TopWknd Box Office
1.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen$108.9M
2.The Proposal$18.6M
3.The Hangover$17.0M
4.Up$13.0M
5.My Sister's Keeper$12.4M
6.Year One$6.0M
7.The Taking of Pelham 123$5.4M
8.Star Trek$3.7M
9.Night at the Museum$3.6M
10.Away We Go$1.7M

Film Reviews

The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) ★½

In its purest form, the relationship between actor and director can be a sacred thing--a symbiosis that yields transcendent results.  ...

Bronson (2009) ★★★

Since 1975, Michael Peterson, later dubbed Charles Bronson after the "Death Wish" star, has been England's most explosively unstable and ...

Home (2009) ★★★★★

"In 200,000 years on earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly 4 billion years of ...

Land of the Lost (2009) ★★★

After Will Ferrell's surprisingly adept foray into the realm of straight-faced cinema with Marc Forster's "Stranger than Fiction" (2006), I ...

Drag Me to Hell (2009) ★★★½

Remakes, reboots, re-imaginings, sequels and prequels dominate modern Hollywood.  America's mainstream film culture is in such dire need of ideas ...

Up (2009) ★★★★

Pixar Animation Studios is a dazzling anomaly--a brilliant aberration on the drab and dour landscape of mainstream, commercial cinema.  Creatively ...

Tyson (2009) ★★★★

Two-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Mike Tyson, is one of the most controversial, ferocious, reprehensible, strangely compelling, unknowable, ...

DVD Reviews

Notorious (2009) ★★½

Here it is, my first review of a DVD, and what do I choose?  “Notorious”! Why you ask? Well, I don’t exactly have an answer. The best I can come up with is to blame Netflix for having too many choices. Another victim of a last minute queue update.
“Notorious,” starring Jamal Woolard, is the life [...]

Trailers

Couples Retreat Trailer

Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love star in Universal Pictures’ upcoming comedy Couples Retreat. Based on an original idea of Vaughn’s, the comedy follows four Midwestern couples who embark on a journey to a tropical island resort. While one of the couples is there to work [...]

FilmCast

TMA FilmCast #14 – The Taking of Pelham 123, Home

John Travolta. What a guy. This enigma of an actor has been in some of cinema’s all-time greats (”Pulp Fiction”) and all-time embarrassments (”Battlefield Earth”). And in each endeavor, he seems unable to just simply look like a normal human being. So, in light of our feature review this week, “The [...]

Under the Radar

A Fantastic Journey: Dissecting Roger Corman’s ‘The Fantastic Four’

Under the Radar is a weekly column written by The Moving Arts Film Journal’s resident expert on schlocky cinema, Greg Kita, that focuses on B-movies, cult classics, genre films, and low-budget flicks–Hollywood’s neglected step-children. Read more at our columns page.
Throughout the history of cinema, the world has been graced with box office hits and timeless [...]

Lists

Will Ferrell’s 5 Best Performances

Comic genius, Will Ferrell, has become something of a lightning rod over the past few years.  His several gems have been slightly overshadowed by a string of recent sub-par films.  But regardless of the overall quality the film, Ferrell’s scenes always seem to hit the right notes.  So, I’ve compiled a list [...]

Festivals

‘Fuel’ Featured at Tallgrass Third Thursday

WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA) and the Tallgrass Film Festival will presents the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary Audience Award winner, FUEL, as the Tallgrass Third Thursday selection for July. The film investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy. It will screen at 7 p.m., [...]