Ricky Gervais (bless his heart) with his rather doughy complexion, curiously fangy Cheshire smile, and propensity to ramble on inappropriately, is not really the first fellow who comes to mind...

If you title your movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno, you are bound to get people's attention. If you put mainstream stars in it, like Seth Rogen and Elizabeth...

Director Mike Leigh has always managed to craft extraordinary films about ordinary people. The people are flawed, imperfect, and often (in his films) have a tinge of sadness. So it...

OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies won the Golden Space Needle Audience Award at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2006, and I could see why. I'll bet this...

Now, people who know me well know that I'm just about the last person to say, "That show is so freakin' cute I can barely stand it! I LOVE IT!"......

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has extremely white teeth. He is also a freakishly large man. It's not just me saying this: both facts are pointed out in The Game Plan,...

No matter what Fred Astaire says, I don't think Audrey Hepburn has a funny face. Sure, she is a wee skinny girl with big doe eyes... but "funny"? Heck, next...

I liked Eagle vs. Shark much more the first time I saw it, when it was called Napoleon Dynamite. OK, let me be fair: in Eagle vs. Shark, the dorky...

In the spirit of Jim Jarmusch's early work (especially the slacker-fest Stranger Than Paradise), Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season is a minimalist black-and-white slice-of-life gem about a handful of unremarkable people...

Here's an honest question: Is it possible to plagiarize yourself? The reason I ask is this: Drillbit Taylor is like a sadly unfunny, PG-13 ripoff of Superbad (combined with ample...