Good grief! This horror franchise is eleven years old and still going strong. It’s based on the premise that someone has a powerful premonition of an imminent catastrophe (like a car or airplane crash) and is able to help others escape. Problem is: fate - a.k.a. Death – doesn’t like to be cheated and is relentlessly determined to claim its victims, hunting down the clueless survivors one-by-one. Read more

Fanboys and critics are cruel about the work of directors, but evidently not so cruel as other directors are if Flavorwire’s collection of the 30 nastiest director-on-director insults is any indication. Even the supremely unflappable Clint Eastwood flips one to Spike Lee. Read more>>

Why pay at the box-office for what you can see – free – at home, particularly when the 3D amounts to very little, except for the flying confetti finish? Read more

This prequel, half-Escape (with James Franco as Ricardo Montalban) and half-Conquest, is driven by a heartbreaking performance by a motion-captured Andy Serkis as a latter-day Clint Eastwood, breaking his cellmates out of their very own Alcatraz. Their triumph provides sweet catharsis for those shaken by Project Nim. Read more>>

Gimmicky body-switch comedies like “Freaky Friday,” “All of Me” and “Big,” have become a genre unto themselves. This time, the unwitting anatomy swappers are immature, idiotic, irresponsible bachelor Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and uptight, wealthy, workaholic lawyer Dave (Jason Bateman). Dave and his wife (Leslie Mann) are the parents of three youngsters, including a set of infant twins. Living in Atlanta and improbable buddies since childhood, their lives have obviously gone in diametrically different directions. Read more

Part courtroom drama, part political thriller and part war movie, Granito: How to Nail A Dictator is one of the most compelling. gripping and inspiring documentaries of the year to date. Watching you film, you feel that you’re privy to an insider’s experience in furthering the fight for human rights and justice. Read more>>

The last Marvel origins movie before next summer’s Avengers is faithful but perfunctory, with plenty of ersatz ’40s atmosphere but precious little golly-gee-willikers. Read more>>

Chronicling Gloria Steinmen’s career, mostly through her own on camera candid commentary, Peter Kundhardt’s documentary serves as a tribute to the woman at the center of the women’s movement and as history of that movement and women’s struggles for equal rights. Steinem is down to earth, no nonsense, smart and compelling. Read more>>

When French filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner read Tatiana de Rosney’s best-seller, he was determined to film the Holocaust story, following the connection between a contemporary expat-American journalist in Paris and the Nazi-sympathetic Vichy Regime’s infamous July 16, 1942 Vel d’Hiv round-up and imprisonment of Jews. Read more

Cowboys, bandits and Apaches unite to find their abducted kin in Jon Favreau’s surprisingly smooth facsimile of an old-fashioned western, albeit one starring James Bond and Indiana Jones (or is that Han Solo?), which just mashes up the mash-up even more. Read more>>