Denzel Washington plays the last black man on earth in the post-apocalyptic "The Book of Eli", a film that borrows heavily from those which have gone before it, including old spagetti westerns and the Mad Max films (I swear I even detect a little Pl...(read more)

Careers in Hollywood have an ebb and flow to them. Once upon a time, comedians like Martin Short and Billy Crystal were the top comedic actors around, and Jean Claude Van Damme was one of the biggest action box office draws. Things change, tastes ...(read more)

Martin Scorsese's enigmatic "Shutter Island" is destined to be one of the best and most misunderstood films of the year. He plays with both the film noir genre and surrealism in a manner not seen from him since 1999's "Bringing Out the Dead". Fede...(read more)

First-time writer/director Scott Cooper brings us this tale of addiction and the road in the form of country music singer "Bad Blake" (Jeff Bridges), a one-time star now reduced to playing small dives and bowling alleys. Bad travels the country in ...(read more)

The Coen brothers followed up their 2007 academy award winning "No Country For Old Men" with "Burn After Reading", a film considered a disappointment by many. The main complaint about that film was the harsh, cynical attitude and lack of sympatheti...(read more)

Congratulations, you've read a book.

People who read books often take a certain amount of intellectual pride in this accomplishment. It's not as if they wrote the book themselves (which actually would be an accomplishment) but they slog...(read more)

When writing the screenplay for Avatar, James Cameron allegedly (from what I've read on the internet, and we all know how reliable that is) watched some of the biggest box office successes in history, taking notes on what they all had in common, and...(read more)

Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" has all the elements of a summer blockbuster: there's some explosions, a big computer-animated ship sinks, and there's a hair-raising fist fight atop a towering bridge, which is under construction, of course. There's...(read more)

Up in the Air, written and directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You for Smoking), is the story of a professional sacker, that is someone who fires people for a living. George Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a "terminator" if you will, who flies ar...(read more)

The Blind Side is the real life story about the adversity a wealthy southern family must overcome when it's discovered they've taken a homeless black student who is extraordinarily good at football into their home. If you thought it was about a you...(read more)