This is not a happy time to be a movie fan who no longer gets carded in bars. Take this weekend’s opening of “Thor” on four thousand screens-a release which reflects the industry’s increasing reliance on that forbidden joy of my childhood – the comic book – to justify its existence. Now before I earn the sobriquet of “film snob” … More Details

Well, it’s certainly evident the Oscar show organizers wanted to do something really different this time around. In a year when a movie about the past was competing against a movie very much about the present for top prize, the producers were clearly trying to bridge old and young, the traditional with the tweeters, you might say. Problem was, their … More Details