Worldwide grosses are likely the primary reason the Joes earned a second chance at box office redemption, since GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra was a CGI mess of epic proportions with leaps of logic and science that would defy even the most playful imagination using action figures in the yard.  

With The Twilight Saga over and done with, it’s time for Phase Two of the Stephanie Meyer assault on romantic popular culture. Writer-director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca and In Time) would seem to b  

An ambitious counselor (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) with a marriage and relationship consulting firm for wealthy clients struggles within the confines of the organization and under the strain of her own  

Garrett Hedlund is going to be a star. The last time I felt this way about an actor in a less than stellar spotlight was after catching Heath Ledger in the double feature of 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight’s Tale.  

What’s your favorite film? It’s the first question people ask as soon as they find out what I do for a living. There’s a bit of awe in the question, mixed with a challenge.   

Admission ropes that sensibility closer to the mainstream with Tina Fey as a Princeton admissions officer eager to take over the program, but she ends up supporting a risky underdog (Nat Wolff) from an alternative school who might be the child she gave up for adoption when she was in college.   

What happens when a sassy drag queen (Alan Cumming) and a buttoned up lawyer (Garret Dillahunt) seek to gain custody of a young man (Isaac Leyva) with Down syndrome who has been abandoned by his drug-addicted mother?  

The world is a-changing and, like the times, it can get a little testy and tempestuous, so it’s time for the cave dwellers to adapt or die off.   

First, there was the superhero craze, then the fixation on undead creatures (especially those caught up in teenage angst) and now it seems that the latest Hollywood trend is on White House attacks.   

In a dreamy bit of voiceover narration at the start, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) tells us, “We are not responsible for what we have come to be.”