"Avengers" director Joss Whedon is known for treating female characters on par with his male ones, but even the posters for that movie took pains to s...

Instead of stone-faced bodybuilders or martial arts experts, Die Hard had John McClane, an everyman New York cop with only street smarts and a sense of humor on his side who seemed as surprised as anyone to be an action hero.

Dan Yeager is another in the long line of Hollywood discovery stories. Another unknown to billboard icon. He's the new Leatherface -- the iconic centerpiece to a franchise with a central throne in the pantheon of horror.

In fall 2009, movie producer Nina Jacobson was faced with a classic Hollywood dilemma -- to pitch or not to pitch. Jacobson's colleague, Bryan Unke...

Families taking children to summer blockbuster after intergalactic war thriller would do well to end the evening with a conversation about the sacrifices incumbent in such fantastically bright explosions.

The costumed superheroes of 2010 comedy 'Kick-Ass' may soon be suiting up to .. kick ass again. Deadline.com reports that Universal Pictures, which di...

Film enthusiasts Duncan and Joel Robson have created a fantastic supercut of movie characters landing -- in the exact same position. The mashup shows ...

American action movies may be dead, at least according to the New York Times, but even the Paper of Record can't discount the impact of "Die Hard." ...

There's not a whole lot about the world of The Hunger Games that I'd like to see carried into the future. But it's truly refreshing to see a world where gender isn't a restrictive category.

Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh's new film, the spy thriller Haywire, excites with lots of great action sequences that overwhelm an often confusing storyline.

I just know many of you out there are scrambling to catch up on your holiday gift giving. This article's for you.

Nine years since he literally kicked down the door to stardom, Jason Statham remains pretty much where he started.

Nicolas Winding Refn's hard-boiled stripped-down crime thriller, Drive, thrums with such knockout style, it has already garnered the Best Director award at Cannes.

Sucker Punch had so much potential to be an empowering tour de force for its female viewers. So why did I come away feeling confused? And maybe a little dirty?

In Knight and Day, director James Mangold takes actors Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz back to that heyday of basic popcorn blockbuster fun.

Apocalypto is, if anything, a cross between Braveheart and The Passion, an uncompromisingly brutal movie shot entirely in a foreign language about one man who takes on an evil empire and wins.

It's tough to recommend a film built upon the promise of world-class stunt work and eye-popping action scenes if it fails to deliver on both counts.

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...