out of theme park rides to turn into mediocre movies, Disney, it seems, has decided to take scenes from its own films–in this case the Mickey Mouse portion of Fantasia–and turn them into loud, overblown star vehicles for Nicolas Cage and his growing collection of wigs.

Like a phoenix rising from the proverbial ashes of his stalled career, Sylvester Stallone managed to make himself relevant again a few years back with the fourth Rambo flick. With The Expendables, his massively entertaining, testosterone-fueled extravaganza of fistfights, firepower and fireballs, he rockets right past mere relevance and back to the top of [...]

The CGI people in A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis’ latest performance-capture piece, certainly look more realistic than the creepy-faced things that populated The Polar Express. But they’re still just a little off, enough to make this otherwise entertaining version of the beloved Charles Dickens tale feel as cold-hearted as Ebenezer Scrooge himself.