• The Dude Reviews “Zero Dark Thirty” (No Spoilers Here!)

    The Dude Reviews “Zero Dark Thirty” (No Spoilers Here!)

    What you are watching is a visceral hunt, not a conventional thriller, made all the more impactful with the way it integrates real footage from various terrorists attacks spanning 9/11 to 5/1.

  • Get the Inside Scoop On “This Is 40″ Before It Premieres This Weekend

    Get the Inside Scoop On “This Is 40″ Before It Premieres This Weekend

    Look, I am so excited to see this movie because I’m convinced that any Rudd/Apatow production is the next closest thing to perfection. Paul Rudd is seriously so damn cute.

  • Reasons Women Will Love Marvel’s The Avengers

    Reasons Women Will Love Marvel’s The Avengers

    What you’ll take away from the film aren’t the explosions resulting from an alien invasion, it’s the explosions of personalities colliding and finding ways to not just co-exist but connect to one another. Ladies, let me give you the rundown of “must-see” reasons that this film is for you.

  • Movie Review: Hollywood Sex Wars

    Movie Review: Hollywood Sex Wars

    You guys. Last week, I watched the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen. I knew when I saw huge boobs within the first few minutes of the movie that I was in for a bumpy ride. Hollywood Sex Wars is about a few guys who are sick of sleeping with “busted” women (which from what I gathered meant real looking women).

  • Now Showing: Fast Five

    Now Showing: Fast Five

    My guy friends convinced me that I needed to go to a midnight showing of Fast Five in IMAX. Not my typical genre of choice, but I was pleasantly surprised with the film. Unfortunately, the projector broke before the end, so I can’t tell you how (allegedly) awesome the final car chase scene was. But I can tell you how cool it was to watch everyone in the theater throw cups at the screen…

  • Now Showing: Insidious

    Now Showing: Insidious

    In Insidious, two parents are forced to cope with strange and supernatural occurrences that follow one of their three children’s mysterious comatose state. The film starts out strong, and even superior to most modern horror films. Unfortunately, due to lack of risk-taking, unoriginality, and a bizarre turn in the second half, Insidious falls into the realm of C-grade horror films.

  • Now Showing: The Adjustment Bureau

    Now Showing: The Adjustment Bureau

    In The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon plays David Norris, a politician who falls for a dancer (played by Emily Blunt). Norris accidentally discovers that the world is run by a group whose job it is to keep everyone on their own life path; this “Adjustment Bureau” manages everyone’s fate.

  • Now Showing: Cedar Rapids

    Now Showing: Cedar Rapids

    I’ll be the first to admit that I’m tough on comedies in general. In fact, I seem to be getting a rep as a movie snob… (See: Easy A and No Strings Attached). But at the end of the day, all I really want is a comedy that will respect its audience. I think Cedar Rapids is the perfect example of that.

  • Now Showing: No Strings Attached

    Now Showing: No Strings Attached

    When I groaned after No Strings Attached ended, my friend turned to me and said, “If you hate romance, don’t go see romantic comedies!” And those who have read my reviews before probably already know that I’m not a sucker for romance. So you would think that I might enjoy a comedy about platonic sex buddies Emma and Adam (played by Nathalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher).

  • Now Showing: The Tourist

    Now Showing: The Tourist

    In, The Tourist, a mysterious woman named Elise (Angelina Jolie) diverts the attention away from her actual criminal boyfriend by using an American tourist in Italy, Frank (Johnny Depp). She meets Frank on a train and pretends to be married to him in order to divert the attention of the police and the mafia. The trailer wants you to believe that it’s more complicated than that…but it isn’t.

  • Now Showing: Black Swan

    Now Showing: Black Swan

    Black Swan is a psychological thriller starring Natalie Portman as Nina, a perfectionist ballerina who is cast as the Swan Queen in her company’s performance of Swan Lake.

  • Now Showing: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

    Now Showing: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

    Disclaimer: Many Harry Potter fans sit in the theater picking the movie apart in terms of being an accurate adaptation, but I believe the film should stand alone as a part of its own art form, which is first and foremost a film, not a book.

  • Now Showing: Due Date

    Now Showing: Due Date

    All I want to do right now is compose a love letter to Robert Downey Jr. Instead, I have to slaughter his new movie, Due Date, so that you lovely people don’t waste your money on it. But afterward, I fully plan on writing a Taylor Swift-esque ode to an aviator-clad Robert Downey Jr.

  • Now Showing: Paranormal Activity 2

    Now Showing: Paranormal Activity 2

    I slept with the lights on after a midnight showing of Paranormal Activity 2, which is saying a lot for a movie that I went into with “Whip My Hair” stuck in my head beforehand. For a long time, I had been predicting that the follow up to last year’s Paranormal Activity would be a more corny, overdone version of the first film (which I loved, even if it made my cry).

  • Now Showing: The Social Network

    Now Showing: The Social Network

    The Social Network isn’t “The Facebook movie,” as I have heard some people call it. The movie poster itself says, “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” This is a film about power struggles, honesty, and the impact of one student’s claim to fame.

  • Now Showing: Easy A

    Now Showing: Easy A

    Easy A is the story of “anonymous” high school student, Olive (Emma Stone). Olive tells her story to her webcam in a monologue-esque tone. Although it is clear that she is addressing an audience, this is very clearly HER story. She explains how her friend Brandon asks her to tell everyone that they had sex so that people would think he was straight.