Latest Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness I feel myself a little torn when it comes to J.J. Abrams “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” which by all accounts is a very good movie and more than a worthy sequel to the previous film of the franchise. As I was thinking about the film coming home I remembered all the cool action...More

Great Director of the Month: Ang Lee Like most people out there, the first time I had really heard of Ang Lee was when I saw “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” Not only because it was a foreign film that managed to break box office records and made Lee a winner of many awards (including Best Director at The Director's Guild America). With that movie though many of us had mistakenly felt we had Lee figured out. We figured he was a maker...More

In Memory
Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

Today Roget Ebert, one of the world's most important film critics, died today. He was 70 years old. You can gauge his importance as a film critic by how many people are flocking to Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest expressing how they feel about losing him. There will be tons of memorial editorials about his career in print, his Pulitzer, and his time on “Siskel & Ebert/Ebert & Roeper.” People will be writing about how he helped make criticism mainstream. You'll read about how cool “Two Thumbs Up” sounded when it first came out...More

Top Ten Twenty Best Films of 2012

The best of the best (expanded this year)...