Cloaked in the retro-stylistic graphics that defined the crime-fighting films of the ’70s and ’80s, the opening credits of The Heat are clearly meant to evoke the prestige of the infamous buddy-cop...

In the thick of adolescence, wanting to escape the clutches of parental oppression is about as innately human as that post-puberty awkward phase we all strive to expunge from our memory. It’s a time when many of us...

As spectators watching a film or a stage production, it is sometimes lost on us that everyone on screen or center stage has a story of their own; a story that may lie hidden behind their performance or is worn proudly...

As any seasoned drug addict knows, sometimes you have to pace yourself to get the most out of each individual high. The DVD release of Breaking Bad: The Fifth Season displays that good things come to junkies who...

Pop open any one of the designer handbags displayed proudly on the hips of The Bling Ring and the only thing that won’t come tumbling out is a functioning moral compass. Their story is a true crime ripped from the...

For years, continuing on the legacy Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster began in 1938 has been a tricky matter. While the tagline for the first big movie based on their work asserted we would believe a man can fly, another...

In 2001, Pixar (still in its infancy) released their fright-tastic Monsters, Inc. and introduced us to a world where the screams of little children were harvested as an energy source for the city of Monstropolis,...

Who knew the end of the world, with all the proverbial fire and brimstone, could be so hysterical. At least that’s how it’s made to seem in This Is the End, a rousing and shamelessly hilarious end-of-days comedy...

They say it’s often times the quiet ones. The ones you would never expect. The ones that seem harmless. Maniac’s Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) is one of “those.” The lone owner of a mannequin restoration shop,...

There is no accounting for taste in The Internship, a heinously self-indulgent, two-hour commercial for Google that just so happens to star Wedding Crashers funnymen Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as two 40-something...