Horror films are a tricky business.  Actually they aren’t all.  Basically if you make any horror film no matter how bad, people will go see it and it will earn a sequel.  But making a good horror film is very tricky.  I love good horror films, which means I don’t like a lot of horror [...]

I really thought THE BLING RING would be the movie that brought some redemption to Sofia Coppola.  After two consecutive disasters in MARIE ANTOINETTE and SOMEWHERE, her finest film LOST IN TRANSLATION seems like a long time ago.  But after THE BLING RING debuted at Cannes, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to do anything [...]

WORLD WAR Z will be hitting theaters in just a few short weeks and the marketing team needs to get their stuff in gear.  Today we get a new poster that doesn’t do much to titillate the senses.  Brad Pitt standing alone on top of a building looking at a destroyed city isn’t as exciting [...]

Since his movies don’t appeal to a wide audience, not everyone is a fan of Noah Baumbach.  His films include THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING and GREENBERG, along with FRANCES HA, which recently premiered at Cannes.  But he’s developed a fanbase, kind of like a slightly less successful version of Wes [...]

THE HANGOVER PART III catches up with the Wolf Pack as they host an intervention to convince Alan (Zach Galifinakis) to receive help from a facility in Arizona called New Horizons after the death of Sid, Alan and Tracy’s father. En route the Pack is attacked and run off the road by a mobster, Marshall, [...]

Lets face it, sequels are rarely better than the original. Usually, the higher up in numerical sequels a film goes, the quality drops exponentially. However, sometimes the third in a series, while perhaps still not as good as the first, is better than the sequel. So I’ve compiled a list of 10 franchises where the [...]

In 1943, the Germans established Stalag Luft III, built for the sole purpose of housing the finest escapees any POW camp has ever known. There was really only one problem for the German captors: it housed the finest escapees any POW camp has ever known. And so it’s not long before one of the prisoners, [...]

There’s a lot going on in the first trailer for WE’RE THE MILLERS, but I think the only thing anyone is going to remember is that it features Jennifer Aniston stripping.  I’m not complaining, but I get nervous when movies try to sell tickets on one gimmick.  But if the thought of Jennifer Aniston doing [...]

I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is universally loved as an actor, since his days on ‘Third Rock From The Sun’ and even earlier.  But the real question is; can Joseph Gordon-Levitt write and direct a movie that he’s starring in?  Well, we’ll soon find out as the young actor has just completed DON JON and the [...]

Spike Jonze is definitely one of the most original and peculiar filmmakers to work in Hollywood.  That seems like a big statement but when you consider his wonderfully array of films: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION and most recently 2009′s WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, it makes more sense.  He also directed perhaps my favorite music [...]