Spider-Man: New Silk Threads
A scant five years after Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, and Kirsten Dunst decamped from the Spider-Man series, Sony Pictures has already decided to start...
Go Bigger
Well, you figured Magic Mike would get a sequel. You figured it would be on a larger scale. You just didn’t figure it would...
Also-Ran
Of all the young, male comedic actors who have recently been in or directed movies that don’t hew to formula, Steve Carell is arguably...
Little Women: Forward March
We now have five Hollywood feature film adaptations of Little Women stretching back to 1933, to say nothing of other media that include a...
Dining In
Why do animators on films like Monster House and The Polar Express spend so much energy trying to realistically render people? The wave of...
John Carter: Man from Mars
They say the easiest reviews to write are for very bad movies and very good ones. This was an easy review to write, because...
Movie Shoot
Here's a fantastic movie idea: Tropic Thunder takes place on the set of a big-budget Hollywood Vietnam War film also entitled Tropic Thunder.
With a...
Girl in Progress: All About My Mother
And still no one has discovered a reliable way to draw Latino audiences to movie theaters the way Tyler Perry has been able to...
Wonderstruck: Bolt From the Blue
Six years ago, Martin Scorsese adapted Brian Selznick's illustrated novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret into an Oscar-nominated movie called Hugo. Now, the comparably...
Rocketman: Dear John
It’s one of the less likely stories of rock history: How did a stocky, balding, bespectacled, obviously gay, not wildly good-looking piano player from...
