Prometheus is a multi-layered, fascinating, visually-stunning sci-fi masterpiece. Ridley Scott channels his inner Stanley Kubrick to realize an intelligent, yet exciting and visceral, thrill-ride. The film resides very much in the Alien universe Scott launched in 1979 but it is also very much divergent from that film and its themes. With Prometheus, Scott transports the audience to another world, another... 

Two scientists (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) are leading an expedition to a far off planet after getting the basic inspiration from several cave paintings they’ve discovered in Scotland. Followed by a boatload of crewmembers, the two of them find mysterious artifacts and controls left behind by an alien race that could potentially hold the keys to finding out the sordid and fascinating... 

Snow White and the Huntsman is an exhilarating, visually splendid and surprisingly mature adaptation of the Snow White fairy tale. The film is rich in tone with amazing special effect and esquisite locations, from the fabled mirror on the wall to the castles and forests to the costumes and creatures. Absolutely stunning. Emotionally, however, the film has little to offer beyond the surface conflicts... 

For the first time in all of my years of doing this, I’m not incredibly thrilled with my end of the year list. As usual, there are movies appearing on other people’s lists that I haven’t gotten to see, and unfortunate timing means I won’t be seeing them for another couple of weeks at the best. Rather than hold out on my “Best of” list for 2011 until the point that... 

Ridley Scott may have been playing coy with fans and his new science-fiction film, but the ruse is up. For months Scott has evaded questions about whether Prometheus was related to his iconic 1979 science-fiction entry. As pictures have come out, fans have devoted themselves to the idea that this is a sequel or prequel to Scott’s own Alien. Now the first trailer is out for Prometheus and it’s pretty... 

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... 

Based on the Cormac McCarthy Pulitzer prize winning novel of the same name, the film The Road takes the picture McCarthy painted and puts the characters in motion. Clearly respectful of the original work in making our world look desolated and void of life, The Road challenges the audience to look certain death in the eye and still find a reason to live. At the heart of the movie, the story follows...