To say that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a step up from the first installment of the trio would be a massive understatement. When audiences last left the fictional land of Panem, Katniss Everdeen...

For an alleged “next-big-Hollywood-thing,” Dave Patten has none of the polish or pretense. In fact, he looks more like the bad boy from a preachy TV movie — long hair slung back, crumbs of a Philly...

Raking in a staggering $10.7 million Friday, Malcom D. Lee’s The Best Man Holiday has already exceeded Universal Studio’s expectations for a $17-million-dollar budget film. Though the film certainly...

Trying to see the big picture is a terrible task to take up on an empty stomach. This is the paradox of Spinning Plates, a documentary whose heart risks coming second to its audience’s appetite. It’s...

Creators of biographical films, or “biopics,” are often faced with two overarching circumstances: the vast potential to delve into the world of a public figure, and the possibility of not doing that...

Few things are as wholly satisfying as a big-budget sci-fi movie done right, and Gavin Hood’s big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s beloved sci-fi novel Ender’s Game is just that. It’s a...

Directors who strive to project the most impactful films on cinema screens face a quandary. While film is arguably one of the most powerful art forms — which compels its use as a medium for critical...

Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie is best known for being a member of the seminal improvisation television program Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show was a hit in Britain, where Colin Mochrie first joined...

When Adam Devine was a senior in high school, his parents went away for a weekend. So Devine did what any reasonable high school senior would do: Throw an 800-person backyard banger. When the cops came,...

In recent times, there has been a surge of films illustrating the history of a person or event barely a few years in the past. The Social Network gave the history of Facebook even while the site continues...

If all movies from now on were built solely on Tom Hanks and xenophobia, worse things would have happened. After all, wouldn’t the true story of a soft-spoken New Englander and his brush with foreign...

Justin Timberlake has dominated pop culture for more than a decade with number-one hits, VMA performances and late-night talk show appearances. Ben Affleck is also a hot topic these days between 2012’s...