As I left “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” a woman probably in her 40s or 50s exclaimed into her cell phone how it was the worst movie she’s ever seen. I rather liked it, though I’m definitely 20-30 years younger than she. That kind of split is evident of only a few films in cinema […]

The undisputed biggest weekend of August starts today. Three of the summer’s most anticipated films will all compete for the box office this weekend: Sylvester Stallone’s consummate action flick “The Expendables” featuring men whose average biceps circumference is bigger than my head, Julia Roberts in “Eat, Pray, Love” based on the bestseller and “Scott Pilgrim […]

Most aspiring filmmakers don’t even dare to dream about suddenly rising to fame; Edgar Wright is one of the few who has actually lived it. Even the most successful directors today would probably wish they were in his position at the young age of 36. Basically, who wouldn’t want to be Edgar Wright? The British […]

Two distinctly opposite methods of transportation are the focal point of the two trailers on hand this week. The first is a train and the second is some kind of alien spaceship. They are two November films: Tony Scott’s “Unstoppable” and the sci-fi flick “Sklyine” from the Strause brothers.

“The Other Guys” got it done, but the other guys not so much. The latest Will Ferrell/Adam McKay combination was good for more than their last film, “Step Brothers” by about $5 million with a total of $35.5 million, easily enough to take a declining box office.

The buddy cop comedy sub-genre has been limping about Hollywood as if shot in the leg from an awry 9mm bullet. Now it’s been found by the duo of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the pair behind “Anchorman,” “Talladega Nights” and “Step Brothers,” whose brand of contemporary idiot humor has been steadily met with compounding […]

That brings us to August. Anyone else feel as if there were a whole month of summer movies that were supposed to come out but never did? 2010 has been one of the bigger movie letdown years in awhile. Hopefully a few of these August films can make me change my mind.

When a zombie film gets a sequel, the assumption is that the producers are looking for ways to make more guts, gore and money. But “28 Weeks Later” is just as sharp as its predecessor in nearly every way, primarily in continuing the sci-fi post-apocalyptic elements that have clearly been thought out and made believable […]

At Comic Con a couple weeks back, a 40-second teaser for “The Avengers” was shown at the Marvel panel. What does this mean? Marvel has developed a logo. That’s about it. You can still watch it, however, as the clip has made its way online for all of us to watch despite it being completely […]

How is this for contrasting trailers? The teaser for the Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror film “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” and this winter’s kid-friendly film based on the classic cartoon, “Yogi Bear.” “Dark” debuted its footage at Comic Con. Del Toro described the film as being “as serious as an attack of [expletive] gonorrhea.” […]

“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” just bombed at the box office. We’ve come a long way since “Homeward Bound,” people. Now that you’ve had a paragraph break to dab the mist in the corners of your eyes at the mere mention of the 1993 classic featuring Chance, Sassy and Shadow, I can […]

For yet another week, no new films have along and made enough of a splash to beat out “Inception.” Steve Carell and Paul Rudd comedy “Dinner for Schmucks” earned just north of the $20 million comedy standard, but the sequel to “Cats & Dogs” tanked despite a wide release, finishing outside the top five.

There are countless ways to interpret a comic series for the big screen, not including story. “The Losers” could’ve been done as a straight-up action film about a team of black ops soldiers getting revenge on the man who left them for dead, but director Sylvain White opts to honor the source material with an […]