NOTE: The following contains spoilers for about 60+ years of Marvel Comics stories and thus may also contain indirect spoilers for this and ...

Sucker Punch, opening in the U.S. today, is a movie about dreams – about the need for fantasy and imagination, as tools to ...

If you look at all our references, what we allude to in our films and our sitcom even… they’re almost exclusively American films. ...

I had more fun than I thought I would doing last week’s “Quit It” column on recurring formulas and devices I’d like to ...

At the turn of the Millennium, the writer/directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly were on top of the comedy world – with a string ...

X-Men: First Class may be the most open, unapologetic example of a major movie studio “taking a Mulligan” on a franchise in Hollywood ...

In the beginning, Old Hollywood had a problem: It wanted to wow audiences with the spectacle of unseen sights, but the realms of ...

Today (or, rather, the day this column will first appear) is February 4th, which has the distinction (if not the notoriety) of being ...

Difference #1,437 between my job and yours: You only have to hear about the problem of declining movie theater revenues maybe once a ...

2010 has come to a close, and 2011 is now upon us. For me, it’s a time to look ahead at all the ...

If you ever need an example of the power of a work of fiction to transform a culture, you need look no further ...

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