After a 12 year absence from fighting aliens and donning dark black shades, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reunite in Men In Black III.  Opening May 25, 2012, the film also stars Josh Brolin (as a younger version of Jones’ character) and Emma Thompson.  Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two films, is back [...]

Filmmaker Alexander Payne’s (Sideways, About Schmidt) latest effort The Descendants centers on Matt King (George Clooney), a middle aged father who barely knows his daughters (Amara Miller, Shailene Woodley) but must step up to the plate after his wife is involved in a tragic boating accident off Waikiki.

The picture, which opens in New York [...]

Gus Van Sant’s recent film Restless (PG-13, 92 minutes), the story of a pessimistic funeral crasher (Henry Hopper) who forms a profound bond with a dying teenager (Mia Wasikowska), will be available on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack January 24th through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Produced by The Help actress Bryce Dallas Howard, the picture marks the [...]

Drive, opening September 16th, centers on a stunt wheelman (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a getaway driver.  His straight ahead and bleak existence takes a drastic turn when he falls in love with his neighbor (Carey Mulligan), a woman whose ex-convict husband (Oscar Isaac) returns home.

A life of crime, if films like [...]

Opening September 23rd, Moneyball is a movie based on Michael Lewis’ acclaimed 2003 book about Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane’s (Brad Pitt) attemps to craft a winning team through the use of baseball economics.  Jonah Hill co-stars as Peter Brand (the assistant GM’s real name is Paul DePodesta), the assistant general manager who helps [...]

It’s nightfall in Seattle, and and tightly wound hitman Jonas Arbor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) has just a bottle of booze and a crappy television set to keep him company.  The scars that adorn his back were earned by years of service performing covert operations for the government, but unfortunately Jonas has gone rogue.  Saddled [...]

James Marsden should have received his proper due for director Richard Kelly’s overlooked supernatural film The Box, which essentially was an extended Twilight Zone episode.  Marsden’s latest film, Straw Dogs, is also an echo of things past; movie buffs (and Sam Peckinpah devotees) will remember the original 1971 film, which starred Dustin Hoffman as [...]

Hugh Jackman has been MIA at your local theater since 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But on October 7th, Jackman is back with Real Steel, playing Charlie, a has been pugilist turned low level promoter of boxing robots.  Teaming up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo), the pair build and train a robot that they [...]

X-Men: First Class, directed by filmmaker Matthew Vaughn, could be the franchise’s strongest installment, as the picture delves into the early friendship between Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), mutants whose clashing philosophies would eventually lead to the epic battles between Xavier’s group The X-Men and Lehnsherr’s (aka Magneto) Brotherhood of the [...]

Actor Will Ferrell, who has had a recurring role this season as DeAngelo Vickers on The Office, stars as recently unemplyed salesman Nick Porter in Everything Must Go. After his wife leaves him, Nick decides to sell all his items, and he holds an epic yard sale on his front lawn.  Based on the Raymond [...]