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.

Writer/director Guy Ritchie’s high-octane, revisionist version of Sherlock Holmes has definitely proven itself successful. It raked in close to $470 million while the never-ending money monster Avatar was still devouring box offices at its peak, and it has already helped inspire studios to greenlight sexy, more action-oriented versions of other classics such as Treasure Island [...]

Here it is at last: the last Heath Ledger performance that the world will ever see. This performance is encased within a meticulous and frantic dream world, cobbled together by the half-mad Terry Gilliam and complemented by the addition of three generous performers who stepped in after Ledger’s death. For fans of Gilliam, the movie is [...]

The best surprise behind Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is its ultimate faithfulness to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s titular detective. While the new film is certainly more action oriented than previous iterations–there’s very little of Basil Rathbone’s tweedy Victorian here– it gets the intellectual and physical energy of Holmes right. Despite a few out-of-place cgi sequences and an [...]

Director Terry Gilliam’s latest feature from Sony Pictures Classic comes a mysterious yet mystical tale known as The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Starring the late Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, this story is about a traveling theater company that goes through parrallel worlds in order to rescue the doctor’s daughter. Here [...]

We’re still three months away from the release of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes this Christmas, but you better believe they’re already cooking up the next entry in the series. Warner Bros. is in talks with Kieran and Michele Mulroney, a husband and wife screenwriting team, to begin work on a sequel. It’s strange that no [...]

Guy Ritchie’s latest cinematic romp comes in the form of one of the most loved and suave British mystery solvers in fiction, Sherlock Holmes. Jumping onto the big screen Christmas Day, Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat [...]

Though played to mixed reviews at Cannes, Terry Gilliams’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has one thing going for it: Heath Ledger’s final performance. Sure…part of the film is faux-Ledger mixed with CGI, “movie magic” Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell, but the late actor is there. Somewhere. In the present day, immortal 1,000-year-old [...]