A meteor crashes smack-dab in the middle of a small rural community. An extra-terrestrial menace emerges to terrorize the people of...

Characters. Characters matter. Especially in “scary” movies–after all, how can I experience true fear if I don’t care about the people on...

He isn’t a man so much as a presence. As soon as he steps into a room, every other occupant seems to shrink. He rarely speaks, and...

Nothing better supports the argument that Hollywood has run out of ideas than the trailer for The Expendables 2. At least you can’t...

George Lucas may not have directed Red Tails himself, but he definitely left some fingerprints on it. Like Star Wars and the Indiana...

“Does The Hobbit really need to be divided into three films?” It’s a valid question. I’ll admit, I mulled it over more than once. The...

Steven Spielberg is one of our greatest living storytellers. I seem to recall that several critics accused last year’s War Horse of being...

There were only two reasons I wanted to check out this rather routine-looking slasher flick. First, it costars Josh Peck, best known for...

Disney has a talent for spinning existential despair into heartwarming, hilarious adventures; like the company’s best output (Aladdin,...

Tim Burton returns to form with this animated love letter to The Bride of Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Gremlins,...

Haywire lets Michael Fassbender down. Inglourious Basterds. Hunger. X-Men: First Class. Shame. The man has more than established himself...

While the trailers are selling it as something of a horror/action hybrid, The Grey is actually a poetic, contemplative, economically-told...

After watching Rare Exports last weekend, I was in the mood for another offbeat Holiday movie, and Anna and the Apocalypse—a Christmas...

The season finale of Telltale’s Walking Dead adventure game showed up on Playstation Network way late in the day. To kill time while my...

I was still feeling a little sick this morning, but I’m a glutton for punishment as well as a cinephile, so I willed myself out of bed,...

Gravity is no ordinary movie; it is an experience, in every conceivable sense of the word. Director Alfonso Cuaron’s fluid, free-floating...

For some directors, it takes a few films to ease into a consistent creative voice. Others, including Martin Scorsese (Who’s That Knocking...

The Wolverine is the best X-Men related film to date, by far. Like The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall, it finds its central character at...

Guillermo del Toro ends the credits of his love letter to monster movies with a dedication to Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda. This...

With Quentin Tarantino, it’s never about the story. When the maverick director chooses a premise, he leans towards the audacious, the...