Summer is a time of popcorn movies, and while the buttery goodness of a bag of salty snacks is nearly always worth the added price of concessions, the feature itself often is not. Whatever your cinematic preferences,...

Some TV shows are of such high quality, it seems like the creators must have been touched by God. The process of getting programming on DVD and Blu-ray must be the work of other forces from a very warm climate, as we...

Over the years, Pixar has taken us on magical journey after magical journey. Rapt audience members have traversed the ocean with a couple of endearing fish and some surfer-dude turtles. We’ve been pulled up into...

Upon hearing someone describe a sexual act involving a parsnip, your first instinct might be to say, “Ew!” However, given the fact that the person saying this ugly statement is three feet tall, has button eyes...

Lasantha Wickrematunge is probably not a name most people in the Western World would recognize. His martyrdom as the editor-in-chief of Sri Lanka’s critical newspaper, The Morning Leader was, unlike the parts that...

I first met Beth and George Gage, the husband and wife team of Gage and Gage Productions, in the fall of 2010. They came to my alma mater — Pitzer College in Claremont, California — to screen the trailer...

Back when all the girls in school wore knee socks and all the boys wore coonskin caps, life was a lot more innocent. Of course, as the movie Moonrise Kingdom shows us, part of that carefree lifestyle was that...

Prometheus, a new film by Ridley Scott, opens with soaring overhead shots of austere landscapes in chilling blacks, grays, and blues. The terrain is mysterious and cruelly beautiful, but as we approach a thunderous...

Whatever you think about the color pink, it’s probably pretty harmless. From baby girl shower blankets to that sweet-sixteen wallpaper you picked out for her, it’s bound to please.

It’s a fairytale tradition as old as time itself: prince rescues princess, they fall in love, and live happily ever after. Whatever obstacle is in their way, he is the one who overcomes it; the gender roles are...