I had been rooting for The Blind Side and predicting its inclusion since Thanksgiving weekend. First of all, it's a damn good movie and second of all, it's just the kind of old-school big-studio drama that we don't get nearly enough of.

We never got a sequel to ET: The Extra Terrestrial. We never had to sit through a strained next chapter to Titanic. We never suffered through a film...

It's tough to recommend a film built upon the promise of world-class stunt work and eye-popping action scenes if it fails to deliver on both counts.

Dear John dethroned Avatar at the top of the box office over Super Bowl weekend. Wow... a film's opening weekend managed to exceed another film's eighth weekend.

The world doesn't really need a new Superman movie, but that doesn't meant we wouldn't want one. And a good Superman picture will be welcome with open arms.

As was announced a few days ago, Paramount is fast-tracking a new Mission: Impossible picture for a May 27th, 2011 release date. And I thought summer 2011 couldn't get any more crowded.

An emphasis on character and plot over special effects usually results in a superior film. But with a horror picture, you occasionally do have to deliver the horror goods. Joe Johnston's The Wolfman fails on both grounds.

Pulling in $56 million over three days and $66 million over four, the film scored the biggest Presidents Day weekend in history.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a checklist of everything that could have gone wrong with the Harry Potter series but didn't.

The infamously delayed Shutter Island debuted to smashing business over its initial weekend, as the Martin Scorsese thriller debuted to $40.2 million.

If you get off on seeing Superman pound away at an alternate-universe version of himself, then you'll get quite a kick (and a punch) out of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

The visual style of Tim Burton's filmography has become so consistently aped as to render his own work borderline cliche. He's gone from Hollywood's darkest mainstream maverick to the guy who parents trust to gently scare their kids.

Lionsgate is taking heat for making R-rated trailers and not doing enough to restrict access to young eyeballs. But at least this way, they can be theoretically more responsible and drum up some free publicity.

While I didn't care for Shutter Island one bit, I am heartened that a moody, complicated, 2.25-hour, non-sequel, R-rated thriller from Martin Scorsese is a genuine smash hit.