In an industry like Hollywood where once-famous actors and actresses are thrown upon the heap of public boredom; where today’s hotshot agent can’t get anyone on the phone tomorrow; where crafty and clever screenwriters, having failed to score multi-million dollar spec sales, are stacked on the bottom of a low-level development executive’s weekend read list; [...]

I had planned to write nothing on this site about next summer’s crapquel Transformers: Rise of the Bile. After all, my one-blog army that took on Michael Bay and the Geekformers in 2007 had surprisingly little impact on that movie’s box office results, so I had begun to think that the Allspark-like power of my [...]

I’m sort of amazed by the fact that a lot of movie sites are featuring this new trailer for the Angelina Jolie/James McAvoy actioner Wanted without offering comment on its many, seemingly directly influenced, The Matrix-like story elements. And when they do mention it, they often come across like the comparison is a positive thing. [...]

Now I don’t want to pick on the once-prolific comedy director too much; the dude hasn’t shot a watchable movie since 1993 so I’m not one to give him a kick. But I would like to take one of Reitman’s movies and illustrate what I think is a pretty unfortunate use of a soundtrack pop [...]

I’ve mentioned many, many times in these pages my great affection and affinity for the Indiana Jones character and all three movies created in the franchise. I truly believe that they represent among the best that cinema has to offer, and I hold them deeply in my heart because of what spectacular, precious gems they [...]

With Burbanked having just reached the tender age of two, you may start to notice something…well, that I feel I should warn you about. All this year, a particular topic, celebrity, rumor or other piece of movie news may set off my inner toddler, sending me into a particularly cranky mood. So when you see [...]