The Princess and the Frog

December 28, 2009

Disney seeks to right a social wrong by adding an African-American princess to its hallowed galley of snow white maidens. …

Re:Viewing the First Decade of the New Millennium

December 23, 2009

During the annual year-end celebrations and sentimental retrospectives, 2009 affords us the occasion to review more than just the milestones …

December 22, 2009

Bromance is alive and well in Guy Ritchie’s rather popular adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective Sherlock Holmes. …

December 22, 2009

Contemporary sensibilities mire any attempt to translate a stage musical into a feature film. Beyond the logistics of opening up …

December 16, 2009

The end of the world on film comes — some would say expertly tailored — in many respects to particular …

December 9, 2009

Is Morgan Freeman the greatest American actor? Venerable New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael posed this question back in April …

December 8, 2009

In terms of being a throwaway action-oriented programmer, Armored settles into a B-movie groove quite nicely. The barely topical story …

December 2, 2009

Producers Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers prop up the latest offering from Matrix second-unit director James McTeigue (V For …