Joe Scheffer (Tim Allen) is a loving father, a dedicated 10-year corporate employee and all-around nice guy.
But that’s his problem.
Because he doesn’t quite fit the mold, he’s passed over for a long-promised promotion, gets dumped by his wife and gets beat up by workplace bully Mark McKinney (Patrick Warburton) in front of his daughter (Hayden [...]

“I had to find a story I wanted to tell,” director Michael Mann recently said of “Ali.”
“On one level, the story is simple: A man wins the heavyweight championship; his title is unfairly taken from him. He struggles to overturn his conviction, and he begins a quest to regain his crown. However, he discovers that [...]

When producer Brian Grazer read that Vanity Fair article about John Forbes Nash Jr., he must have known he was holding Oscar gold in his hands.
A genius mathematician from West Virginia, Nash distinguished himself and revolutionized economics with his analysis of equilibria in noncooperative games. But that’s not the real meat of the story.
A diagnosed [...]

In David Fincher’s, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s, David Cronenberg’s or even the late Stanley Kubrick’s hands a remake of “Abre Los Ojos” (1997) might have had a chance.
With Alejandro Amenbar and Mateo Gil’s mind-bending material – it questions what’s real and what’s a dream – and a director’s unique vision, the result could have rivaled “Jacob’s Ladder” [...]

“The Majestic,” a Frank Capraesque drama set in 1951, has arrived just in time to warm holiday hearts and benefit from patriotic stirrings.
It’s the “feel-good movie of the season.”
Just as he gets a shot at writing a mainstream Hollywood film, writer Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) finds himself labeled a communist by the House Committee on [...]

One ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to Bring them all and in the darkness bind them, in the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.- J.R.R. Tolkien
When “Star Wars” came out, I was almost 8 years old.
Watching the events unfold, I was too young to grasp the importance [...]

Where do you begin critiquing “Not Another Teen Movie?”
Do you talk about how mind boggling it is that it took five writers to completely plagiarize a slew of other films? Do you marvel at how making good comedy is becoming a lost art? Or do you simply shake your head, mutter to yourself something about [...]

Who is the hipper cat, Frank Sinatra or George Clooney? Who’s easier on the eyes, more fun to watch: The Rat Pack with Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, or the Suave Pack with Clooney, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon?
That’s what you might debate with yourself when you watch director Steven [...]