The following contains significant plot-spoilers for the film Avatar. The final year-and-change of the decade was a pretty lousy period for Americans who ...

I’ve no opinion on what we should call the decade now-passed (“00s?” “Naughts?”) but by any name my conclusion would be the same: ...

The end of the year is the time that critics assemble “Best of” lists, usually in the form of a top ten. So ...

By the time you read this, I’ll have seen (and reviewed) James Cameron’s Avatar, but as of this writing, I haven’t yet. This ...

In February 2006, actor Joaquin Phoenix may have come close to death. He had been in a car crash on a mostly-desolate L.A. ...

It’s said that there’s a special kind of evil genius at work within Hollywood film producers – the men who decide what gets ...

I’d like to share something with you: When movie critics get together, we talk shop – mostly stuff we’ve seen, stuff we want ...

Here’s a sentence I never could’ve guessed I’d be writing: A publicity photo of a shirtless Taylor Lautner convinced me to read the ...

(NOTICE: This article may contain spoilers for the movie “2012.”) In October of 2008, The Guardian published a “Life & Style” article by ...

“I’ve never met a cautionary tale before.” I’ve been trying to force that sentence out of my head since it popped in on ...

I love Halloween. Halloween fascinated me as a kid, and fascinates me to this day. Like Christmas, Easter and the other half-secular Western/American ...

Supposedly, this is a true story (I’ve heard it from two sources, at least): In 1982, Samuel Z. Arkoff, the famous producer of ...