It is a dark and stormy night. Rain pelts the pitch black trailer park. A leashed pit bull barks as the stranger approaches. He beats on the trailer door. The woman who opens the door is naked... full frontal. It's his step-mother.

In a summer of movies made of bombastic special effects and obvious action, Killer Joe still has the ability to surprise by keeping it down and dirty -- though you'll need a strong stomach to make it to the end.

We Bought a Zoo will leave you feeling as though you, too, need a new adventure. Maybe not a zoo, but a risk.

Given the size of the Toronto Film Festival and the goals I have when I'm here (primarily to see movies that will be released so I can bank reviews fo...

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Emma Stone is a bright young actress who knows her way around a one-liner. But the flimsy writing here barely evokes giggles, let alone actual laughs.

With his movie finally in theaters, writer-director Jake Goldberger can look back at the struggle to make his film, Don McKay, and laugh - a little. ...

Thomas Haden Church is one of those under-utilized treasures of cinema who only recently has started to get the kinds of roles he deserves.

Imagine That is a movie with surprising emotional intelligence. But aside from the illogic of its plot, it also seems to miss the mark in terms of who it thinks its audience will be.

In a video for Funny or Die, actor Thomas Haden Church plays fellow cultural icon Joe Six Pack in a drunken challenge to Joe the Plumber, with shirt ...