RECOMMENDED: Attention frat boys: The good news is that, in Woody Allen‘s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson totally dyke out. The bad news — for you, anyway — is that none of it will make it onto Mr. Skin, and for the rest of the movie, you’re sitting in the midst of [...]

RECOMMENDED: We punched about 6 holes in our NerdCard last night and went to the midnight showing of The Dark Knight. No one dressed up, but some kid totally had on a lot of ProActiv and could have been mistaken for the Joker. We had a great time. You wouldn’t think an overactor such as [...]

RECOMMENDED: There’s a lot of reasons we loved The Wackness so much that we’re actually going to go see it again this weekend and paying — whoah! — but the biggest one is this: There may be nothing more sublime than the loop-de-loops Ben Kingsley‘s latter-day career has taken. We love it. We’re obsessed with [...]

RECOMMENDED: Why, they go to see movies like When Did You Last See Your Father? at the Ritz, of course! And lo, I go with them. This tear-jerker starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth is the kind of Mike Leigh-ish meat-and-potatoes English kitchen-sink drama that’s been keeping the Ritz flush with old people for decades [...]

NEW IN THEATERS THIS WEEK: Honestly, we had every intention of hating The Love Guru but when push came to shove… we just couldn’t. Yes, there are more penis/fart jokes in it than a class trip to the proctologists’, and yes, it certainly feels like there’s a lot of recycled Austin Powers shit in here, [...]

I love the work of Anthony Lane, the film critic for The New Yorker, more than I’ll ever love Speed Racer. The Speed Racer movie, the most recent offering by the Wachowski Brothers, was said by Mr. Lane to be not-so-great (though not-so-bad as V for Vendetta). He emphasized his thoughts on the film by [...]

RECOMMENDED: If you must go to the movies and sit inside in the dark when the weather is this fine, then only one movie is really worth the waste of a fine spring day. Planet B-Boy takes a look at breakdancing from its origins in New York to its current status as an international art [...]

RECOMMENDED: We said it before, and we’ll say it again: We will watch ANYTHING that’s about people stealing shit. And this week, we can add another rule to the Philebrity Moviegoing Handbook: We’ll also watch ANYTHING with Michael Caine. We know the risks involved. We’re well aware of what can happen. But look at it [...]

RECOMMENDED: In addition to loving movies about stealing things, we almost love, just as much, the double-crossin’, cheatin’ genre of films. And boasting an ensemble cast that includes Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams and, in an unlikely black comedic turn, Pierce Brosnan, Married Life looks like it has the goods. Set in Mad Men/Far [...]

RECOMMENDED: Not to be confused with the Andre Gide book of the same name, The Counterfeiters is the true story of what is basically the largest counterfeit operation the world has ever seen: The Nazi’s mid-1940s operation which saw them basically fund the war with faked US and UK dough. At the center of the [...]

RECOMMENDED: We appropriately gushed about City Of Men — the sort-of-but-not-really sequel to the towering Brazilan drug epic City Of God – earlier this week when we gave away tickets to a preview screening of it, but it really is so good that we’re going to do it again. The plot: Two dirt-poor Favela teens [...]

RECOMMENDED: It’s a shameful affliction and howling first-world problem that will ruin the Sunday night of many this weekend: Not Having Seen ANY Of The Movies Nominated For This Year’s Oscars. Oh, unless you count Juno, which you ALL saw, but I don’t think that will help you all that much when it comes to [...]

RECOMMENDED: In Bruges is a movie about Belgians, drugs, crime, prima donna GHB-addled dwarves, funny Cockney accents and how much you really, truly loathe Colin Farrell. Farrell (pictured) plays Ray, a thug hiding out in the “fookin’ fairytale”-like city of Bruges after a hit went south with partner Ken (Brendan Gleeson). While the pair await [...]