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Preview: The Descendents

R for quirk, awkward charm, grim fact that if George Clooney can be cuckolded, anybody can be cuckolded…

Preview: 11-11-11

How to Make a Forgettable Horror Film in Eleven Easy Steps…

Review: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

Smart-and-stupid movies like this tend to provoke one of three reactions: 1) Laughter; 2) Groans; and 3) Earnest academic analysis of the film’s cultural meaning.…

Preview: Immortals

It's taken 2500 years, but now, the Greeks can see their myths as they always imagined: gory, derivative, and poorly scripted.…

Preview: Happy Feet Two

PG for stereotypes about penguin ethnicities, the sexualization of young penguins…

Preview: J. Edgar

R for hypocrisy in high places, corruption that goes right to the top, big gay secrets…

Review: Ides of March

7-Word Review for the ADD-Afflicted: On paper, outstanding. Onscreen, it’s merely good. 700-Word Review for the Procrastinators: I’m disappointed by Ides of March, and I’ve got only myself to blame...…

Preview: Melancholia

R for colliding planets, colliding aesthetics, Hollywood cliche of building your big-budget disaster film around a protagonist with untreatable depression…