In our continued effort to understand the American moviegoer’s psyche, we uncover a diamond of truth revealed to us this weekend during the Watchmen premiere. At the expense of throwing away originality, we love stories that we already know. Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the greatest graph...

You may wonder why any story we grab from UK’s The Sun is automatically taken with a shovel of salt over the right shoulder, but I’ve got a fairly reasonable explanation. The most obvious reason is that they are known rumor-mongers. The second most obvious reason is that whenever I go to...

“This year’s WonderCon sucks monkey nuts.” I attended WonderCon this past weekend here in San Francisco, and I’m obligated to write up some kind of recap.  This normally isn’t a problem… I’ve attended conventions before, including last year’s WonderC...

In an effort to understand what makes American film audiences tick, we begin our weekly study of truths in cinema. This week’s lesson? We love men who dress in drag. Tyler Perry’s two-week ascent to the top of the box office with Madea Goes to Jail may seem stunning at first glance. But ...

Right now I’m listening to the new album “Get Guilty” by A.C. Newman (pretty awesome), who also serves as the lead man for the band The New Pornographers (which also has a place as side project for other artists like Neko Case). This past weekend Hugh Jackman did a noble, yet lame,...

With the failing economy making headlines daily, one had to expect Michael Moore would eventually speak up. Word comes, via Anne Thompson’s blog, that he’s hard at work on a film about the crisis and wants you, disgruntled financial industry employees, to help him out. Here’s an ex...

Say what? On the surface, horror films and, more specifically slasher films, seem to be easy targets for critics and snobs alike to pick apart as the lowest common denominator. It’s not unusual for someone to compare slasher films to pornography - hell, there is even an entire subgenre that is...

The Editor’s Blog is your weekly look behind the curtain here at FSR, in which members of our editorial staff take you into the not-often-interesting world of movie blogging. Ever wonder what its like to be one of the cool kids? Well, we can’t help you with that. We can however, share a ...

Troy Duffy, Troy Duffy, Troy Duffy. To many of you, this three-syllable moniker has little or no meaning… but to a special few, the name Troy Duffy elicits the image of a portly fellow—someone who’d fit right in among our own legendary Fat Guys—with dirty overalls and one hell of an undeserv...

Over the past day or so, since the Academy Award nominations were announced, I’ve read nothing but contempt for the Academy and its voters. “The Dark Knight was robbed,” “Best Animated Feature is not good enough for Wall-E,” “Nothing for Gran Torino? Really?”...