There’s nothing overtly offensive about Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups. There’s nothing terribly funny, or original either, in this tale about five middle age guys who reunite for a weeken]]> It’s not every summer we see the end of a cultural phenomenon, but with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on July 15, the saga of “the boy who lived” comes ]]> 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]]> Chemistry is everything when it comes to romantic comedies and stars Drew Barrymore and Justin Long have it to spare in Going the Distance, a rare entry that’s surprisingly intelligent in the ge]]> Author Stephenie Meyer does the same to Jack Finney’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers with The Host as what she did to the vampire myth in Twilight – namely dumb it down with a sappy teen r]]> There is no question that Scott Derrickson’s Sinister is a flawed movie. While we expect horror films to test the boundaries where an audience’s suspension of disbelief is concerned, this ]]> It’s not uncommon for life to get in the way of your becoming the person you want to be. But what’s ironic is that you often don’t realize that you’re failing to realize your g]]> Written by its star, Kristin Wiig, Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids seems intent on one-upping similar male-centric comedies like The Hangover and Wedding Crashers in the area of gross-out humor. However]]> Cop movies are a dime a dozen and writer/director David Ayer has done more than his fair share to keep the genre alive. Having written the Oscar-winning Training Day, and the Kurt Russell feature Dark]]> Much like the bathroom at the Bates Motel where Marion Crane met her untimely death, Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock is a bit of a mess. Attempting to tell the story about the making of one of the mos]]> A sense of doom and foreboding hangs over David Yates’ adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth chapter in J.K. Rowling’s pop culture epic. That the books]]> Men want to be James Bond; women want to be Carrie Bradshaw. Once you understand this, the appeal of Sex and the City is obvious. This New York babe has it all – professional success, a rich, go]]> How much you enjoy Danny Boyle’s Trance depends entirely on how much you like to be manipulated while watching a movie. And while it might be distracting to other viewers, they may end up thanki]]> In 1996, the citizens of Carthage, Texas, refused to believe that Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) had murdered Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). While they agreed that if anyone had it coming, it was Nuge]]> While the premise is simple (couples face their problems, couples threaten to break up, couples unite…) in the right hands it could be turned into a sharp-edged commentary on modern married life.]]> My father always used to say that he hated taking us to Disney animated films, yet I remember him being the one who laughed the most at what was happening on the screen. Of course, that’s the se]]> 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]]> Bearing the expectations of millions and the fortunes of Lionsgate Studios on its shoulders, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games arrives in theaters as a mixed bag. To be su]]> Untitled Document Films like Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters are tricky to bring to the screen; in tackling serious subjects, they run the ]]>