There are really only two big movies opening this weekend. One involves the boy wizard, the other a fat Australian guy who threw a telephone at somebody. (Remember that?) I’ve seen both films and will be reviewing them in de...
‘Firefly‘ fans often lament that their favorite show was canceled halfway through its first season. Well, the plain fact is that hardly anybody watched the series, and its broadcast ratings were terrible. Likewise, whe...
A recent ‘New York Times’ article about Michael Douglas, his health troubles, and the dual Oscar campaigns of two of his films (the very good ‘Solitary Man‘ and the less-good-but-still-pretty-good ‘Wa...
We’re all familiar with the time-honored ritual of the dinner date followed by a movie. These days, a number of movie theaters combine the two activities by serving food and drinks right to your (premium priced) seats. Now, ...
There was something of a question mark going into the weekend: Would the feel-good romantic comedy ‘Morning Glory’ be the box office victor or would Tony Scott’s instantly-underrated runaway train thriller ‘...
As Hollywood logic goes, if you liked something once, you’ll like it even better three times or more. For this week’s Roundtable, we take a look at our favorite movie series that have had at least three entries.
At least it can be said that there’s something for everyone at the movie theater this weekend – from action fanatics to sci-fi freaks (Vulcan ears optional) to romantic comedy sweethearts to aficionados of harrowing French d...
Perhaps you’ve already seen this video clip as it made the rounds recently? Well, not everyone has, so I’m featuring it here too, because I think it’s kind of neat. When watching a classic Charlie Chaplin film on...
As I mentioned a couple months ago, plans to bring Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel ‘Dune’ back to the big screen with a new remake (or re-adaptation) have been in the works for some time now. Peter Berg was ori...
Another week, another horrible movie flocked to by mass audiences. In this case, it’s the frenetic, charmless, outrageously unfunny DreamWorks Animation trifle ‘Megamind,’ which brought in a staggering amount of ...
I think I blew my timing on this one. I had planned to post about this on Friday, in order to give you guys advance notice in case you wanted to bid on any of the ‘Back to the Future’ movie props that Profiles in Histo...
No, not fiction movies. That could be anything. This week, the Roundtable goes meta, as we look at the best fictional movies that only exist within other movies or TV shows.
