In Theaters and Digital

Forming the central theme of The Words is the idea of success and the question of what price we’re willing to pay to achieve it. What if our biggest dreams far exceed our level of individual talent? In today’s look-at-me world of fame-grubbing reality shows and ...

Three horror films released in three weeks.  Is this a blatant sign of the devil at work or just a sneak attack from a dybbuk?  Neither.  Hollywood knows exactly what time of the year it is.  While The Awakening had its moments and the dangerously dim-witted ...

One of the biggest joys of writing about film comes from the occasional love affair with an independently-produced little gem that thrives on a pressed shooting schedule and reduced budget while still managing to find creatively-conceived ways to entertain without ...

Don’t look now, but the Step Up franchise has reached a level of success few others have. Mark Speer’s Step Up Revolution marks the fourth episode in the sizzling dance and romance series; a feat matched only by such memorable franchises as Pirates of the Caribbean ...

With Neil Young Journeys, the third film in the Jonathan Demme/Neil Young documentary trilogy, Demme hoped to create an intimate portrait that looks deep into the heart and soul of the artist. And what better vantage point than one coming from a tiny ...

There’s a brilliant aura lighting up the Cineplex right now. It has nothing to do with lycra-tighted superheroes, talking stuffed animals, or animated shenanigans, and more to do with a place where the moon has been sweating in a cry filled with footsteps and ...

There are few directors who can entertain me - a solidly heterosexual male - with a film about male strippers with impossible abs, toothy grins, and buns of steel.  Wait.  Now that I think about it, there’s only one. His name is Steven Soderbergh ...

In case of a fire, what would you grab on the way out the door? In the face of the world’s total annihilation, would you significantly change anything about your life?  These age-old questions form the themes in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, which ...

About two years ago I read Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and was immediately struck by its power and purpose in having a little fun with a historical figure, the mythology surrounding him, and giving a new interpretation on why the Civil War was ...

Ever wonder what becomes of the young schoolboys who end up in those real-life teacher/student forbidden relationships that seem to be happening with ever-increasing frequency these days?  Adam Sandler’s new film, That’s My Boy builds its plot around ...