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)

Like most Disney animated films, the simplistic storyline will seem highly familiar, but it's not the plot differentiates Disney movies, it's the characters and settings. This new version of The Princess and the Frog story takes place in early 20th...(read more)

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a Wes Anderson movie. If you know Anderson from The Royal Tenenbaums, or Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you might think an animated children's book would be an odd choice of film for him. Oddly enough, it isn't. Several litt...(read more)

Do Twilight fans (known as "twihards") suffer from a form of twi-tardation that prevents them from watching any Twilight related film critically, or is there something more to this Twilight thing than meets the eye?

"New Moon" picks up whe...(read more)

I think Robert Zemeckis' creepy animation style is starting to grow on me. While his previous christmas movie, "The Polar Express" still holds a special place in my heart as the scariest holiday film of all time, "A Christmas Carol" makes a gallant...(read more)

Made for $15,000 (the entire movie was filmed in the director's house) two years ago, Paranormal Activity has made an astounding $85 million since it's wide release earlier this fall. This success is in large part due to the trailers, which showed ...(read more)

"This movie is for the fans- This is it", This is the business that is "show".

The movie opens with scrolling text which tells us this footage was shot in April of 2009, backstage as Michael Jackson was rehearsing for his upcoming world t...(read more)