“What happens when a man who hates killing finds himself in a situation that demands lethal force—indeed, in which killing becomes a...

Occasionally, I like the memory of a movie better than the movie itself. The first twenty to thirty minutes of Kaneto Shindo’s The Naked...

“Bruce. Why do we fall down?” Bruce Wayne spends the majority of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Saga flat on his back. After his...

As is the case with any work of art (popular or otherwise), the latest episode of the Star Wars saga rewards subsequent viewings....

The oppressive sun beats down on the shifting sand dunes and salt-caked valleys of planet Jakku. Our heroine, Rey, her face obscured by...

How’d I miss the news that these beauties had dropped? I stumbled across them while browsing the shelves at Midtown Comics to kill time...

Earlier today, IGN debuted a teaser poster for the upcoming theatrical film based on the Slender Man mythos. And honestly, judging it on...

So let me tell you about my day so far. Before I went to bed last night (by which I mean around 1:30 AM), I perused the MoviePass app to...

As I type this, it is sixteen degrees Fahrenheit outside (an improvement over the past few days, but a long way from the warm weather I...

One song can save the world. At least, that’s the thesis statement of Yoshihiro Nakamura’s Fish Story, a film in which an obscure punk...

“All these years, I thought you were Wendigo. But you’re just another white man.” That single line of dialogue, spoken by Johnny Depp’s...

Last night, Jean Dujardin took home the Best Actor Oscar for his work as George Valentin in The Artist—an almost entirely silent role....

In any good story, the protagonist must face and overcome a number of challenges: his fellow man, society, even the darkness within. But...

“Why not just stay dead?” As I sat through my second viewing of Skyfall earlier this afternoon, that single line of dialogue leaped off...

I knew that The Avengers would inevitably change how both the moviegoing public and Big Executives perceived the superhero sub-genre; no...

When Nazi propagandist Fritz Hippler wrote his article “Film as a Weapon,” he was referring not to the medium’s capacity to destroy, but...

“Let them up!” With the echo of those words across the towering, sun-bleached rocks, the great lift clatters and groans to life,...

We all know the popular archetypes. The jock. The stoner. The virgin. Maybe a wheelchair-bound youth for some extra variety/pathos. Like...