Dinner for Schmucks is essentially a morality play with one simple moral: be tolerant of idiots. Ironically, the film itself is an exercise in that kind of tolerance…

The American, yet another movie about an American assassin in Europe, opens September 21st. A lean George Clooney stars in his first role as an action hero since Batman & Robin… Ouch. I just felt the air go out of the room…

If you still enjoy getting happy meals at McDonald’s (get them while you still can!), then you will probably enjoy The Sorcerer’s Apprentice…

Inception is a labyrinth, a mental puzzle about the puzzle of the mind. Puzzled? You will be, but if you pay close attention, you will escape the maze wholly satisfied in the experience, awed by the extraordinary things you have seen…

In other news, Sylvester Stallone is looking less like an action hero and more like an action figure every day. He has enough plastic in his face to melt down and build a tonka truck. The guy turned 64 years old last month, and yes, it is amazing that he still does his own stunts…

Film will be around, in some form (Smell-O-Vision anyone?), as long as humans continue to make art. People still paint after all, and we have been doing that for a while now…

This is the epiphany I experienced, that in the sci-fi genre, setting is king. The plot is a secondary vehicle to drive the audience through an imaginary universe. Insomuch as the setting is consistent, original, thought-provoking, and visually interesting, a science fiction film succeeds…

Tony Stark is dying. The nuclear battery he created to save his life in the first Iron Man is slowly killing him in Iron Man 2. Easy fix. In order to save his own life, he only has to synthesize a new element. Two years ago, director Jon Favreau faced a similar challenge…