Prolific Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To typically directs 1-2 new movies every year. (Though he apparently didn’t make any in 2010, IMDb shows him making up the lost ground with three this year.) Somehow, remarkably, most of...
I believe that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences needs to implement a major overhaul of the Emmy nomination process, such that once a person (in a specific role) or show wins a category, they should be retired from that ...
I sure didn’t foresee the weekend being dominated by a 3D re-release of a 17-year-old animated movie – especially one whose new 3d conversion is receiving a Diamond Edition Blu-ray release in just two weeks.
In addition to everything else going on this time of year, September also traditionally marks the start of the school year. As either you or your kids head back to class, let’s use this week’s Roundtable to reflect on ...
Earlier this week, I headed over to the Gateway Megaplex in Salt Lake City, Utah for an advance screening of the new Brad Pitt baseball drama ‘Moneyball’. (While I’d love to talk about ‘Moneyball’ now...
I love it when general audiences walk into a widely-released indie-style movie expecting a standard genre flick and walk out scratching their heads, not exactly sure what they just watched nor how they feel about it. If you don...
For all the great movies you might get a chance to see at a major film festival like TIFF, the festival experience wouldn’t be complete without catching at least one total dog of a movie. For me, that distinction this year g...
Most of the negative early reviews for ‘Straw Dogs’ seem to have one thing in common – each reviewer made up his or her mind prior to seeing it that the movie would be worthless. With a closed mind, anyone familiar wit...
The advanced hype on ‘Drive’ has almost been too unbelievable, like it had been generated out of thin air in preparation for the impending Oscar season. We all know that hype is what eventually carries films to be nomi...
The director of ‘Chronos‘ and ‘Baraka‘ has a new film? Hell yes, I’m going to see that on the big screen, the bigger the better!
It all comes down to this last ‘Dead Island’ post. After two hours of single-player action and two sessions of co-op (amounting to twelve hours of gameplay), my co-op group hasn’t finished the game. Will I buy &#...
This is not a bad week for Netflix. There’s plenty to love that’s new to Instant Watch. While there are also plenty of flicks heading off, most of those are either things that I’ve never heard of or movies that a...
