Imagine that you found a 12-year-old boy who had just watched The Beastmaster on HBO in the middle of the night and thought it was awesome, and you gave him $30 million or so to make his own movie.

We can all understand the desire to get another chance at something, another chance to do it just a little bit better.

If you have seen any of director Zack Snyder’s films, such as 300, Watchmen or the Dawn of the Dead remake, then you know that he isn’t a particularly subtle or timid filmmaker.

I knew Humphrey Bogart was cool practically before I knew who Humphrey Bogart was.

The premise of Battle: Los Angeles—a grunt’s-eye view of an alien invasion—was initially an intriguing one that seemed like it could breathe a little life into a genre that needs it, but the execution is pretty dire. In trying to combine Black Hawk Down and Independence Day, the filmmakers have utilized the most tiresome parts of both of them. The film has some exciting action sequences, but remains largely inert under the weight of all the clichés.

An old-fashioned romance and a paranoid conspiracy thriller may not seem like the likeliest of combinations, but the new film The Adjustment Bureau takes a sci-fi premise that raises existential questions about free will vs. predestination and turns it into what may be the sweetest movie ever made from a Philip K. Dick story.

The new supernatural thriller Drive Angry opens with Nicolas Cage chasing down a bunch of bad guys in his muscle car, killing them and then blowing up their car for no particular reason. So, that’s what kind of movie this is, and how much you will enjoy it will depend largely on your appetite for amped-up exploitation nonsense.

With both Black History Month and the Academy Awards behind us, Thursday’s Alabama Theatre premiere of The Barber of Birmingham, a film by Robin Fryday and the late Gail Dolgin about civil rights activist James Armstrong, might seem a trifle anti-climactic.

It seems like if a movie is called Unknown, then the plot should be genuinely mysterious, but this new thriller, despite being a slick and fastmoving piece of entertainment, features a plot that manages to be both ludicrous and not that difficult to predict.

British actor Jason Statham is perhaps the most believable and interesting action hero we have today. With his pumped-up physique and shaved head, he seems to propel himself through his movies like a