Let me assure you that “The Dark Knight” does, eventually, end. This latest Batman opus, a sequel to “Batman Begins” that brings back most of the principal filmmakers and players, is an exhausting 21/2 hours, almost none of it...
The humor – nay, the wit – of the old “Get Smart” TV series was neatly encapsulated in the closing credits of the show. You remember it. Maxwell Smart, looking as natty as ever, approaches the camera from the phone booth at the...
There are men who would rather hang themselves with a monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag than watch back episodes of “Sex and the City,” but I'm not one of them. On the contrary, I've always been amused and fascinated by the navel-gazing clotheshorse...
The answer to the implied question in “How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer” is straightforward enough: The Garcia girls had sex. And some awkward foreplay. Harder to ascertain is how writer-director Georgina Riedel managed to take such...
“You might find Narnia a more savage place than you remember,” an ally warns our sibling foursome just after little Lucy (Georgie Henley) isnearly turned into a button-nosed, bucktoothed snack by a hungry bear. More savage? I guess! If it's...
Oh, if only the cast and crew of “What Happens in Vegas …” had taken the famous slogan literally and, yes, stayed there. The fewer people privy to this slobbering, emotionally incoherent rom-com bender, the better. Then again, what...
“Redbelt” is a middle-of-the-pack David Mamet movie at best, but in the artistically impoverished ghetto of martial-arts flicks, it's practically “The Godfather.” Combining noir suspense, Hollywood intrigue and his own, practiced...
Starring the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard, “Iron Man” boasts the kind of rarefied call sheet one would typically associate with an Oscar-customized ensemble drama, not a smash-mouth sci-fi blockbuster...