For a movie that lists three screenwriters, The Darjeeling Limited doesn't offer much of a story. The color-splashed glimpses of life in India provide what entertainment there is.

Gunnarsson's Beowulf and Grendel isn't your English teacher's Beowulf, but it's entertaining cinema and a heck of a lot better than the Zemeckis film.

The new Indiana Jones movie, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls, is a treat for devoted Indy fans, but it doesn't measure up to the other action films in the theaters these days.

This movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis received eleven Academy Award nominations, despite the fact that it's missing a coherent story and has no characters a viewer can identify with.

This film featuring Andy Griffith in the part of a bad man didn't receive the attention it deserved in 1957. It remains a powerful movie, throwing light on ways in which a wealthy elite shapes American politics by manipulating a gullible public.

Atonement, based on a novel by Ian McEwan, got a lot of attention at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremonies. Maybe the book is better.

Diablo Cody, still in her twenties, wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Juno and is now working on a TV project with Stephen Spielberg. Is that a Hollywood story, or what?

Office workers need fairy tales too! After a lifetime of being Miss Goody-Two-Shoes, Tess McGill takes control of her destiny. An early example of identity theft.

Each of the previous Indiana Jones movies was the highest grossing film for its year of release. Number Four may set the same record in 2008.

If you have never heard of the film Idiocracy (2006), it's not surprising. Fox Studios did all they could to minimize publicity for it. Its satire strikes too close to the corporate interest.