Even if you know a lot about cults, there's a mystery at the heart of cult psychology that is singular in its creepiness. And that's…
Romantic comedies, it has often been said, end just as the truly interesting drama of love at least in real life is beginning.…
If you've been curious about James Franco's career as a grad student, you now have the chance to see his 2011 New York University master's…
Jason Statham, with his beady-eyed, I'll-die-harder-than-Bruce-Willis magnetism, has spent his career walking the line between being an accomplished A-list actor and a pitiless B-movie ruffian.…
The Lucky One marks the latest attempt to turn Zac Efron into a major dreamboat movie star, and more than ever, he looks the part.…
When people think of the Three Stooges the poked eyeballs, smashed noggins, and yanked nostrils; the boink! plonk! and clang! sound effects; the snarling…
If anything can make you long for the hang-loose 1970s, it's the prospect of looking for love in an era when dating is governed by…
Though I own a few of his albums and have seen countless clips of him over the decades, I've always felt that I didn't know…
Diane Keaton, with her trademark nervous giggle-fit overacting, plays Beth, who deeply resents her surgeon husband. The strange thing is, his only crime appears to…
James Cameron's Titanic is one of the most successful movies of all time, and I have no problem saying that it's also one of the...
James Cameron, in Avatar , is the one American filmmaker at least to my eyes who has truly knocked the 3-D ball out…
Back in 1999, American Pie was a pretty funny comedy of horny youth anxiety. But it was also a sweet slice of teenage B-movie nostalgia…
When I heard Morgan Spurlock had made a documentary called Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope , I figured I knew what to expect: the…
Everything is on fire in Wrath of the Titans . Sam Worthington, as the mighty Perseus (otherwise known as the dude who slayed the Kraken),…
Harvey Weinstein never met a ratings controversy that he couldn't massage into a publicity campaign. He did it in the '90s, when he turned up…
The German artist Gerhard Richter creates explosive psychedelic canvases in dense improvised layers. He's like a slow-motion action painter, using a giant homemade squeegee to…
Seann William Scott has spent his career projecting a certain goofy dumb puppy-dog sweetness. That persona has become a bit of a trap for him,…
What's the greatest sushi restaurant in the world? According to many in Japan (not to mention the Michelin Guide), it's a modest little hole-in-the-wall sushi…
In Abel Ferrara's unsensational, almost intentionally humdrum countdown to the end of the world (the last vestiges of the ozone layer are set to evaporate…
Imagine that you're a child of thrill-kill videogames and other forms of pop culture gruesomeness, and you sit down to watch a classic kung fu…