25 years after directed the greatest courtroom drama ever made in “12 Angry Men,” acclaimed director Sidney Lumet returns with “The Verdict.” Starring Paul Newman in a performance best described as straight from the core, the film flips the idea of justice on its head and reveals the enduring human spirit that lies within the […]

It was not a question of whether  “Iron Man 2” would earn one of the highest weekend grosses of all-time, just a matter of where it would land. The follow-up to the 2008 superhero hit took in $128.1 million this weekend, good enough for fifth all time just ahead of “Shrek the Third” and right […]

I don’t have anything against talking animals. I love Disney movies like the rest of them. I’ll take talking toys, bugs, bears, penguins, fish, you name it — but an elite force of special unit guinea pigs in a live action setting is not something that screams fun for the whole family. No doubt that […]

Just when you thought the late ’90s and early ’00s were dead or locked away forever, Sony/Columbia makes an announcement that those rumors you heard about Men in Black III in 3-D were in fact true. The studio sent out a press release Friday that the third alien-blasting black-tie affair is underway for a Memorial Day […]

Let the summer begin. Take a deep breath folks, because summer at the movies is finally back. You’ve waited through a mediocre spring movie season and now it’s time for the summer tent poles to deliver. Week in and week out from now through the end of August, when you ask yourself “is there anything […]

Superhero movie follow-ups have been a tough business lately. “Iron Man 2” marks Marvel’s first sequel since “Spider-Man 3” left millions disappointed in 2007. So to quell any lingering fears, “Iron Man 2” is not a letdown. It’s far from it. To think director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey Jr. would lose sight of […]

At last, I’ve finished the Summer Movie Preview and what better way to end than with action, the genre summer movies are founded upon. There’s something about sun and stuff blowing sky high that just works like peanut butter and jelly. This summer has a lot of action to offer spanning different sub-genres from fantasy […]

Let’s continue with the summer’s second-most beloved genre: the comedy. Over the last decade, Judd Apatow ruled the summer release schedule. Now, he’s relinquished a bit to Happy Madison and 2010’s biggest craze: the action comedy. Five of the ten films on this list are action comedies. Wow.

(this story comes from PlayerAffinity.com and was written by Kieran Freemantle) The X-Men film series still seems to have some appeal to Matthew Vaughn, the director of “Layer Cake” and “Kick-Ass,” who is directing “X-Men: First Class” for 20th Century Fox. This is happening despite reports last week that stated he would not do the […]

Summer lovin’ happens so fast. Romance is hardly the flagship genre of the summer months, but it deserves some love regardless, especially in 2010. With teenage girls being a demographic that studios are dying to get their hands on (pardon that awkward image) thanks to the number one film on this list as depicted above, we […]

The box office can sleep easy now that the spring season is over. Ironically, nightmare slasher Freddy Krueger and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” were the easy winners this weekend with $32.9 million, helping the box office to a 2.2 percent increase in anticipation of the jolt that will come from Friday’s “Iron Man 2.”

Part two of our summer preview combines two genres not getting a whole lot of love this summer, science fiction and horror, albeit the summer’s most anticipated film is quite possibly at the top of this list. Of these six films, only three are particularly noteworthy. This a much more action-bent summer than past summers, […]

Ahh, summer movie season. Nothing compares. As such, this sumer’s preview will be unlike any season before it. I’ll cover the gamut, posting the most anticipated films in each genre and leaving no major film unmentioned. Summer movies are for everyone and it would be wrong to leave out even the most ridiculous of films […]

The Wicker Man” is a peculiar little film. It begins as a typical mystery: a Scottish detective travels to a remote Island off Scotland’s coast where he is to investigate a report of a missing girl. Then the film mutates into a musical of sorts with numerous shots of topless women. Then it becomes a […]