Straight to the point, then: This week’s Escape to the Movies is the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, the release of ...

This article includes spoilers for both the movie and the comic book Kick-Ass. The things that are supposed to set us off as ...

Kick-Ass, this week’s movie under consideration, is one part spoof and one part celebration of superhero movies. The fact that it exists at ...

I devoted this week’s Escape to The Movies to Marvel Films’ grand, still-in-progress Avengers experiment: Not only the first superhero team up live-action ...

There are certain things you’ll almost never get a film critic to admit to, chief among them being that Robert Altman was overrated. ...

There’s a documentary making the pre-release and festival-circuit rounds now called “The People vs. George Lucas.” No, really. Check it out. I haven’t ...

Even in an age of “new media” – where a viral clip of a home video shot 15 years ago can turn a ...

Next Wednesday is March 17th, a.k.a. St. Patrick’s Day. In its native country, Ireland, it’s both a religious holiday commemorating the life of ...

Tim Burton might be one of the first “new” (as in “became famous after you were born”) filmmakers to be recognized by my ...

The conventional wisdom is that videogame movies – that is to say, movies based on videogames – suck. Conventional wisdom is, thus far, ...

Prologue Once upon a time, a young man found himself in a peculiar position: Summoned before a group of space aliens, (which would’ve ...

Two days from the publication of this piece will be Valentine’s Day, the one day out of the year where one can openly ...