Legend has vampires as cold, dead beings like Dracula.

Finally. An animated 3-D movie with superb effects, excellent acting talent and a story to match the overblown budget it takes to make one of these.

Writer/director Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is set on an unspecified date and at an unspecified location in the 1940s.

First of all, this black and white classic is not for everyone.

Quantum of Solace. Hardly.

I Served the King of England is a terrific subtitled art film from the Czech Republic’s Jiri Menzel.

Madagascar: Escape to Africa is the sequel to 2005’s Madagascar which is basically a clone of The Wild.

Paul Rudd is Danny Donahue, an unhappy man who can’t quite pinpoint why.

Set in Romania in 1987, 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days is an intense, sobering, difficult story of a woman helping her friend get an illegal abortion.

Frank Caliendo does TV. So how does the movie critic end up with the interview assignment?

If I sent you an email with Zack and Miri Make a Porno in the subject line your server would consider it spam and relegate it to junk mail.

Changeling is based on a true story.

You don’t just watch a Guy Ritchie movie. They are to be experienced.

I love documentaries.

Several cops are murdered in what appears to be a drug raid.

Bill Maher finds religion a deterrent to the progress of humanity.

The Nightmare Before Christmas appeals to the child in everyone from 8 to 80.

It is my pleasure to host Friday evening’s Battelle Film Club showing.

Conjecture, rumor, gossip, theory and insinuation accompany director Oliver Stone’s depiction of the life, times and the first-term of President George W. Bush.

Writer/director Courtney Hunt proves that you don’t need a big budget, or a big star to create a masterpiece.

The Secret Life of Bees is former child star Dakota Fanning’s breakout adult role.

Ian is a sex-obsessed high school kid with low self-esteem. He’s certainly better looking than his geeky babe magnet friend who has to fight the opposite sex off.

Body of Lies never lets up.

In prose, the tragic story of Ernie Davis is inspiring.

Every year, there are one or two films in the old English mold where the main characters live in a damp old castle.

There is no spark left in firefighter Caleb Holt’s (Kirk Cameron) marriage.

Writer/director Fatih Akin connects the lives of six people in a complicated plot beginning with an old man hiring a prostitute and ending with long scene of a man sitting on a beach.

Nice plot twists here and there anchor a slow-moving cross-country thriller on a train.

A friend told me that Greg Kinnear made an appearance pushing Flash of Genius on the TV talk show The View.

Blindness is a disappointment.

My grandmother had a string of Chihuahuas. When one died, she got another.

There must be an unwritten rule that says that characters in a teen film must be preoccupied with themselves, filled with angst and abuse substances illegal to the age group.

Bill Maher doesn’t like religion. He finds it to be a deterrent to the progress of humanity.

The last time we saw Paul Newman we really didn't see him.

Eagle Eye is a common chase movie with an equally common twist.

What the hell happened Spike Lee?

Diehard romantics love Nicholas Sparks' books and the movies based on them.

You’ve seen so many sports movies involving teens that you can write the script yourself.

On August 7, 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit strung a wire between the World Trade Center’s twin towers.

Director James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments first looks at the plight of an uneducated Sunni kid on a dead-end path in Baghdad.

Quiet villainy works.

When I first heard of Ghost Town I thought it might be a Western.

Two friends and two female companions head to a remote cabin to write a horror movie.

Imaginative movie concepts are the proverbial dime-a-dozen.

Righteous Kill has three serious flaws.

The title fits.

The Women is a head-scratcher.

American Teen follows the reality TV formula. A camera crew tracks five teens -- three boys, two girls -- and their friends for 10 months.

Movies are supposed to separate you from reality. Traitor accomplishes the task by immersing you in reality and then insisting it be suspended.

There is nothing wrong with Hamlet 1.