THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
21 JUMP STREET: Watch It At Home – High School Meta-Bromance The meta-ization of contemporary comedy marches on: Community, of course, is a virtual meta-kingdom, but Happy Endings makes Friends jokes, th...
FRIENDS WITH KIDS: Worth A Ticket – Sitcom, In A Good Way We live in a pop culture where the recent Emmy Award nominees are so clearly superior to the films up for this past year’s Oscar that ...
JOHN CARTER: Watch It At Home – Never Goes Into Orbit All signs suggest that JOHN CARTER will be a financial failure of historic proportions, mostly because of its colossal cost (Disney admit...
SILENT HOUSE: Watch It At Home – A Curiosity SILENT HOUSE isn’t the first feature-length film to provide the illusion that it’s all been shot in a single continuous take. The mo...
THE LORAX: Not Even For Free – A Seussian Mess It may not be pretty, but surely it’s true–Credit must go where credit is due. In this case, that means the Universal Pictures Marketing ...
PROJECT X: Not Even For Free – Don’t RSVP How is it that no one has yet produced a 3D found-footage movie? You’d think the combination of the most (usually) mind-numbing gimmicks of the past ...