Forget the Oscar race. Does it really matter if it's Leo or Brad or George or that silent, black-and-white Frenchman? All have already been comprehensively trounced by the return of the people's champion.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, the title urges, but you know they're lying. There are things hiding in the dark, little things, nasty things, things that want nothing better than to drag you down.
Guillermo del Toro says that, as a kid, he harbored great affection for the TV-movie version of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, enough so that he and his...
With Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Guillermo del Toro finally got the chance to make the movie he loved as a child -- or, rather, the movie he thought he loved.
Based on a 1973 TV movie of the same name, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a horror movie that rarely insults your intelligence. Indeed, it seduces you into thinking you can outsmart the film -- and then zaps you when you least expect it. Now that's fun.
The shunting aside of the Kennedy miniseries by the History Channel shows the supremacy of the Eastern establishment over the celebrity mosh pit that has become America.
I hadn't been watching the news lately. When I did tune in recently, though, I see that I have been missing some really important issues being discussed.
The connection between food and passion finds its way into all kinds of movies: Robert Morley, George Segal, and Jacqueline Bisset starred in 1978's ...
In a world that's full of celebrity stylists and fashion designers, Jeanne Yang is the real deal.
Kevin Kline is the "extra man" in this film, a distinguished gentleman who squires around lonely, older women. Paul Dano is the young playwright Kline...
September means a lot of things to a lot of people -- the beginning of fall, back to school, football season. For me, it's time to take stock of my shoe wardrobe.
As a 22 year-old cub reporter for a music magazine, I freaked when my boss assigned me to interview "'The Strawberries,' a very important group," whic...
The Romantics has its minor pleasures. But they are too few and far between to warrant sitting through the entire film.
Adapted from the very funny Michael Chabon novel, Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys is a marvel of a film, a sharp and wise valentine to academia and the literary life.
We're such a celebrity-obsessed culture, but what we fail to learn in all this curiosity about these celebrities are the messages their stories have for us and how their stories relate to our everyday lives.
I often find myself reflecting on shows that were cult hits in the 90s, like The X-Files, and wish I could go back in time, give all those diehard fans Twitter, and see what would happened.