One of the things that made many of the classic horror films in the 1970s effective is they were done cheaply and sported a gritty esthetic. The fact that the images were grainy and that their low bud]]> It would be easy to pick apart Sngmoo Lee’s The Warrior’s Way. The plot is ridiculous, the acting runs the gamut form ham-fisted to comatose and the sheer number of nonsensical moments it ]]> Ah summer…the days are long, picnics are taken, the drive-ins are packed and superheroes, aliens and animated films take over the multiplex. As the saying goes, “You’ve got to make ]]> Character actors are made, not born. Often circumstances steer performers towards a career consisting mostly of supporting roles. James Cromwell would agree with this sentiment as he’s fashioned]]> Untitled Document Life is good for Roscoe Jenkins. His daytime talk show is a runaway success, he has a healthy young son, he’s engaged to the hott]]> From looking at actor Wesley Snipes, you’d never be able to tell he was on the last leg of a cross-country trip that took him to one major city a day over a week’s time. After hitting Wash]]> You have to give Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables one thing – it delivers exactly what it promises to. There are explosions (lots of explosions), male bonding, numerous examples of mac]]> His colleagues claim that animator Henry Selick sports a “rock and roll meets Da Vinci temperament.” This is an apt description for the director of the cult classic, The Nightma]]> At one point during Brian Klugman’s and Lee Sternhal’s The Words, author Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) is told that his novel is far too artistic and delicate to be published in today&rsquo]]> If you’ve followed Clint Eastwood’s career behind the camera, you’ll find that he’s an intensely loyal collaborator. He works with the same crew from one picture to the next an]]> Bearing the Steven Spielberg stamp of approval and the most effective viral ad campaign since The Blair Witch Project, the $15,000 independent horror feature Paranormal Activity, comes bearing the onu]]> There’s a subculture of people known as birders who engage in a rather unique competition each year. This informal contest is quite simple and a bit antiquated in execution as it involves sighti]]> I don’t pretend to know what goes on in the mind of Nicolas Cage when it comes to how he chooses which movies to make but I have a theory. Whenever he’s done a film that has a modicum of i]]> While everyone was falling all over themselves praising the films of John Hughes for their keen insight on the plight of teenagers, I couldn’t help but scoff at the “sincerity” found]]> If the reaction by the youngsters in the audience at last Saturday night’s preview of Disney’s Bolt is any indication, the new digital 3-D process that was used to make this fe]]> A bit of movie magic occurs in David Frankel’s Hope Springs, a surprisingly daring Hollywood production that deals with the thorny issue of how to rekindle sexual intimacy in a marriage long aft]]> While Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders’ The Croods shows you can teach an old caveman new tricks, it also drives home the point that some things never change, namely that teenagers will rebel and ]]> Coming off a successful season in 2001, Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane was faced with a daunting task. Having made it to the playoffs but losing his best players to free agency soon aft]]> Surprisingly intimate yet dealing with moral questions of epic proportion, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a movie befitting its subject as we know him. At once warm and folksy, at others fierce a]]> Director Baz Luhrmann is one of the more polemic filmmakers working today. While many praise his modern take on the Bard with his Romeo Juliet (1996) and his radical musical Moulin Rouge (2001), oth]]>