Danny Trejo in Machete Photo: 20th Century Fox My interest in seeing Robert Rodriguez's grindhouse feature (co-directed by Ethan Maniquis) Machete was limited. When the faux trailer accompanied the Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse double…
Thekla Reuten and George Clooney in The American Photo: Focus Features I already saw Roger Ebert has compared Anton Corbijn's The American to Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai so I won't try to pass the thought off as an original, but i…
Chris Brown and Michael Ealy in Takers Photo: Screen Gems There's really no way of confusing what you think Takers will be and what it is. This is a C-level Michael Mann heist film that loses the grit in favor of gloss. It admittedly steals from T…
Ashley Bell in The Last Exorcism Photo: Lionsgate The Last Exorcism is more of an exercise in marketing than it is an actual movie. This low-budget, "found footage" exorcism tale is stamped with "Eli Roth Presents" in hopes of selli…
Photo: Dimension Films Piranha 3D delivers tons of blood, gore and boobs and wastes no time on character build-up or back-story. Before the title card even shows, a minor earthquake opens up an underground lake beneath the fictional Lake Victoria and t…
Pat (left) and Kevin Tillman in The Tillman Story Photo: The Weinstein Co. Amir Bar-Lev's excellent documentary, The Tillman Story, centers on Pat Tillman, an ex-pro football player that gave up millions in the NFL to join the Army Rangers in 2002…
Jason Bateman plays with a cup of semen in The Switch Photo: Miramax Films You could look at The Switch any number of ways. Believe me I have in the course of deciding how I was going to tackle this review. I don't think you need to be a feminist …
Michael Cera in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Photo: Universal Pictures I walked into Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with no idea what to expect. I hadn't seen a single trailer, never read Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novels that inspired the…
Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Ying Yang (Jet Li), Toll Road (Randy Couture), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) in The Expendables Photo: Lionsgate The Expendables is total '80s cheese, with all the blood and gore audi…
Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love Photo: Columbia Pictures Based on the best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love already has its very own built-in audience, the question is whether or not anyone outside of that audience is going to want to …
James Frecheville and Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom Photo: Sony Pictures Classics David Michod is part of the Australian filmmaking group Blue Tongue Films alongside Nash Edgerton and other up and comers such as Spencer Susser and Luke Doolan. It'…
