2008 theatrical releases

I hate to say this — partly because I don’t want it to be true and partly because it’s such a terrible pun — but could the zombie movie finally be dead?

I’m so tired of hearing myself complaining about these movies that I may just give it up.

If you’re expecting more of the gorgeous, ugly luminosity of 2002’s ‘City of God’ — Fernando Meirelles’s astonishing film about life in the desperate slums of Brazil — don’t: you’ll only set yourself up for disappointment.

There are a bunch of theories floating around the fanboy — and fangirl — Internet purporting to explain why ‘Penelope’ is only getting released in theaters now. It did, after all, make its debut all the way back at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival…

Some people are just meant to be movie stars — they’ve got that indefinable It that makes them glow onscreen, that makes them impossible not to watch.

Oh my God it’s like ’24’ on speed. ’24’ on *acid.* It’s insane, and preposterous, yet not unentertaining, in its own uniquely goofy and ridiculous way.

If a good rule of thumb is that the average generation clocks in at around twenty-five years, then it’s almost too delicious to note that 22 years after ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ — the definitive Gen X high school movie — comes the next great, generation-defining high-school hero.

Bad things happen when you leave the city. Like you discover that the creepy old house you inherited is surrounded by goblins enthralled to an evil ogre, the house itself is home to a goofy brownie who hulks out into a boggart when he gets angry, and more.