Personally speaking, when I first heard of Fantastic Mr Fox and found out who was a part of it, I knew I was going to see this movie no matter what.  After seeing movies such as Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited, I became a big Wes Anderson fan.  The [...]

Paul Rudd (Role Models) moves to the front of the comedian brat pack in a hilarious feature which raises the bar of the “Bro-mance” movie.

He plays Peter Klaven, a “girlfriend” guy, meaning he’s a serial monogamist who puts so much of his energy into his relationships with women that he’s failed to develop meaningful friendships with male friends. Now forced to find a best man for his wedding, he seeks a new

Taken is not thick on plot. What it lacks in dynamic storyline, though, it makes up in style and action. Liam Neeson plays a retired CIA agent, Bryan Mills, whose teenage daughter is abducted by a human trafficking ring while she is in Paris for the summer. Mills springs into action, flying to Paris to seek out his daughter amidst secretive and violent sex traders and corrupt officials.

You know those big canisters of popcorn you get as a gift every once in a while?  The ones with three or so different flavors of popcorn in them?  Yeah, I don’t like those. It wasn’t the flavoring (I LOVE flavor).  It was the popcorn.  Stale.  Denser than it should be. Kind of rubbery.  Problem [...]

Inkheart, a new movie adapted from the trilogy by Cornelia Funke, is coming out later this month.  It’s a family-friendly film packed with fantasy adventure and centered on a father-daughter relationship.  I’m a sucker for a good trailer, but this one looks like the real deal.  Click here for the trailer. Look for a review [...]

This installment is set up as the prequel to the first Beethoven movie, and apparently goes behind the scenes of the 1992 hit. In it, Jonathan Silverman plays a single dad (who is also an animal trainer on a Hollywood lot) whose son (Moises Arias) happens upon the 200-pound St. Bernard. Hairy hijinx follow…

YESman (PG 13) Staring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, Rhys Darby, John Micheal Higgins, Terence Stamp Directed by: Peyton Reed Jim Carrey is back, and this time, he’s a (funny) grown up. If you are like me, you can’t stare at Carrey’s perfect set of pearly white teeth and not remember the days when [...]

Nothing Like the Holidays (rated PG 13) Staring: John Leguizamo, Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, Elizabeth Pena Directed by: Alfred De Villa, Luis Guzman Nothing Like the Holidays is a warm, family friendly movie set in Humbolt Park, Chicago. The Rodriguez family reunites for the holiday season after 3 years in opposite corners of the country [...]

In 2005, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins reinvigorated the nearly moribund franchise and introduced a needed sense of gravitas into the comic book genre. Now, three years later, he has returned with The Dark Knight, a riveting and thoughtful exploration of the anatomy of heroism, the necessity of a moral order, and the conflict–and similarities–between goodness [...]

For me, Woody Allen’s dramas can be just as good as the comedies he’s better known for; and these dramas seem to fall into at least two different categories: those that are reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman’s work, such as Interiors and September; and those that seem to be more inspired by the literature of Fyodor [...]