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

Spike Jonze’s WTWTA may be the most honest film ever made about the wildness of childhood.

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.

With nine venues located within Birmingham’s historic Theatre District (featuring the newly restored Alabama Theatre, a 2,200 seat movie palace built by Paramount in 1927), spontaneity and variety rule at Sidewalk.

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 [...]

Birmingham filmmaker Chance Shirley’s INTERPLANETARY has been described as “OFFICE SPACE-meets-ALIEN,” a stab at corporate office life that just happens to feature a high body count.

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 [...]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince dispels the gloom found in the latest Potter movies by [...]

John Dillinger was far from the most successful bank robber in American history, but he is [...]

Like all great gifts, The Ultimate Gift was a surprise. It’s not that I didn’t [...]

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

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 [...]