3D: Film history repeats itself. Picture above: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with Rupert Grint. (Jaap Buitendijk / Warner Bros.). ‘Hatty Potter’ & ‘Clash of the Titans’ in 3D:…
Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Vanity Fair strikes again. No, no photo shoots this time. Just the list of Hollywood’s Top 40 moneymakers in 2009, based on estimates…
Spider-Man reboot getting new actor and director. Pictured: Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3. Star Tobey Maguire (above, in Spider-Man 3) and director Sam Raimi will not be back for the…
‘Remember Me’ poster I don’t know if Remember Me will be any good, but I gotta say that I’m looking forward to checking it out. Besides Robert Pattinson, the Allen…
Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Taylor Kitsch, Liev Schreiber, Lynn Collins, Will.i.am at the world premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine at Harkin’s Theaters Tempe Marketplace on April 27, ’09, in Tempe,…
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Bruce Willis looks none too cheerful. The original Die Hard (1988) will have a special 20th anniversary screening on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 7:30…
‘The Dark Knight’ with Heath Ledger as The Joker and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes: Latest Batman movie trailing only ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Titanic’? ‘The Dark Knight’ has climbed to…
Tobey Maguire is in great shape in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007), which, despite its qualities, is hindered by an overabundance of villains and subplots.
The pornographically violent 2007 Steve Austin actioner The Condemned wants to denounce bloodshed while glorifying it.
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s 2007 action comedy Hot Fuzz is a riotously funny and unusually creative spoof of Hollywood’s buddy movies.
Shooter movie: A graduate of the George W. Bush School of Peace and Democracy, Mark Wahlberg gives a demonstration of his skills as global peacemaker. When former marine corps scout sniper…
Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 action classic Seven Samurai is one of those rare films that get better and better with each new viewing. Toshiro Mifune stars.
First-rate athlete Tony Jaa is the one positive element in the juvenile and reactionary martial arts actioner Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior.
“When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies” is the title of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council’s program about the physics behind some of Hollywood’s best-known action and science-fiction scenes.…
Hulk 2008: Edward Horton in The Incredible Hulk. Way, way back, I used to enjoy watching The Incredible Hulk on television. The plots of most TV episodes, if memory doesn’t…
Marcus Nispel’s remake of the Oscar-nominated drama Pathfinder is unnecessarily gruesome and arrogantly simple-minded. Karl Urban stars.
Menahem Golan’s Oscar-nominated flag-waving 1977 political thriller Operation Thunderbolt is a dismal failure as both cinema and propaganda.