One cannot begin to encompass what is covered in Music Box‘s release of **“The Story of Film: An Odyssey”**without leaving many, many omissions on the table. It took seven years to produce and takes m
A film with five people credited as “Hopi Prophecy Consultants” would normally send me bolting to my panic room, but “Koyaanisqatsi” (1983) is my time-lapse crack and it provides such an immersive aud
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a button-pushing middle manager who resists a soul-crushing bureaucracy by escaping into literal flights of fantasy. Imagination is the only weapon he has against the all
**“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