As bad Nicolas Cage movies go, and, yes, that has regrettably become a sub-genre, Season of the Witch is at the top of the heap. To be sure, this is faint praise when set aside the actor’s Bangk]]> Based on the children’s book by John Nickle, The Ant Bully tells the story of a young boy who’s forced to live among the ants he once terrorized and taking the first steps toward maturity ]]> Either I had a mini stroke while watching Justin Lin’s Fast Five or the films in this lucrative series for gearheads are getting better and better. I’ll be damned if I don’t think it]]> It isn’t as if writer/director James L. Brooks hasn’t been doing anything since his last feature film in 2004 (the underwhelming Spanglish). He’s been watching over the continued dev]]> Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and first-time screenwriter Michael C. Martin pull off an interesting feat with their gripping film Brooklyn’s Finest. They take tired cop film conventions ]]> Untitled Document Fans of television’s Sex and the City will be pleasantly surprised by the big-screen continuation of the hit HBO series. Writer]]> Untitled Document One of the things that made Ocean’s Eleven such fun was the feeling that director Stephen Soderbergh was raising the velvet rope and allowing us to hang o]]> A steady buzz has been building around Don’t be Afraid of the Dark, the latest creature feature from the mind of Guillermo del Toro, whose overrated Pan’s Labyrinth put him on the map as f]]> Director Baz Luhrmann is one of the more polemic filmmakers working today. While many praise his modern take on the Bard with his Romeo Juliet (1996) and his radical musical Moulin Rouge (2001), oth]]> The first surprise of the 2013 film year, Harmony Korine’s 2012 Spring Breakers is a bold look at today’s younger generation, portraying them as a group who has no firm connection with rea]]> Sporting much the same vibe that made The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel a surprise hit and even featuring one of the stars of that sleeper, Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, Quartet is a pleasant]]> There’s plenty of blame and shame to go around in Lee Hirsch’s Bully, a flawed yet compelling documentary that puts our nation’s bullying epidemic under the microscope. Shot in 2010,]]> Director Juan Antonio Bayona puts us through the wringer with The Impossible, a harrowing film recounting one family’s improbable survival of the 2004 tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean. ]]> Epic vision of The Hobbit hobbled by tepid paceDirector Peter Jackson returns to take care of unfinished business with his adaptation of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to the filmmaker&rsq]]> While I appreciate Tyler Perry’s desire to branch out from his “Medea” films, which have put him on the map as far as the movie community is concerned, I couldn’t imagine a wor]]> While Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders’ The Croods shows you can teach an old caveman new tricks, it also drives home the point that some things never change, namely that teenagers will rebel and ]]> I’m convinced that Isla Fisher will be a major star one day. Beautiful, talented and altogether charming, the actress made an impression in Wedding Crashers, The Lookout and Definite]]> Casting means everything when you're recycling material for movies and the makers of the delightful but familiar Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist must have known this when looking fo]]>