“I’ve got some poetry about regret I’d like to share…” “Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” begins with seat calibration and a parody of production company logos, and ends with several beheadings. In between there are numerous awkward freeze-frames, silly and/or unsettling montages, exaggerated and unpleasant character outlines (none are particularly fleshed out, though this [...]

Director Rodrigo Garcia has had a lengthy, and well respected, career in TV writing and directing. Shows like “Six Feet Under” and “In Treatment” flourished under his watch. They approached topics like family and love from a somber, yet relatable place, rewarding the most patient of viewers with a nugget of heart-wrenching goodness. He understands [...]

Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), an ex-cop who claims that he was wrongly convicted of stealing a 40 million dollar diamond from wealthy developer David Englander (a menacing Ed Harris), escapes from prison and makes his way to New York City. After arriving in The Big Apple, Cassidy checks into the Roosevelt Hotel, where he climbs [...]

Despite the fact that the “man versus wild” concept has been done over and over, “The Grey” successfully keeps audience’s attention by offering afrightening take on the familiar premise. Liam Neeson stars as Ottway, a man with a vague and sad past that works alongside dozens of roughneck oilmen at a remote refinery in Alaska. [...]

It’s been a few years since Kiefer Sutherland said goodbye to “24″ and one of the most famous television roles in history. Now that he’s back on TV with the new Fox show “Touch”, it’s only natural that he’s compared to Jack Bauer. It’s the double-edged sword of portraying a massively iconic character. Everything that [...]

Director Steven Soderbergh is arguably one of the more well-respected yet disappointing directors working in Hollywood. He’s not quite at M. Night Shyamalan levels of career crushing hype, but he does have a tendency to start with some really great ideas only to wrap up his films so quickly that it’s not until hours later [...]

“Red Tails” has long been a passion project for the film’s producer George Lucas, who first began planning the film over 20 years ago. It finally arrives in theaters in 2012 and the result is unfortunately not what you’d expect given the incredibly long development.Inspired by true events in World War II, “Red Tails” tells [...]

“So many people enter and leave your life, hundreds of thousands of people. You have to keep the door open so they can come in, but it also means you have to let them go.” – Johnathan Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” tells the story of an 11-year-old [...]

The island of Alcatraz, which sits only 1.5 miles from San Francisco, already has a certain allure to it. The romanticized idea that not one prisoner ever escaped from the prison, whether it was true or not, along with the infamous inmates that once were imprisoned there, make it an almost mythical-like place. It just [...]

No, this is not a movie about dragons; it might have been cooler if it was. “There Be Dragons,” which is now available for your viewing at home, is one of the most tedious film experiences I’ve had; it was hard to even finish the film. It’s a nice history lesson for those who have [...]