While Grover is loyal and intelligent and even, on occasion, right, he is also the film’s resident black kid, reduced to vernacular and other stereotyping, like being more sexually experienced than the white boy he’s assigned to “protect.” Read more>>

Pop culture misogyny so bad, even men notice it; Hollywood director says out loud that Hollywood actresses are too skinny and Read more

One of the greatest horror classics was “The Wolf Man” (1941), in which Lon Chaney Jr. (son of the silent film icon Lon Chaney) played a hulking, mythological creature known as the lycanthrope or werewolf. So it’s understandable why actor/producer Benicio del Toro (“Traffic,” “Che”) was eager to pay homage in a gothic remake. Read more

We’re barely into February, so there are a lot of 2010 documentaries yet to be released. But I know already that October Country is going to make my top ten list. This haunting first feature collaboration between filmmaker Michael Palmieri and photographer Donal Mosher is magnificent. Read more>>

Revelations about the US government’s realms of secrecy and deceit thirty years ago during the Vietnam War are relevant to considerations of how our current government is behaving with regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Read more>>

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Read more

Vanity Fair can recognize sexism and unfair treatment of women in Hollywood as long as it happened 70 years ago… Read more

D13 Ultimatum is not subtle. It is, instead, boisterous and noisy and in its way, joyous, its political backdrop merely an occasion for more parkour. Read more>>

You know things have gone from bad to worse when John Travolta starts riffing himself, evoking the far better bang-bang days when he was working with Quentin Tarantino and John Woo. Read more

Like most recent films from the Luc Besson producing machine, this one is filled with silly asides Read more>>