There are shots in Samsara (’12) of places you can’t believe exist on Earth, like the stone temples in the jungles of Myanmar that look like a CGI landscape from […]

Friday night was the monthly Midnites for Maniacs screening. In case you aren’t lucky enough to live in San Francisco, or if you live here but are just too foolish […]

Is it possible for a film to be obtuse and heavy-handed simultaneously? Hold that thought. Let’s consider. I just came back from Andrew Dominik‘s third feature, Killing Them Softly, starring Brad […]

I’ve been thinking lately about nuance. About shades of grey. It started with a comment-tiff I had with folks over at Bad Ass Digest.  I suggested an alternative viewpoint to […]

I just watched Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s latest feature. This is a film about male strippers that stars Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer. It was the only one of Soderbergh’s films […]

I am not, in general, a kung fu fighter. That’s not to say that I can’t get into the balletic precision and athletic exuberance that imbues top-notch martial arts movies. […]

One of the inconcievably vast number of brain-rapingly awful things about Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull was Steven Spielberg’s boring direction, evident in every boring frame […]

Here are all of the jokes in the first 52 minutes of the eighth American Pie film, American Reunion: Jim (Jason Biggs) is caught masturbating by small child Jim hurts […]

From his first proto-indie, art house feature (Sex, Lies, and Videotape) to his big budget Hollywood successes (Ocean’s Eleven) to his bizarre experimental stuff (Full Frontal), I’ve consistently queued up to see Steven […]

It’s hard not to like James Bond films—particularly if you are now or once were a teenage boy. James Bond has been, for 50 years, an icon of suave, seductive […]