As a journalist, I don’t do this very often, but let’s do a little math. Yesterday, November 3, summer flop Year One was released on DVD. The movie initially hit theaters on June 19. Days elapsed = 156. Also out on DVD yesterday was action flick G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. That movie didn’t [...]

When Michael Jackson died over the summer, my life wasn’t exactly turned upside-down; I didn’t really learn to love his music until high school. So maybe I’m not the right person to say this, but This Is It, the film that is basically a release of behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson’s preparations for what would have [...]

Johnny 5 is angry, Hollywood. Very angry. Listen, I know the ’80s are the laughing stock of pop culture, but today’s pop culture owes itself to triumphs and failures of that decade, not to mention many people hold ’80s movies and TV shows close to their hearts. With all that said, is there any reason [...]

This is the one weekend every year (in recent memory) where a majority of the film-loving community lets out a collective groan. It’s “Saw Weekend,” and in 2009 the Saw franchise celebrates its sixth birthday. Groan. Then again, it’s not that I’m really all that miffed this time around. When Saw IV and Saw V [...]

Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of one of the all-time greatest children’s books Where the Wild Things Are comes out Friday and it makes me wonder, what took ‘em so long? If feature-length films could be made of Dr. Seuss legends How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat and Horton Hears a Who!, [...]

Have you ever really sat down and thought about this? Why there’s an entire film genre dedicated to zombies? In honor of Zombieland coming out this week, I could have tried putting together a Top 10 of zombie movies, but I’m going to be honest – I haven’t seen ten of them. I can think [...]

As a big fan of the superhero genre, it’s my responsibility to lambast movies that should not be made. “Hancock 2” is one of them.  “Hancock” director Peter Berg has been in the news a lot lately, mostly for his announcement that the sequel to his horribly mediocre superhero with a PR problem movie is [...]

Completely out of nowhere, it was announced this morning that Walt Disney Co. had purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. Wow.  I’ve been following the news on JoBlo this morning, and the superhero movie-lover inside me wondered immediately how it would affect the current Marvel films in development. The answer is apparently that it won’t [...]

As a movie-lover, I sometimes feel bad about alienating the genre of horror movies as much as I do considering how well they perform at the box office. I watch very few of them and it’s not because I’m too scared (though I’ll admit I get jumpy no matter how many times horror directors abuse [...]

To fairly represent myself while sharing my thoughts on Quentin Tarantino’s seventh feature film release, “Inglourious Basterds,” I should be forward in mentioning that I’m Jewish, and if you know anything about this movie, it’s more or less a Holocaust revenge fantasy. I recently watched Edward Zwick’s latest film “Defiance” starring Daniel Craig and Liev [...]

As I prayed for so fervently, Peter Jackson produced sci-fi alien actioner “District 9″ took first at the Box Office with $37.4 M this past weekend. I’m not trying to see to it that all films I like cash in at the box office, but like I said in my review, this is the kind [...]