After the end… life goes on. For the survivors–and for the undead. Humans hide behind concrete walls and electrified fences, venturing...

Finally catching up on some movies that I didn’t have the energy to enjoy while I was working full-time, starting with The Ballad of...

My brother treated me to a Fathom Events screening of They Shall Not Grow Old, the new World War I documentary from Peter Jackson. The...

Watched The Red Shoes on FilmStruck. Golden Age cinema at its finest: sumptuous Technicolor photography, beautifully stylized studio...

Logged on to FilmStruck to watch The Adventures of Prince Achmed, yet another unconventional animation—although in this case, many of the...

Saw Logan Lucky today. I wouldn’t describe myself as an avid Soderbergh fan, but his much-anticipated return to the big screen is...

Watched The Wailing on Netflix. For most of its two-and-a-half-hour running time, it’s a gorgeously photographed, atmospheric thriller....

Sometimes, a legacy is a cage. When we allow our failures, our fears, and our shortcomings to define us, they become links in a chain...

In his review of Rob Cohen’s Alex Cross, Roger Ebert wrote: This is the first film Tyler Perry has appeared in that isn’t his own...

Of the Sam Raimi-produced exorcism flick The Possession, I wrote: Characters. Characters matter. Especially in ‘scary’ movies—after all,...

“Because I am sick and tired of it all.” This is the most genuine line of dialogue in the entirety of Taken 2. After tearing apart half...

What defines film noir? The gestures and archetypes? Do the femmes fatales, creeping shadows, and hardboiled narration carry any true...

Monsters aren’t born; they are created by their environments. Our actions, even those motivated by the best of intentions (such as asking...

When I wrote my decidedly negative review of The Smurfs 2, I mentioned that I’d hoped it would be a “pleasant surprise.“ That was,...

When I made the difficult decision to spend money on a screening of The Smurfs 2 (by which I mean “It was the only thing playing when I...

In 2008, South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-Woon directed The Good, the Bad, the Weird, a stylish, postmodern “Kimchee Western” featuring...

In this rollicking, ultra-violent, color-soaked throwback to the golden age of gangster flicks, director Ruben Fleischer paints in very...

I’m a sucker for a good love story. “Good” being the key word. These days, movie theaters and TV stations are saturated with a glut of...

It’s a remarkable musical number, played out almost entirely in a single continuous shot: a tight closeup on Anne Hathaway’s tortured...

Jack Reacher is about as generic as action heroes get. He is every male fantasy made flesh–Bruce Lee, Dirty Harry, and James Bond rolled...