**“The Simpsons”**became the longest running scripted primetime TV series in 2009, and before that it set records for being the longest running American sitcom and longest running animated TV series.
There are seven not-so-magnificent reasons why I wanted to give “Ice Age: Continental Drift” a lousy rating:The plot is right out of Saturday morning cartoons. The screenwriters just HAD t
As awards season consumes December and my fellow critics pretend they just hate hate hate composing “best of” lists as they eagerly share those hated “best of” lists, I find myself returning again and
I don’t have to tell gamers that “Halo 4: Forward unto Dawn” is based on the “Halo” video game series that began in November 2001—a series so popular that it helped establish and solidify Xbox’s p
Andre Waters was a beast. Some of my fondest memories watching football as a teenager involve “Dirty Waters” administering brutal hits to receivers who had heard the stories, but couldn't believe the
Although**“Heavyweights”**is a 1995 film, it’s a throwback to the early Disney live-action films that coasted on their premises and were content to provide lightweight entertainment and nothing more.
There’s a joyous scene in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” in which the bayou residents of an isolated Louisiana community nicknamed “The Bathtub”—so named because they live on the other side of a po
Lena Dunham’s first full length feature was an indie film called “Tiny Furniture. " She served as director, writer and the main character. It was successfully received by critics and garnered her some
“The following is my explanation.” In retrospect, it's difficult not to think of the first spoken line of Christopher Nolan's first feature film as a promise of everything that was to come, or perhap
Here’s one for the trivia games: What movie did Warren Beatty make after he and Dustin Hoffman stunk up the theaters with “Ishtar,” Elaine May’s contemporized version of the old Crosby-Hope “road” pic
From his break-through documentary “The Civil War” to this, his latest work for PBS, filmmaker Ken Burns has shown an unrivaled gift for finding the telling human detail in larger events of history. W
A beautiful, blonde woman is taking a shower in a movie shown in a theater. The theater audience calmly watches her. Screechy music begins to play. A man stands outside the theater doors, listening to