The Happening

The Lady in the Water director M. Night Shyamalan puts “PG-13″ suspense on pause to tell this grim apocalyptic tale about a family fleeing a natural disaster that poses a grave threat to the whole of humanity. Mark Wahlberg and Spencer Breslin star [...]

The Love Guru

Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Grody for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his live to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka was abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India, and taken in by kindly gurus. [...]

Wall-E

Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot that travels to the deepest-reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been inhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has been taking out the trash, and collecting [...]

88 Minutes

Jon Avnet directs Al Pacino in the thriller 88 Minutes. Pacino plays a university professor who occasionally assists the FBI in matters of forensic psychiatry. As the film opens, the professor learns that someone plans to kill him in 88 minutes. As with the like-minded thriller D.O.A. (both the original and the remake), the protagonist must use his…

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Review

Everyone’s favorite archeologist adventurer returns for another globetrotting trek as George Lucas teams with screenwriter David Koepp to bring Indiana Jones back to the big screen nearly 20 years after Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Harrison Ford reprises the role that launched the series, while Steven Spielberg returns to the director’s chai…

Baby Mama

Former Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update” co-anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-star in this baby-fever comedy about a single, career-oriented woman who previously put parenthood on hold, and is forced to hire a surrogate mother when she discovers there is only a one-in-a-million chance that she will be able to get pregnant. Kate Holbrook (Fey) …

Shine a Light

After exploring the careers of the Band and Bob Dylan in The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, respectively, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese turns his lens on rock & roll legends the Rolling Stones for this documentary focusing on two concerts from the band’s 2006 A Bigger Bang tour. In addition to extensive coverage of the band’s two…

Speed Racer

The Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski usher anime icon Tatsuo Yoshida’s classic 1960s-era hit into the new millennium with this family-friendly story of a young racecar driver who takes on the mysterious Racer X in a custom-made, gadget-loaded speed machine named the Mach 5. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is the kind of driver that eve…

What Happens in Vegas…

Two strangers (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) find themselves wed and in bed after a wild night of Las Vegas shenanigans in this 20th Century Fox comedy. When they both recover to find that one of them won a jackpot the night before, the game is on as the two greedily vie for the loot, eventually discovering that maybe this ill-planned love conne…

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The Visitor

The post-9/11 U.S. has always seemed like a grieving widow waiting for the other fatalistic shoe to drop. Part of this comes from a government selling fear as the foundation for its continued power. The other stems from the media’s mindless grind of less-than-soothing imagery. Yet what many citizens fail to understand is that people more than politics are affected by our nervous kneejerk reactions. Such a sentiment forms the basis of Thomas McCarthy’s intriguing new film, The Visitor. [...]