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On a desolate plain somewhere in the American west, there's a cabin--a waystation, really--where a group of travelers have gathered to w...

Remakes are a tricky business. If you adhere too closely to the original film, you lose a lot of the juice that ran through it (plus, people...

The wind blows. The snow drifts. Walking becomes an increasingly difficult chore. A typical winter day in Chicago? Sure. But also the cond...

In the tiny mining village of Valentine Bluffs, they haven’t held a dance on February 14 in years—not since the cave-in that killed a bunch ...

I have never felt the desire to go on a pub crawl. Walk into a pub and crawl out later? Sure. Done that. Do a bit of impromptu bar-hoppi...

From the earliest days of the narrative motion picture to today, studios have been adapting literary works for the big screen. And, for just...

I pried myself away from my air conditioner long enough to catch Captain America: The First Avenger at the New 400 Sunday afternoon. Wha...

In the midst of a busy weekend and before Snowmageddon 2011 begins, I did manage to sneak in one more film for the month of January, keepin...

As I noted recently , I saw more movies on the big screen last year than I ever had before (32), and my goal for this year was to beat last...

There's a lot to love about The Criterion Collection , the company that not only has issued many of the greatest films ever made on DVD ...

Jonah Hex is based on a long-standing DC comics who, after having served the Confederacy in the Civil War and suffered many personal trage...

I've probably told this story here before, but in the context of this review, it bears repeating: When I was about 15, my mother deci...

What better way to get over Hump Day than with random thoughts from me? *sound of crickets chirping* Yes...well...anyway... The last movi...

(NOTE: The following review was originally written for a movie review website to which I used to contribute an essay or two a month for abou...

(NOTE: The following review was originally written for a movie review website to which I used to contribute an essay or two a month for abou...

(NOTE: The following review was originally written for a movie review website to which I used to contribute an essay or two a month for abou...

Travel Reading: The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper . Unlike most books about the gruesome murders in Whitechapel in 1888, The Mammoth Book...

Last Movie I saw: Whip It. Why did this movie fail at the box office? Was it resistance to the concept of Drew Barrymore as a director? (Sh...

Extract . Generally Speaking, I like the work of Mike Judge (creator of Bevis & Butt-Head and King of the Hill ), and I love the cast, ...

We see so many movies set on one coast or the other--in sunny, smoggy L.A. or crowded, noisy N.Y.C.--that it's genuinely refreshing to ...