It’s not every weekend that two movies about practiced killers are new in theaters simultaneously.

Why is it so weird to see Drew Barrymore and Justin Long sharing a bong and making out? And humping on the kitchen table? And having relatively explicit phone sex? Is it just that such supercute people normally don’t do these things in cookie cutter romantic comedies? Is it because they’re together—or were, or will […]

The American (R, 105 minutes) An American assassin (George Clooney) heads to Italy for one last assignment in the latest flick by Anton Corbijn based on the novel by Martin Booth. Opening Friday Avatar (Special Edition) (PG-13, 170 minutes)  If you didn’t get your fill the first time this mega-blockbuster came through, catch the film […]

True story: Somewhere in the South during the Great Depression, an old man lived alone in the woods. One day, for reasons unknown, he decided to host his own funeral. Now he has a movie, Get Low, which asks, What makes a man a reclusive codger? How might he unbecome one? Will a clean shave […]

It’s like a comic. It’s like a vintage video game. It’s like every Michael Cera movie rolled into one big video for an innocuous Canadian indie rock band. It’s like the graphic novels of Bryan Lee O’Malley adapted by the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and the funniest of those fake […]

For every one person who asks what people did before the Internet with regard to restaurant reviews or Google Maps,

Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (PG, 82 minutes) When a technologically competent kitty goes rogue, the two pet species must bury the hatchet and align forces to save their human masters. Regal Seminole Square 4  Charlie St. Cloud (PG-13, 98 minutes) Disney Channel eye-candy Zac Efron delves into an introspective character whose future […]

 In the grand scheme of things, we should have known it wouldn’t be so long after Breakfast of Champions that we’d be having Dinner for Schmucks

Movie trilogies can be as depressing as they are predictable.

Considering what else is out there, Inception could have been the best movie of the summer without even trying. But it’s a Christopher Nolan movie, so of course it tries. Hard. As the logical extension of whatever through-line might be drawn from Memento to The Dark Knight, Inception has all we’d want from Nolan: the […]