How can we teach girls to be kinder to each other? We see a lot of movies and television shows and ads about the importance of being thin and looking young and smelling good and making money and being quippy and snarky and fast with put-downs and winning by vanquishing everyone around you but we don’t get many positive images of the simplest and perhaps the most powerful quality that is available to everyone: the quality of kindness. Last September, Lauren Parsekian and Molly Stroud Read More...

Fifteen years ago this week, when there were only a few thousand websites and not one from a corporation or publication, I decided to publish movie reviews online from a parents’ point of view. At that time, just about every site on the Web was put there by a college student or someone in the military or was part of a university’s in-house system for publishing notices of meetings and conferences and trading papers and data. I had been online since 1986, when it was just Read More...

Former Senior editor and Founder of the Movie Blog John Campea hosted The Masters of the Web panel at Comic Con, which featured the following esteemed webmasters that we all respect and read. JEN YAMATO – Movies.com EDWARD DOUGLAS – Comingsoon.net MIKE SAMPSON – JoBlo.com ERIK DAVIS – Cinimatical.com GEORGE “EL GUAPO” ROUSH – LatinoReviews.com PAUL ENS – Former head of FilmForce.Net, director of Lucas Online and now President of Red 5 Read More...

Former Senior editor and Founder of the Movie Blog John Campea hosted The Masters of the Web panel at Comic Con, which featured the following esteemed webmasters that we all respect and read. JEN YAMATO – Movies.com EDWARD DOUGLAS – Comingsoon.net MIKE SAMPSON – JoBlo.com ERIK DAVIS – Cinimatical.com GEORGE “EL GUAPO” ROUSH – LatinoReviews.com PAUL ENS – Former head of FilmForce.Net, director of Lucas Online and now President of Red 5 Read More...

On Tuesday, NBC confirmed that Steve Carell will leave The Office after one more season. This means that Carell, who will have both Despicable Me and Dinner With Schmucks performing in theaters, will in deed have more time on his hands for his family and/or for more movies. With a almost dozen of movies tentatively on development, Carell is one busy comedy star. Apparently, today we can add one more film to his plans. HollywoodReporter states: DreamWorks Studios has bitten into the Read More...

On Tuesday, NBC confirmed that Steve Carell will leave The Office after one more season. This means that Carell, who will have both Despicable Me and Dinner With Schmucks performing in theaters, will in deed have more time on his hands for his family and/or for more movies. With a almost dozen of movies tentatively on development, Carell is one busy comedy star. Apparently, today we can add one more film to his plans. HollywoodReporter states: DreamWorks Studios has bitten into the Read More...

I get it.  I get Blue Velvet on every level.  I really do.  Of course, that doesn’t give it a pass. I will start by saying that this, our third film in the Dennis Hopper spotlight, has one of the best Hopper performances I’ve seen to date.  His Frank Booth was so unbelievably nasty and vile.  A villain you truly love to hate. Hopper delivers each and every venom filled line with gusto and precision.  And when he needs to be a sniveling, drug addled cry baby, he pulls that Read More...

There are some films out there that are simply begging for that remake.  And why shouldn’t they?  I know there are purists who think nothing should ever be updated or remade, but with all of the advancements available to filmmakers today, why not take a concept that worked and find another way for it to work?  Many fans of the original, Ray Harryhausen produced, Clash of The Titans cried foul immediately, but that didn’t stop people from flocking to the theaters.  Now if Read More...

51. Return of the King The final movie in the trilogy won all the Oscars, but clearly they were being awarded to the trilogy as a whole — as far as individual movies go, “The Two Towers” is far superior.   For one thing, “Return” takes 45 minutes to end six different ways.   How much resolution do we really need? And yet…it’s a spectacular film unto itself, a spectacle indeed, a hearty feast for the hungry moviegoer.  The battles scenes were Read More...

Who is Salt? I’ll tell you who she is: She’s Bourne on Heels. Angelina Jolie is Evelyn Salt and she is a spy on the run after her loyalties are put into question. Is she working for the CIA or a Russian sleeper agent? The film makes it a guessing game until late in the movie to show where Salt’s loyalties lie. But to keep things interesting, we’ll see our heroine in exciting chase scenes and stunts that will make Tom Cruise (the action star originally tapped to play Read More...

Alice In Wonderland is the film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s well known story. This time Alice is older and making life decisions, many of which she’d like to escape at the moment, including a marriage proposal. Alice succeeds in escaping her problems by falling down the rabbit hole into an other worldly adventure. How magical can Lewis Carroll fable translate to on film? Incredibly magical if Tim Burton is involved. The lead actors are uniformly excellent in this film. Read More...

The glorious Esperanza Spaulding sings “Overjoyed” at the White House tribute to Stevie Wonder. Heaven. And here it is sung by Stevie himself. This is one of my favorite songs, ever. Read this post » Read More...

The glorious Esperanza Spaulding sings “Overjoyed” at the White House tribute to Stevie Wonder. Heaven. And here it is sung by Stevie himself. This is one of my favorite songs, ever. Read this post » Read More...

The Daily Beast has a great gallery of villain fashion. Sean Macaulay writes very perceptively about what we learn from the way the bad guys dress. The key to any great supervillain–and why we secretly like them–is that they are not destroyers, at heart, but creators. They don’t want riches or power, they want to realize a vision. They are arrogant and remote. Their certainty is breathtaking. But there’s no denying their artistry. Macaulay notes that good guys tend Read More...

The Daily Beast has a great gallery of villain fashion. Sean Macaulay writes very perceptively about what we learn from the way the bad guys dress. The key to any great supervillain–and why we secretly like them–is that they are not destroyers, at heart, but creators. They don’t want riches or power, they want to realize a vision. They are arrogant and remote. Their certainty is breathtaking. But there’s no denying their artistry. Macaulay notes that good guys tend Read More...