The winter blues at the movies continue this week, as The three particularly grim-looking new wide releases enter the marketplace. Meanwhile, a notoriously troubled Western finally sees the light of day. The most successful new film will surely be Kung Fu Panda 3, the mega-budget animated sequel from DreamWorks Animation. ...

It’s here! It’s here! After a long summer where good movies were awfully hard to come by most of the time, the fall movie season finally begins this weekend, as audiences get their first look at some of this year’s prestige films. First up is the long-awaited Black Mass, from ...

When a movie star decides to try his or her hand at directing, the results are not always a rousing success. For every Ben Affleck or Clint Eastwood or Robert Redford or Sarah Polley, there’s a Jason Bateman (whose Bad Words last year was terrible) or Ryan Gosling (this spring’s ...

As the glut of summer sequels begin screening this month, a sense of dread inevitably falls upon the high-minded adult filmgoer. Not to say that an Iron Man or a Star Trek or a Hangover doesn’t have its pleasures, but these films do serve as a reminder that we’re in ...