To the degree that there’s anything truly risky about the making of a movie in the most currently-popular genre in the world, by ...

Many sorts of people are called “walking contradictions,” almost none of them deservedly. Most of the time it’s a phrase used to deride ...

I’m expecting to catch a bit of backlash over this week’s review of Black Swan specifically for my attempted skewering of the idea ...

This has been genuinely enlightening. Last week, I asked fans for their thoughts on what fondly-remembered media properties ought to be the X-chromosome’s ...

I don’t do a lot of research for these columns (or shows, for that matter.) I don’t intend that to sound like showing ...

“I guess when everybody shut up, like, ‘he’s never going to make a film’ – then I’ll make a film and, ‘oh! It’s ...

One of the most conspicuous casualties of television programming in the age of 24-hour cable and internet broadcasts (in the United States, anyway, ...

[puzzle=1]The movies have given us a lot of “WTF?” moments over the years, but most of the time we never find out just ...

Followers of this column and/or its sister series will recall that I’m fond of the maxim “You Can Make a Good Movie Out ...

So by now we’ve all heard that there’s going to be a new Superman movie, yes? Well, if you hadn’t, yeah, there’s going ...

As I’ve mentioned recently, movie theaters in 2010 haven’t been very hospitable to nerds, as one film after another built around premises and/or ...

All that research for my contribution to last week’s Escapist-wide coverage of Dungeons & Dragons left me with an itch for swords and ...