Walt Disney and the director of Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ pulp hero from Mars to the big screen with the big-budget, 3D extravaganza John Carter. Big on effects, grand in scope, the film paints a high-action, pulpy science-fiction saga full of spectacle, beauty and romance with curious underlining father-and-daughter themes. The film struggles to get all its pieces... 

In an age where vampires have become so romanticized that they’ve lost most of the things that made them terrible creatures of the night, it’s refreshing to have a movie that prefers to give the monsters their teeth back. Daybreakers may not be the best movie I’ve seen recently, but it is an enjoyable deviation from the overly romantic approach vampires have been given in books, movies, and television...