Here’s the first movie trailer for writer/director Vincenzo Natali (Paris, je t’aime): Splice, starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley. Official synopsis: Two young scientists (Brody and Polley) achieve fame by splicing human DNA with the DNA of different animals to create a new creature. In the process they ignore their society’s ethical [...]

If you were to repossess this movie’s stolen parts, there wouldn’t be anything left but a handful of good performances gasping for breath in a pool of half-written ideas. Still, Repo Men is a reasonably fun time at the ol’ cineplex.

What can be said really about Our Family Wedding that its previews don’t already cheerfully display? One more in a long line of nuptial nightmares where two diverse families spar with one another, OFW at least presents the context a little differently; the bride’s family is Mexican American and the groom’s African American. America Ferrera(Ugly [...]

We would like to invite our faithful readers and local Baltimorons to an advance screening of OUR FAMILY WEDDING, a new film starring America Ferrera and Lance Gross.  The promo screening will be on Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm at a local Baltimore theater. Synopsis of the film: “Our marriage, their wedding.” It’s lesson number [...]

PHILIP BARRETT: What’s ironic about Where the Wild Things Are happens to involve a conversation I had with fellow critic Anders Wright of San Diego’s City Beat before the film. I kindly asked him what his expectations for the film where. “You know, Philip,” he said, “I’ve learned not to set the bar too high [...]