"I know! Let's make a kids' movie where the villain is an economic overlord who doesn't care one whit about pollution, whose hold on the town's citizens is so complete that he owns the very air they breathe. Let's give …

Here's my problem with the party-gone-wild movie Project X: someone took a perfectly good black comedy and grafted it onto an '80s-style fairy tale. Think, I dunno, Heathers mashed up with Risky Business. Or a ravenous, rabid Bengal tiger with …

A new day, a new trailer for Project X, the party-gone-wild movie opening Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj_ZNnehHAQ You wouldn't know it from the trailer, but Kirby Bliss Blanton plays a pretty big role in the story as Kirby, the hero's friend-who's-a-girl but …

...don't forget the Disney Gas Mask!

So the kids-gone-wild party movie Project X opens Friday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBv54LhBWyQ "Tonight's about the girls we never had a shot at" - that's high school senior Castro, talking to his friend Thomas. The night in question is Thomas's 17th birthday party. …

NOTA BENE: Mr. Marks drew official duties on this one, and you can check out his black-spot review in tomorrow's online edition of this fine media establishment. But we're nothing if not contentious here at The Big Screen, so here …

Here we go... Reader Oscar Liveblog 2012

Remember this scene from Silence of the Lambs? (If you haven't seen Silence of the Lambs, maybe watch just the first minute or so.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc7gm3Hthe8&noredirect=1 I don't feel bad referencing a different film than the one I'm reviewing right here …

Obviously, this is a more complicated question than what happened to Clive Owen. Washington is one of our generation's Major Leading Men, and he's got two Oscars to boot. But I don't think there's any doubt that, as David Elliott …

So I went to a screening of the party-gone-wild movie Project X last night. Most of the other attendees were, from the looks of them, college students. (Even though the party is set in a high school, I'm thinking college …

David Elliott shines a big light on In Darkness and its director, Agnieszka Holland: "Holland, 63, is one of those strong, honest, humane directors (The Secret Garden, Europa Europa, Washington Square) whose films get terrific reviews but seldom leave the …

What happened to Clive Owen? No, really - I wanna know. I thought he was it. The next thing. The return of the tough guy with a heart. Handsome but not delicate. Rugged but not thuggish. And for a while …

Here's how it works around here: Mr. Marks does all the heavy lifting, and I sit off in the wings and nitpick. So while I certainly sympathize with his frustration at getting yet another Ban from the Man on Facebook, …

So here's my review for Loosies: Or: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Abortion. Well, okay, not funny, exactly. But it does involve the world’s handsomest pickpocket (Peter Facinelli) fleeing from the world’s most bumbling future chief …

Reader critic David Elliott slips on his dancing shoes for the dance-doc Pina, and finds her an able partner: "Although the great critic Arlene Croce called some [Pina] Bausch trademarks 'flashy schtick,' I was entirely engaged by the dancers putting …

I know that I harp on the depressing similarity of today's movie beasties too often. So I thought I'd propose something that highlights their differences: Beast Wars, the movie. Basically, we take the critters from their various brief film appearances …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7bAWtlKLSk First things first: HUGE props to Gary Oldman for saying that Miss Piggy is the most sincere person he's met on the receiving line so far at the BAFTAS. Second: look, I'm not the first to say that The …

Attention, Twihards! The Blu-Ray/DVD for Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 will go on sale at midnight tonight at Target in Mission Valley! That's right: starting at midnight and continuing for one, sweet, irreplaceable hour, Target will be selling copies of …

Channing Tatum has a nice butt. Don't believe me? Check out The Vow and see for yourself. "I am still trying to figure out why he was cast in that role," said my friend as we left the theater. On …

Seriously, folks. Now that we've got three (that I can think of off the top of my head), can we kill this "parallel stories of past and present" thing? Did anybody come away from Julie & Julia without thinking that …