By: Zachary HermannCount Sam Raimi among the people who saw and thought, "Gee, why can't more studios put out budget-conscious gems like this?" The Spider-Man director will be playing Peter Jackson to his own Neill Blomkamp of sorts, a Uruguayan

If you're lucky enough to be graced with cash or gift cards this Christmas, and you have a big hole on your DVD shelf where ought to be, Warner Bros will be happy to help you out. On February 16

It's a bit disconcerting when a movie takes a 70% tumble in its second weekend, and still ends up with a $66 million holiday take, but that's Twilight fans for you. took all of eight days to get to $200

As the perpetual young'en on the staff, it only seems fitting that I start chronicling my encounters with whatever classic or otherwise noteworthy titles that I'm just now dusting off and catching up with. For the first in this series,

Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best.There is no doubt about it, is a big old movie star. But, what's always struck

Over at , Peter Nelhaus started about how long Netflix subscribers should get to keep DVDs without penalty. Peter feels that Netflix needs to establish some limits -- after you've hung on to a disc for, say, two months, you

Lately I have been looking at some of my year-end awards screeners, mainly the documentaries. My critics' group votes for the year's best documentary; we each vote for our top five and then vote again from the top five finalists.

Making a movie about a character whose name you never reveal sounds backwards and bizarre. How are we supposed to identify with the protagonist if we don't even know what to call him? But many films go that route, including

By his own admission, seems to be fast-becoming Hollywood's go-to guy for revenge stories. After beginning his career as an assistant director for the Wachowski brothers, he made his directorial debut with the graphic novel adaptation , and is now

Ben Stiller stars in this indie comedy about a man who deals with his mid-life crisis by doing nothing. Stiller actually seems appealing when he's not trying to be zany. Watch for this one on March 12. This new international

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The time of year when I watch a dozen times because "It's Christmassy!", complain that it didn't win Best Picture, and fall in love with and all over again. It's not as

Our brothers and sisters over at TV Squad have busted through the boob tube and brought with them the following juicy bits of must-see eye candy. There are a lot of changes coming to Scrubs this season, and of cast

When I first saw I was trying to slink out of the theater afterward without anyone noticing my red eyes and nose. Too bad someone caught me and asked me if I was okay. "Uh, sure," I stammered, and ran

As my Twitter feed fills with constantly re-Tweeted online bargains (be still, my weeping wallet), and as our own site did to prepare you readers for today's Thunderdome of savings, it's likely that a great many of you ventured out

Director has been working on films since the late 1980s, back in his native Australia. He was second assistant director on Dark City and first assistant director on Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. He started working with Andy and

A film about an affair with your best friend's daughter is probably the last place you would expect to find a lesson on morality. But oddly enough, that's exactly what you get in 's sex comedy, . Like many of

Now that Iron Man 2 is in the finish stages, and Thor will kick off filming in January, the casting rumor mill must now find some new grist in The Avengers. (Not Captain America, oddly enough. We'll just skip right

It's time for the second feature written, directed, and starring the Muscles from Brussels . First we had The Quest, a story he whipped up with the help of Frank Dux (the man Bloodsport was based on). Now there's .

My love of dance movies, especially could probably all be traced back to . In 1984 I wasn't exactly the hippest girl on the block (after all it isn't easy to be hip when you're nine years old), but when

Armed with a collection of the world's notable directors, Paris je t'aime hit screens with a good deal of impact and buzz. It was to be the first piece in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love," a collection of films