As the annual crescendo in the film-award-ceremony circuit, the Oscars predictably generate a lot of buzz. This year, though, in a show littered with song-and-dance routines and tributes to some of Hollywood’s most...

Seasonal film releases have become much predictable in recent years. If it’s Halloween, it must be time for either a Saw or Paranormal Activity movie to be in theaters. Likewise, if it’s late winter or early...

If you enjoy Oscar night as much as I do, you’ve spent a great deal of the last month anticipating who will be able to add the illustrious title “Academy Award winner” to their names in film previews. Some...

If you think a valentine is a message from the heart to someone special, and that someone special for you is Lawrence Ferlinghetti — considered by many to be the bestselling poet of the modern era — then...

Zero Dark Thirty begins in brutal fashion. Well, emotionally speaking, anyway. The first two minutes of director Kathryn Bigelow’s high-stakes CIA action thriller set the tone for the rest of the film, as blackness...

It’s a strange phenomenon. When we try to grasp the reality of six million souls slaughtered during Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, the mind and heart grow numb, but when we let ourselves glimpse just two lives in...

Now that I’ve given my two cents on what I found to be the most appalling movies of the past year, here’s another pair of pennies regarding the other end of the cinematic spectrum. Though Oscar voters may have...

Well, organizations around the world have made their picks for the cream of the crop for movies released in 2012. For me, the day the Academy announces the nominations is like Christmas Eve, with the actual date of...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first installment in Peter Jackson’s newest trilogy set in the fantasy land of Middle Earth, would be more accurately classified as a long-winded journey. A prequel to the...

When it comes to the environment, folks are easily swayed by the voice of Hollywood and its familiar faces to tell them what to think. Though some movies might make a cogent argument for or against certain green...