A wise man once said “It’s not just about seeing Star Wars two weeks before everyone else. You’ve gotta plow through crap like Marie Antoinette and Catwoman as well.� I have the fortune of being able to see all of the films that I want, and find out that they are only worth one viewing (or l...

Milk Sean Penn won an Academy Award for his portrayal of openly gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, and Dustin Lance Black won another for his script, which focused on Milk's activist years in the 1970s. "It's a minor miracle of sheer film making joy and determination," wrote James Rocchi, "an...

This Week in DVD is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. Please don’t take the commentary on the movies and TV shows too seriously, as they’re meant not to be reviews but rath...

"It would be like me going to ['No Country for Old Men' author] Cormac McCarthy and going, 'I have an idea for a [sequel]: You write a book, and I'll write a movie, and you can release it. You'll win a Pulitzer; I'll win an Oscar. It'll be awesome. The attitude toward comic books, they show their ha...

The Academy Awards for 2008 have been handed out, and the “popular kids� have Oscars on their mantles, but the dirty little secret about winning awards is that you’ve gotta campaign for them. Thousands of dollars were spent by the distributors and filmmakers behind Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Sea...

Getting close to wrapping the FB Awards now. Or closer at any rate. The Hero & Villain categories were easier than usual and you can click on over for thoughts on characters from films such as Iron Man, Milk, Happy-Go-Lucky, Entres Les Murs, WALL•E and more. The inclusion of Let the Right One ...

Compared to the cinematic juggernaut that was 2007, 2008 was a pretty disappointing year for American cinema. Sure, there were the astounding mainstream achievements of The Dark Knight and Wall-E, both of which had a great deal more to say about our cultural moment than any indie or art film cared t...

As if the Oscar-season couldn’t get anymore exciting, we got a hold of some reactions from the people who actually got nominated and most of them read like people running for political office. I imagine these will get reprinted onto 3 x 5 notecards and placed in jacket pockets and clutches for...

Trivia Time! It's been 180 years since an Act of the British Parliament allowed for the building of mental asylums. The first ever built was the 1st Middlesex County Asylum in West London which opened its doors in 1831. The British invented insane asylums! Who knew? And yet it all makes sense... 177...

Credit Where It’s Due: The Golden Globes are not (entirely) Irrelevant It is often very easy to discredit the Golden Globes for being one thing or another, or for not being one thing or another. It is not that these are all false: the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are not cinematic or te...