"Who watches this movie?" asks Uwe Boll rhetorically in the DVD commentary for Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. "The 15- to 25-year-old boys." T...

The armchair revolutionary in me would like to regard Mystery Science Theater 3000 as fundamentally radical. With "entertainment journalism"...

The word "anarchic" is used so often to describe the Marx Brothers, but how seriously do people really take this claim? Because their films...

There are numerous interchangeable glamour girls lurking in the background of The Cocoanuts (1929). They're usually in chorus lines, kicking...

More than those any of his contemporaries in the Happy Madison stable (Schneider, Spade, king poo-bah Sandler), Kevin James's screen persona...

Very funny, candid and exhausting, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop has no arc and no editorially imposed "story." It ostensibly follows Conan O'Bri...

Not many actors could have pulled off Barney Panofsky. A terrible TV producer and worse husband, he cheats on his wives, lies to everyone, p...

To what extent is Nicolas Cage putting us on? Does his extremely questionable list of recent film choices suggest he's a lunatic or is he op...

Michael Winterbottom's The Trip has already spawned one YouTube phenomenon ― Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's testily comparing their Mic...

If there's a problem with the Cars movies, it's only that their central conceit is fundamentally flawed. Your mileage may vary, but I have t...

Roger Corman has cited Jaws as the turning point of American exploitation filmmaking ― not only had the major studios begun working in...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire always seems to be taking place in some bleak reception area, the kind where there's always a fai...

The burly policemen and neighbourhood bullies who hassled the Little Tramp in Charlie Chaplin's silent films have morphed into stormtroopers...

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Phil (Bradley Cooper) phones a wedding reception to warn them that a drunken bachelor party has gon...

The most forceful scenes in Bobby Fischer Against the World come towards the end, long after the peak of Fischer's fame as the world chess c...

While I'm not sure I'd have the patience to sit through every episode of Cap'n Video, there is something almost noble about the sheer pointl...

Race is only explicitly invoked a few times in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), but it lingers unspoken throughout, giving the film a sense of dang...

Jacques Tati is so strongly remembered for the microscopic precision of his pantomime comedies ― films like Play Time and Mr. Hulot's...

"I'm gonna hide you," says Martin Lawrence to his son (Brandon T. Jackson) after the latter witnesses a murder early in Big Mommas: Like Fat...

Vince Vaughn and Kevin James stand side-by-side against an empty white backdrop on the DVD box of The Dilemma, staring at the prospective pu...