Yeah, yeah: Boyle's jumped-up survival story -- the tale that launched a thousand terrible "rock and a hard place" puns -- got a Best Picture nomination. But so have any number of glib technical exercises, a...
The 1980s was a largely fallow period for Disney animation, but the studio closed out the decade in high style with "The Little Mermaid." It boasted an irresistible recipe which mixed a classic fairy tale (a...
Pro: Arkin's been around the block. His first nomination came 45 years ago and in 2007 the goodwill finally came in the form of an Oscar win (for "Little Miss Sunshine"). He's a highlight in the movie for hi...
While "666 Park Avenue" may not deserve a place among the "best" of the new season based on quality and nuance, it definitely belongs here for its enthusiastic and slavishly [and effectively] deriv...
Lately Cronenberg's most loyal onscreen collaborator (though he skipped “Cosmopolis”), Mortensen remains the only one of his actors ever to secure a leading Oscar nod. When you consider the deliciously sur...
In this week's installment of 10 stories you might have missed: "Kick-Ass'" breakout heroine Hit-Girl goes solo in a new comic book series, Johnny Depp's "Thin Man" is paused at Warner Bros., Justi...
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The foul-mouthed, pint-sized heroine was the breakout hit of the cult comic series "Kick-Ass" and its 2010 film adaptation, and she's finally getting her own comic title to star i...
The Robert Zemeckis-directed follow-up to the 1985 time-travel hit features some disturbing consequences stemming from the revision of the past. In 1955, franchise villain Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) is shown the f...
Young America ruled at Cannes in 1989, with the 26 year-old Steven Soderbergh deservedly taking the Palme d'Or for his slinky debut feature "sex, lies and videotape," while James Spader and Meryl Streep took...
With "The Avengers" hitting theaters imminently and "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "The Dark Knight Rises" still to come, we look at the top portrayals of film's comic book subgenre. Note t...
