Released twenty-five years and five versions after the original theatrical run, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut still feels almost incomplete to me somehow, as if it's still missing something essential — but is that simply me imposing my knowledge of the filmmaker and the number of times he's tweaked the film onto it?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button gives its audience many, many bits and pieces of information which never connect, never quite come together into anything resembling a cohesive whole; in fact, the entire notion of causation seems to be almost entirely absent from the movie.  Things happen, to be sure, but not for any reason. [...]

I read a discussion of Up recently — I don’t remember where — which said that the movie was ultimately about acceptance of death, which is an awfully adult theme to find in a kids’ film. (Truth be told, of course: Pixar movies are family movies, not kids’ movies, and there’s a big difference.) I [...]

Welcome to the first installment of yet another new ongoing series I just now thought up: Ten2One, which is, in all honesty, just a fancy handle for a fairly standard Top 10 list. To kick things off, in honor of the opening of Pixar’s tenth animated feature, Up, I present to you my [...]

Now this is what I want out of a summer blockbuster. Star Trek delivered all of the action, all of the spectacle, all of the emotion, all of the characterization I could have asked for and then some. [1] I found myself immersed in the world, in the stunning visual design and the [...]

Revisit our special 7 Days of Serenity feature from 2005, in which we tried to pump up the 'verse for the big-screen return of Mal Reynolds and crew.