If you’ve followed Hollywood trends this year, you’ve already noticed the inordinate amount of movies centered around an action team. It’s not just “The A-Team” which comes out Friday, but last April’s “The Losers” and this August’s “The Expendables,” which boasts Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham and Jet Li among others. As a result, [...]

An indistinctive stew of genres best describes Peter Jackson and Co.’s attempt at adapting the Alice Sebold novel “The Lovely Bones.” Part murder mystery, part family drama and part Salvador Dali painting, the film suffers an epic identity crisis which it hopes to mask by drowning you in evocative symbolism.

There really is something a bit fantastic about Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation debut “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” The quirky spirit of the Roald Dahl book could only be captured by a filmmaker with a deep and unforgiving wit. Anderson’s dry and subtle sense of humor might not translate into big dollars (at least by comparison to [...]

I wouldn’t normally ever report news on a movie such as contemporary teen romance fairytale “Beastly,” but my Summer Movie Preview has mention of “Beastly” coming out at the end of July, so as an amendment to that post, I felt inclined to mention that CBS Films is shelving the film until 2011.

Summer 2010 continues to disappoint at the box office with another mediocre weekend. With four new films getting wide releases, “Shrek Forever After” still remained on top with just about $25 million. The four new releases combined for around $50 million only.

After debuting at the MTV Movie Awards last night, the first teaser trailer for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1″ is now online. You can check it out right here

Anyone could market or even direct “The Conversation” as a mystery, but Francis Ford Coppola manages to reveal some of our human tendencies in his film just as well as he holds us in suspense. Voyeurism, like it or not, is a human characteristic. Modern day reality television simultaneously proves both this point alone and [...]

Memorial Day weekend favored families at the movies. Three-day weekend totals (listed below) and four-day estimates both have “Shrek Forever After” at number one for the second straight week, falling only 38 percent from a mildly disappointing opening. “Sex and the City 2” and “Prince of Persia” finished neck and neck, with “Sex” getting the [...]