Last week, I looked ahead to 2011. Given the enforced joviality of The Holidays, it shook out mostly on the positive side. Well, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The trailer for The Green Lantern – the opening salvo of a renewed effort (read: “Crap! Harry Potter is over! We need a ...

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 ...