1. Steve Carell, leading man, is a lot funnier when he's not trying to be funny. He tends to work better in…
1. Spring Breakers is trashy: I'm not telling you something you don't know here. It's self-consciously trashy, but…
1. The notion of doing a prequel to The Wizard of Oz focused on Oz himself isn't an inherently terrible idea. The…
1. It's sort of amazing how low the bar has fallen for big tentpole action/fantasy films. With the rise of 3-D (and,…

The only thing we know for certain about next year's Oscars is that: a) Seth MacFarlane won't be hosting them, and…
Yesterday, to help you out with your pool, Grierson made predictions in all the technical Oscar categories. Today,…

As far as action movie franchises go, the Die Hard films hold up pretty damned well. The first one is obviously a…
We've never quite understood the appeal of going to movies for Valentine's Day. Movie-watching is, after all, a…
"I was watching one of those iconoclast shows on the Sundance Channel. Jamie Oliver said Paul Smith had told him…
It always struck me as so strange that Oliver Stone, when he was making his name with Platoon and Wall Street, saw…
Of all the boogie monsters and creepy creatures in our public consciousness, the zombie is the most metaphorical by…

Tomorrow, the film Movie 43 opens, and if its stars have their way, you'll never know a thing about it. As amusingly…
The Oscar nominations just came out, announced by Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone. There were surprises and oddities…
Thursday morning, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will get up about seven hours earlier than they usually do to…
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up:…
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up:…
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up:…
It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up:…
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