At long last, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire arrives on DVD. The saga of Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Steve Buscemi), debonair politician/outlaw and king of Atlantic City in the 1920’s. The pilot, directed by Martin Scorsese, opens on the eve of Prohibition, as party goers everywhere mourn the loss of sweet alcohol and a new era of bootlegging and rum running begins. Nucky’s right hand man and surrogate... 

The Devil Inside is a creepy, scary exorcism film that is undone by its own devices. Director William Brent Bell spends the better part of film’s run-time setting up and executing an entertaining and chilling look at a girl searching for her mother and the nature of her disorder and two priests who may be able to help through the rite of exorcism. Then, suddenly, Bell makes a critical, jarring mistake... 

We all know those people who are never going to grow up or evolve past high school. They’ve become fodder for movies and television, traditionally taking the form of the high school jock whose best days were in high school (see: Al Bundy from Married with Children). As well as they serve as a punchline, that joke wouldn’t work unless there really were people like that. Young Adult takes a more... 

The Darkest Hour may not be the worst movie of the year, but it is pretty damned close. As yet another version of War of the Worlds and its recent cousins (Skyline, Battle: Los Angeles, Monsters, even Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon), this iteration places its American cast in the heart of Moscow during the main invasion. But then the film has nothing new to say or new concepts to show off. The... 

Old school Hollywood filmmaking gets a lovingly crafted homage with Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse. The film is about a horse – surprise – named Joey that influences each owner it encounters in a series of vignettes linked together by the horse’s adventures during World War I Europe. Structured in a manner reminiscent of a Quentin Taratino film (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Inglorious... 

As the story goes, Steven Spielberg discovered a love for Tintin, the Belgian comic book character, after he released Raiders of the Lost Ark and fans drew connections between the high adventure feel of the first Indiana Jones movie and Tintin’s comic book series, which follows a young reporter on unlikely adventures. It’s taken thirty years, but now Spielberg brings an animated version of Tintin’s... 

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns for another installment of the famous Mission Impossible film series (based on the also-famous-for-its generation-television series), this time directed by Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille), this being his first big budgeted, live action feature. In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Hunt and his team are left to their own devices when the President... 

It’s been two years since Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr., and Jude Law teamed up to create a new vision of Sherlock Holmes. Stripped of his polish and refinement, Ritchie’s vision brought a new direction for the master detective, complete with a complicated bromance (a word I suspect Holmes would detest as much as I do) between Holmes and Watson. The real shame of Sherlock Holmes is that now, two... 

Adapted from the Royal Court play “Outside of Heaven,” Seamonsters marks the feature debut of director Julian Kerridge, a graduate of the London School of Film. The screenplay was adapted for the screen by Kerridge and Martin Sadofski (who wrote the play). It recently played in the Narrative Feature Competition at the 18th annual Austin Film Festival. The film gives a glimpse in to the daily lives... 

In the early-appearing song, “Pictures in my Head,” Kermit the frog ponders the concept of the Muppets getting back together to put on a show and poignantly asks, “Would anybody watch or even care?” It’s a good question. A decade has passed since the felt creations last appeared on the big screen, and over twenty years have passed since Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets passed away....