Viggo Mortensen

What Do Men Want

The birth of psychoanalysis in A Dangerous Method.

Buckethead

Your 2011 Fall/Winter Movie Preview - Part 2

​You know the drill: the fall movie season starts today, my pretties (my review of Contagion will be up soon...there's a reason it didn't make the preview). Yesterday we covered the first half of 2011's most anticipated upcoming releases, determined through a rigorous scientific analysis consi ... More >>

For Anthony Weiner, Eight Awkward Dongs From The Movies (NSFW)

Did not make the cut.​In my review of The Hangover Part II, I made a comment about the seeming preponderance of male genitalia on the big screen lately. The phenomenon has been limited primarily to comedies because, let's face it, penises are pretty damn funny looking. Judging by that screeni ... More >>

Middle-of-the-Road

Neither horrific nor disasterrrific, Cormac McCarthy adap takes the path of least resistance.

From Reverence to Rape in Defiance

Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

Risky Business for Valkyrie

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission

Old West: Appaloosa

Ed Harris goes traditional

Eastern Promises, American Pie: Beta House, The Kingdom, War

Eastern Promises

An accessible narrative belies something much darker, and stranger, in Eastern Promises

Hoop Dreams Come True

Oh, the Horror!

Kick off the fall season with a frightful film festival and some freaky props

Tom's Diner

When David Cronenberg picks up a pistol, Violence begets comedy

Suburban Outfitters

Life and style outside the Loop are examined in "Fashioning Arcadia"

Gallo's Pole

The weirdo auteur drives morbidly toward his own money shot in The Brown Bunny

Metaphor Alert: Bright Red

Like America's current leaders, Viggo and Hidalgo try to "enlighten" the Arabs with Western justice

Bow Down

The Return of the King rules

Shakedown Cruise

On his maiden voyage, veteran director Peter Weir masters the sea epic

Orc Chops

The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film

In the Baggins

We're off to see the wonderful wizards of The Lord of the Rings

Drug Rehab: The Comedy

Alcoholism undergoes the Sandra Bullock treatment in 28 Days

Son of Psycho

Van Sant pumps fresh blood into his tribute to the classic

Time to Kill

Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers

Butch-ered

G.I. Jane traps a testosterone-poisoned lunkhead in Demi Moore's body

Cold-Blooded Sacrifice

The Lady Vanishes

Jane Campion's adaptation of Henry James gets everything wrong

Tunnel Vision

Daylight is hopelessly dim