Planet 51 — Now that Spike Jonze and Wes Anderson have muddied the kiddie pool with their indie sensibilities, parents seeking more conventional family...

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This week, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in the new film Pirate Radio, the story of a ’60s DJ who takes to the seas to broadcast rock music in the...

Some years ago, driven to the brink of doleful and giddy insanity after copious Zimas and VHS viewings of Say Anything, my best friend and I decided it...

Forget Scientology or Heaven’s Gate. Today, the biggest cult in our country may very well be the teeming masses anxiously awaiting the return of...

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 — The 1974 version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is the kind of movie they don’t make anymore, and there’s...

They say love is blind, and while we may find that old axiom falls just short of true in real life, it certainly rules in the land of television and film....