The latest brainchild of Superbad writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Pineapple Express fits comfortably into the canon of classic stoner-buddy comedies which revel in the misadventures and male comraderie associated with the illegal herb. Like previous entries such as Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, a summary of the plot reads like either a "what if" story thought up while stoned or one of those...

The Hellboy movie franchise, much like the comic series on which it is based, is an oddball among others of its type. At a time when most comic book films are produced on a budget of upwards of $150 million, the two entries have cost Universal only $145 million combined. And while comic book films released by rival companies have set box office records (Spider-Man 2 in 2004, The Dark Knight this year), the Hellboy films perform modestly. The first one, in...

By insisting that all plot details be shrouded in secrecy, I worried that 20th Century Fox and X-Files creator Chris Carter were merely providing a likely excuse for their decision not to offer advance press screenings of the new film, a usual sign of a studio’s lack of confidence in a product. If this had been their reasoning, it would have been unnecessary, as X-Files: I Want to Believe is not a bad film and is far better than others that have received press screenings in...

Much of the buzz, press, and reviews surrounding The Dark Knight seem to border on hyperbole, as do the laudatory cliches I am resisting hurling your way right now. If you find this film to be over-hyped, over-saturated, over-played and over-praised, then friend, this website is not for you. Because I am about to launch into what might be one of the most enthusiastic reviews of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight on the entire internets.

Nolan and his co-writer,...

This review is rather late in coming, so I feel it's fair to discuss the critical reception of Get Smart. Most reviewers have dismissed this film, basing much of their arguments on its dissimilarity with the old Don Adams TV show. (By the way, for you kids my age who didn't stay up for "Get Smart" on Nick at Nite, you'll remember Don Adams as the voice of Inspector Gadget.) And true, Get Smart the film lands somewhere between True Lies and Spy...

Meet Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy). He works in an unspecified capacity at an unspecified business in Chicago and is prone to anxiety attacks, frequently brought on by his abusive boss Janis. While Wesley toils away at the office, his girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend in their Wrigleyville apartment, right next to a bar I pass every day on the train (cool!) - or, as Wesley's nagging girlfriend points out, right next to where the train passes every day. Wesley is...

Will Smith, whose career I worried was in jeopardy between Wild Wild West (1999) and i, Robot (2004), returns with another $100+ million blockbuster in Hancock, a mere seven months after  the hit I Am Legend. Both are very good choices for the man who might just be our last true action hero (as the careers of Vin Diesel and The Rock continue to idle and superhero movies increasingly cast "real" actors); horror-actioners and superhero flicks...

The will to survive, to prove oneself and to have access to great powers distiguishing one from all others in an already competitive and saturated world differs in degree amongst people, or say, animals. Kung Fu Panda is one such tale of a panda who's willingness to prove himself worthy of acclaim won him Shifu's belief.

Kung Fu Panda is an ordinary story of a panda who is the son of a noodle restaurant owner. His father has a lot of dreams for him in the noodle business, but...

In the 29^th Century, 700 years after humans abandoned their polluted planet, the last sentient being on Earth is Wall-E, a trash compacting robot – unless you count his oddly intelligent cockroach friend. Wall-E continues to compact trash and pile it into towers which rise higher than the remains of the skyscrapers of the metropolis which he calls home. Over the last 700 years, with the aid of a video tape of Hello Dolly and a curiosity spurred by...

When Marvel Entertainment announced that it would begin producing its own films starting with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk and hired Louis Leterrier to helm the latter, the director stated that the difference between his Hulk film and the previous one was that his film “would be good.” That sarcastic remark notwithstanding, The Incredible Hulk offers a different if not markedly improved adaptation of the comic series.

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This review is a little late in coming and I know you all just want to get out and see the Sex and the City movie now (or, depending on when this is published, Hancock), but I had a lot to say about the newest Indiana Jones film which took a while to say, and then even longer to go through and edit out.

There are some movies we are raised on, which through repeat viewing from an early age we associate so closely with ourselves that they come to be part of...

Jason Reitman's Juno is the latest in a series of "indie" films whose independence I sincerely doubt. Fox Searchlight, supposedly 20th Century Fox's distribution wing for independent films, seems to have actually put money into the production of the film. It is a distinction which may seem trivial, but then again there's not much in the world of movie criticism which doesn't seem trivial under a closer inspection.

It is also a distinction...