Paranormal Activity builds scares out of shadows, loud noises and anticipation.

Couples Retreat is as bland and predictable as a bad marriage.

Zombieland is not a parody of or a post-modern commentary on the zombie genre — like, say, Shaun of the Dead — but it is still a total blast.

So Long Are You Young: Samuel Ullman’s Poem and Passion • Sunday • 12:45 p.m. [...]

Official Rejection • Saturday • 1:30 p.m. • Carver Theatre
Film festivals are fun for [...]

In Alexander City, Dr. George Hardy is known as a dentist and one of the [...]

Despite the potency of Antarctica as a setting, Whiteout is pretty lukewarm.

Ten years after Office Space flopped at the box office and became a cult hit on [...]

The idea of humans meeting aliens or other frightening creatures and turning out to be [...]

I was the perfect age to be absolutely obsessed with G.I. Joe as a child. [...]

Comedy is serious business, and director Judd Apatow’s hilarious and surprisingly dramatic new film Funny [...]

 
If there’s one thing I have learned from the movies, it’s never to piss off [...]

The fourth annual Birmingham SHOUT, scheduled for May 29-30 at WorkPlay, will showcase features, documentaries and short films by new and established artists and offer attendees the opportunity to view topics of interest to the LGBT communities, as well as to interact with filmmakers and documentary subjects in attendance.

For the last decade or two, the Star Trek franchise has been in a pretty [...]

Origin stories in superhero movies are tricky things. Usually, they are just things that need [...]

 
The original Crank was an unexpected joy for action-movie fans. It starred Jason Statham in [...]

Superbad director Greg Mottola’s charming new film Adventureland finds new depths in an old genre.

The next three days feature a wide variety of music-themed movies at the Alabama Theatre, [...]

Oct. 31: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974):
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Those few of you who have been following this [...]

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Oct. 30: Deep Red (1975):
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Earlier this month, I wrote about Suspiria, the nightmarish horror film [...]