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'Life Itself' Review: Documentary Shows Roger Ebert As An Intelligent, Cinema-Loving Journalist

After 46 years of “thumbs-up” or “-down” to every crumb, slab or sliver of cinematic art, it seems only fitting…

10 years ago

Oliver Stone's 'Savages' Makes Drug War Ironically Enjoyable

“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected," wrote the late great critic Paul Fussell in The…

12 years ago

'Magic Mike' Is More Soderbergh Than Lap Dance

Many who go to see Magic Mike, the long-awaited "Channing Tatum stripper movie," will be disappointed. While the film serves…

12 years ago

True Blood – Season Five

The phrase "guilty pleasure" is probably overused, and in the world of television, it can be loosely applied to nearly…

12 years ago

Snow White And The Huntsman

In Snow White and the Huntsman, Charlize Theron plays an achingly beautiful queen, and Kristen Stewart plays Jesus. Actually, Stewart…

12 years ago

What To Expect When You're Expecting

Director Kirk Jones’ hilarious and often tender What To Expect When You're Expecting, based on Heidi Murkoff’s authoritative “pregnancy bible”…

12 years ago

Hysteria

In director Tanya Wexler's cleverly disarming comedy Hysteria, British actor Hugh Dancy plays Dr. Mortimer Granville, the Victorian physician credited…

12 years ago

The Lucky One

The Lucky One is a clever name for a piece of cinematic detritus so foul that it embarrasses the earlier…

13 years ago

The Cabin In The Woods

The Cabin in the Woods is not a scary movie; it's a thousand scary movies (at least), all rolled into…

13 years ago

Bully

Bully, a documentary by director Lee Hirsch, is set exclusively in rural America — in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, Mississippi and…

13 years ago

Titanic 3D

Fifteen years after Titanic sailed into the hearts of moviegoers, love for James Cameron's epic film about the ill-fated ship…

13 years ago

Mirror Mirror

We didn't need another Snow White story, especially not this year. But director Tarsem Singh is nothing if not gratuitous,…

13 years ago

RuPaul's Drag Race: Who The Top 3 Should Be

With Monday's shocking — and still baffling — departure of "rule breaker" Willam Belli, RuPaul's Drag Race saved itself from…

13 years ago

John Carter

Where did Disney go wrong with John Carter? By now, that seems like the only question worth asking, given the…

13 years ago

Hello, Star Jones — And Goodbye

New-York-City-prosecutor-turned-talk-show-host-turned-weight-loss-activist Star Jones made a momentous return to The View on Wednesday after a six-year absence. Warmly welcomed back by…

13 years ago

RuPaul's Drag Race: The Next Sesame Street?

Parents, take note. If you put your preschool-aged children in front of the tube to watch wholesome, educational TV shows…

13 years ago

Whitney Houston A Judge On 'The X Factor'? Yes, Please.

Sheryl Lee Ralph brought up an interesting point on HLN's Showbiz Tonight. The door to a full-on Whitney Houston comeback…

13 years ago

A Better Life

Among the surprise nominees for this year's Academy Awards is Mexican actor Demian Bichir, a man who has had a…

13 years ago

In Defense Of Rihanna's 'Thug Life' Tattoo

Oh, it's so easy to judge poor, misguided Rihanna for tattooing the Tupac Shakur slogan "Thug Life" across her knuckles.…

13 years ago

What This Year's Best Picture Contenders Can Learn From 'Joyful Noise'

A recent article in The Atlantic Monthly justifiably called the month of January "the dumping ground" of the movie industry,…

13 years ago