Features
Tuesday, September 9 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008
From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.
Columns
Monday, March 14 2011
'I Am Number Four': Vampires, Aliens and the Art of Movie Recycling
I Am Number Four, a PG-13 science-fiction-slash-teen-romance movie, is so faithful to the Twilight template that it could have been assembled by marketing software.
Reviews
Friday, February 18 2011
'I Am Number Four' Is 'Twilight'-Lite
As the villains turn to dust when she kills them, Number Six might bring to mind Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Wednesday, January 14 2009
Eagle Eye
This might pretend to criticize our increasing reliance on technology, but it’s really just the setting for a big dumb movie.
Thursday, August 16 2007
Disturbia
Similar to the way Blade Runner effortlessly channels the archetypes of noir inside the wholly original world of a futuristic LA.
Friday, April 13 2007
Disturbia (2007)
For all its revisiting of Rear Window's basic themes, however, Disturbia is most effective when it points to the differences between then and now.
Blogs
Monday, May 23 2011
I Am 'Number' Bored: 'I Am Number Four' (Blu-ray)
Once again, we are stuck with another Potter placeholder, a title trying for a Rowling's level of replay value without the boy wizard's ease of entertainment.
Sunday, September 28 2008
IMAX makes this 'Eagle' Soar
Beware of Big Brother…blah, blah, blah. You can't pick up a publication nowadays, or listen to any number of broadcast pundits, and not hear about…
News
Thursday, October 2 2008
The Movie Masochist: This movie thinks you're dumb
The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of political thrillers. In these movies the people who ran the U.S. government were every bit as shady…
Monday, April 16 2007
'Disturbia' star Shia LaBeouf was destined for an acting career
"When you look into his eyes, you can see an old soul," said "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso.
