Patton Oswalt has always been one of my favorite comedians. Career-wise, his appearances on Reno 9/11 have shown he’s not afraid to make fun of himself, while his starring role in Pixar’s Ratatouille made him the envy of film nerds everywhere. In his stand-up, I love the way he is able t...

Hopefully, Peter’s recent post about actors and directors using social networking/blogging site Twitter opened up a whole new world for of information for you. If you’re a Twitter user, you can now keep track of the latest Repo: The Genetic Opera developments, read frustratingly cryptic ...

And now, for another exciting post of links and short comments: I’ve always been aware of having been gifted with a pretty powerful attention span. I have always kind of assumed it came from becoming a reader at a very young age, but I guess it’s equally plausible that things are actuall...

Heroes on the Dark Side The Smackdown. When it was first published in 1986, Alan Moore's graphic novel epic Watchmen helped redefine comics, pulling superheroes from the honey-sweet boy scout era into a complex world of vigilantism and corruption. Last year in film", "The Dark Knight" did something ...

  Hello film geeks, Scott here: This week promises to be our most intense episode of Film Geek Central yet, since we'll be adding an enticing new spin on things. THE FAN AND THE VIRGIN - WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!?     Well, it's out. And though we are separated by over a thousand miles, ...

  Hello film geeks, Scott here: This week promises to be our most intense episode of Film Geek Central yet, since we'll be adding an enticing new spin on things. THE FAN AND THE VIRGIN - WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!?     Well, it's out. And though we are separated by over a thousand miles, ...

Moviegoers are the Goldilocks of cinema, especially when it comes to book adaptations. We're ridiculously picky and always want it just right. If a filmmaker changes a bunch of plot points, we'll rant and rage and wonder why they even bothered. But on the flipside, if the project is too faithful, we...

Mary Harron is in London to present a retrospective of her work at the Birds Eye View Festival, which celebrates the work of women filmmakers. All three of her prior feature films are screening: I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, and The Notorious Betty Page; and Harron will this afternoon be givi...

[This review is spoiler free] Watchmen first appeared on my radar years ago when I’d heard that one of my favorite directors, Paul Greengrass, was slated to helm the big-screen adaptation. I’m not a huge comic book reader, but I’d heard so many complimentary things about the graphi...

Already pegged as the summer comedy you’ll most likely be driven to by a sober girl, we now have our first glimpse at The Hangover and it is funny to the power of holy shit. Any movie that places a toothless Ed Helms, snuggler Zach Galifianakis, face-tatted Mike Tyson, and vintage Phil Collins...