Nicolas Cage hasn't had a good month. Besides the financial troubles, his father passed away. The press day for The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, directed by legend Werner Herzog, came about a week after that tragedy, and Cage shuffled in looking rather zombie-like. My own father, a…

Pitt-fall
The Bra in Brangelina just signed a deal to develop and star in a franchise based on a videogame that hasn't even come out yet. The game -- aptly titled Dark Void -- follows a pilot who crashes into the Bermuda Triangle and find himself on an alternate earth where sophisticated aliens are…

"It's the very likable performances that give the film the most resonance."

Speaking of being blindsided, The Blind Side is good enough to make me almost forgive Sandra Bullock for All About Steve, which is the worst movie I've seen this year. I wasn't sure I'd ever get over that…

"Entertaining enough for a family trip to the theater."

Glipforg is just how you might imagine an idyllic American town in the 1950s: neighborly citizens greeting each other by name, driving Thunderbird-esque hovercrafts to their saucer-shaped homes, flipping floating burgers on…

"A legitimate artistic expression on love, loss, and the obsessive qualities of initial attraction."

From the start of the moody and brooding opening title cards you know you're in for a better experience than the last go-round. Director Chris Weitz has delivered a treat, a…

"(Untitled) isn't just a takedown of highfalutin creative types but a smart, thoughtful deflating of their egos."

Few subjects are more ripe for ridicule than pretentious artists, and Jonathan Parker's (Untitled) skewers the world of contemporary art in a way that's insightful and…