It's been a strange year for movies. The residual effects of the writers' strike combined with The Academy opening the Best Picture field to ten entrants has left people looking around for favorites. But there's no heat behind any of the titles, and consensus has yet to form on even five "great"…

This year Helen Mirren played the tart-tongued, hardbitten newspaper boss of investigative journalist Russell Crowe in State of Play, but she's better known as an investigator herself -- Inspector Tennison in seven series of Prime Suspect murder mysteries. After decades of glory on the British stage…

Michael Mann likes to shoot a lot of footage. He will put the camera anywhere. Behind the back, behind the ear, he doesn't just want us to get inside the actors' heads, he wants us inside them. If he could, he'd suck us into their brains and spit us out onto the New Jersey turnpike two hours later.…

Editor's Note: You know the conversation you often have with your friends that goes "How in the world did they decide to make this movie?" Well, we have it too. And using only the power of our imaginations we've decided to put you in the room for the process behind Did You Hear About the Morgans? En…

"Rank the modern Disney animations," Film.com told me, and I thought, Suckers. This'll be easy.

Turns out, not so much.

The first question is, What's a Disney film? Do you count Pixar films? I decided I would, because even though Pixar and Disney have been

"While the film is often thrilling and generally compelling, it doesn't have the poignance that it should."

The Road is 2009's entry in the Movies You Admire and Respect but Don't Ever Want to Watch Again Sweepstakes. You know going in that it's going to be bleak and somber; the…