Cast and crew err on the side of silly in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," the amusingly childish sequel to that unlikely 2008 hit, "Journey to the Center of the Earth." They've rendered Jules Verne's novel into a jokey lark, ...

There are stories that by their very nature force you to confront the possibility that people aren't entirely horrible. Case in point: In 1988, three whales got themselves trapped in Alaska. They were five miles away from the ocean, breathing ...

Already famous and perhaps overhyped as the first wide-release black-and-white silent film of the modern era, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius' salute to the romance of the movies is novel, funny and refreshing -- it's terrific entertainment.

Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson take over a failing California menagerie in Cameron Crowe's "We Bought a Zoo," opening Friday at theaters around the Mid-South.

The cliché pop combo word "bromance" isn't quite strong enough for the Arthur Conan Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell camaraderie on display in "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," a tiring and overwrought if occasionally entertaining action-adventure sequel in which the master detective's pursuit ...

"Into the Abyss" is the second documentary this year from tireless Bavarian existentialist Werner Herzog. The first, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," was a 3D exploration of the prehistoric art of France's Chauvet Cave. In "Abyss," Herzog spelunks darker depths: the ...

Everyone in Andrew Niccol’s “In Time” looks no older than 25, and that’s not some middle-aged optical illusion: In this futuristic tale, aging stops at 25, and those who wish to live longer must earn, steal or inherit time, which ...

That classic "creature feature" "The Thing" earns its third treatment with a film that's so enthralled with its actual "thing" that it forgets to be scary or suspenseful. A decent cast and a pristine glacial setting are wasted on a ...

Bad timing allowed “What’s Your Number?,” a mildly raunchy romantic comedy about a woman lamenting her sexual history as she resolves to finally save herself for Mr. Right, to come out mere months after the too-similar “Bridesmaids.”

A sort of improv-comedy travelogue in the form of a mock documentary, "The Trip" follows British actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, portraying somewhat fictionalized versions of themselves, as they ramble about the north of England, supposedly on assignment to ...

Director Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" a sleek, elegantly mounted dissection of a global pandemic, begins simply enough, in Hong Kong, with Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) under the weather and waiting to catch a flight back to America.

Take away much of the myth, most of the sorcery and all of the humor of the 1982 John Milius-Arnold Schwarzenegger version of the sword and sorcery epic “Conan the Barbarian,” and you’ve got an idea what the new “Conan” ...

I'll be honest: I was dreading "The Help," the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's phenomenally successful current best-seller about "colored" maids and their white employers in early 1960s Jackson, Miss.

The reason for “Cowboys & Aliens” — the justification for it, the appeal of it, the whole point of it — is contained in the title. Take a cowboy movie, add space aliens. That’s a gimmick that could easily have ...

From Shakespeare and Austen through Tracy and Hepburn, when it comes to romantic comedies, chemistry is king. It's one reason the rom-com has long seemed like the toughest code for Hollywood to crack. But never underestimate the power of snappy, ...