The contrasts between the two movies fighting for box office supremacy in China are obvious. Each is linked to the return to prominence of someone who, not long ago, seemed washed up.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 02.09.2010 | Entertainment
Dear John dethroned Avatar at the top of the box office over Super Bowl weekend. Wow... a film's opening weekend managed to exceed another film's eighth weekend.
Jewish Journal | Danielle Berrin | Posted 02.05.2010 | Entertainment
Before it was released, "Inglourious Basterds" generated an uncommon amount of buzz for its daring as a Jewish revenge fantasy. Now, nearly six months...
Dan Persons | Posted 02.05.2010 | Entertainment
In the new movie Frozen, a group of fun-loving snowboarders -- played by Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, and Kevin Zegers -- get stuck on a chair lift. As t...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 02.04.2010 | Technology
Check out this awesome trailer for "A.D.," a computer animated movie about zombies set in what looks like a post-apocalyptic world. Well, it's not a ...
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 02.08.2010 | World
Hitting US theaters today is Ajami, Israel's contender at this year's Academy Awards, which has also been garnering praise at Cannes and other interna...
Robert Rosenthal | Posted 02.02.2010 | Entertainment
Still Bill is an extraordinary film about Bill Withers, who was born to a black family in W. Virginia, stuttered until he was 28, made toilets for a living, and then wrote Ain't No Sunshine, Lean on Me and Use Me.
Richard Sine | Posted 02.02.2010 | Living
As you endure the toughest parts of parenthood -- the anguished days and sleepless nights -- perhaps your mind turns to the trials of Anna Karenina or Hester Prynne. Me? I think about horror flicks.
Alex Remington | Posted 02.02.2010 | Entertainment
American cartoonist Nina Paley has one of the hottest indie movies around, Sita Sings the Blues (rating: 86), her animated retelling of the classic Hi...
Marc Ruxin | Posted 02.02.2010 | Entertainment
Two of the scariest movies of the years had nothing to do with alien prawns or paranormal activity but were obviously one-sided explorations of how we humans treat animals (or mammals).
Michael Conniff | Posted 02.01.2010 | Media
In the rush to slobber over one's self, the real point of the iPad was missed. At the end of the day, the iPad will be seen as the first device that collected all the media together in one truly portable place.
Lara M. Gardner | Posted 02.02.2010 | Entertainment
There were so many brilliant films this year, I'm frustrated that a film whose only merit is visual is sweeping the awards yet again. If Avatar had been set on earth, I doubt it would've climbed out of B-movie-land.
Spencer Green | Posted 01.31.2010 | Comedy
White Women Sure Like Helping Black People Triumph Over Adversity, Huh?
Alex Remington | Posted 01.31.2010 | Entertainment
The Secret of NIMH, released in 1982, has an extremely assured visual design, with Disney-esque character designs for all the woodland creatures, cute good guys and scary-looking bad guys.
Peter Bosshard | Posted 02.02.2010 | Green
March 30, 2164. - I have spent a lot of time on Pandora lately. I have explored its verdant valleys, lush rain forests, and floating mountains. I have...
Alex Remington | Posted 01.29.2010 | Entertainment
John Carpenter just might be the best filmmaker of the 1980s. With 1976's Assault on Precinct 13 (rating: 85), and 1978's Halloween, Carpenter began a...
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 01.29.2010 | Living
Movies aren't just entertaining. Every now and then a good flick can teach you something important and transform your feelings and actions.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 01.26.2010 | Technology
Jaron Pitts, the man behind the amazing fan trailer for "The Green Lantern," is back again, this time creating a fake trailer for a live action remak...
Alex Remington | Posted 01.25.2010 | Entertainment
Cartoonist Nina Paley has a distinctive style in her strips, whether she's drawing couples or cats: round, expressive faces with easy, honest smiles a...
Alex Remington | Posted 01.25.2010 | Entertainment
The Book of Eli is sunk by its ambition: it's a genre movie with religious pretensions, but it loses its way in the murky waters of religion.
Bettina Korek | Posted 01.22.2010 | Los Angeles
In her new exhibition, Between Science and Magic, Diana Thater revives the mythology of Hollywood filmmaking and the notion of "movie magic."
Alex Remington | Posted 01.22.2010 | Entertainment
I criticized the Korean monster flick The Host as a movie that understood its genre but didn't add much of its own. The same can be said of Howard Mc...
Brad Schreiber | Posted 01.20.2010 | Entertainment
This year's festival brought forth some lesser known and worthy foreign films as well some exceptional American documentaries.
Sam Wasson | Posted 01.20.2010 | Entertainment
Avatar looks like it will completely change Hollywood. Now that it has swept the Golden Globes, I've begun to worry less about the extinction of the Na'vi, and more about the extinction of us.
Ami Horowitz | Posted 01.21.2010 | Entertainment
When Raul Niño Zambrano from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam asked if we would screen our film U.N. Me in competition, I was unsure how to receive the news.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 02.08.2010 | World