While it isn’t the most perfect of comedies to come along in a great while, Bad Teacher is perfect in its gut-busting politically incorrect antics as one teacher robs, cheats, and swindles her way int...

There’s an underdog sense of determination that hounds this low-budget production about the true life adventures of Danny Greene. Writer-director Jonathan Hensleigh's mobster movie might telegraph a b...

Pixar’s revved-up sequel of their 2006 hit film, Cars , is indeed a triumphant overhaul of a film that usually gets dismissed as the least favorite of their titles. It’s a shiny endeavor that results...

Based on the novel by Richard Jessup, Norman Jewison’s The Cincinnati Kid is as razor-sharp as the four corners on a deck of cards. Rhythmic and dynamically succinct, Jewison allows the film to breath...

If anything can be said about Quentin Dupieux’s film, know that Rubber will have you identifying with a car tire and never tiring of the puns that tread in the wake of such a statement. It’s a film wh...

This is not the Green Lantern movie its fans have waited to see. Positioned in what is deemed as the “safe zone” between the surprisingly stellar X-Men: First Class and the anticipated release of Capt...

A movie about making movies always has a sort of bizarre allure to it and Richard Rush’s The Stunt Man , first appearing in 1980, is not a stranger to either quality. Praised and, in fact, buoyed by p...

George Lucas’s ode to the social phenomenon of cruisin’ is a remarkably candid affair. Often a victim of adlib and off-the-cuff antics and guffaws from its teenage cast, American Graffiti has a unique...

There has always been something special about Ridley Scott’s Legend . Too bad it never gets the recognition it deserves. Maybe, with a new coat of HD paint and a look into the Director’s Cut of the fi...

Super 8 is sci-fi fantasy fulfillment at its most complete. Like the finest of wine-accompanying meals, J.J. Abrams’ sleek homage to the feel and look of the classic films directed and/or produced Ste...

In 1970 the western genre received a much needed injection of honest viciousness in storytelling courtesy of director Elliot Silverstein and writer Jack De Witt. Their adaptation of a short story by D...

Director Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake , Kick-Ass ) has done it again. In what goes down as an epic battle between differing philosophies and alternate histories, Vaughn has delivered the perfect comic...

In Charlie Chaplin’s two-role classic, The Great Dictator , we get his final salute to the silent films of his youthful exploits and the first words ever spoken by The Tramp. It’s a haunting film; one...

The nostalgic themes and past perfect philosophy running through Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris are certainly familiar to his loyal devotees, but never before have they been presented so perfectly an...

The Wolf Pack is indeed back. Unfortunately, the originality of their first foray into super drunken and super funny territory does not return along with them. In what goes down as a note-for-note ret...