In the eleven years since it premiered, Futurama has only seen six years of production. Cancelled in 2003 after four seasons, the show was relegated to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, where it survived on a diet of syndication and DVD sales until 2007. Somewhere in that span, the internet spawned a fan upheaval of epic enough proportions to warrant more episodes, not unlike the ruckus caused by Family Guy’s audience that brought the return of that show a few years back. Enter Comedy Central with an agreement from 20th Century FOX to produce four straight-to-DVD films—and an all-new, bona fide season.

The best animated movie so far this year is, without a doubt, Toy Story 3, but while that movie was never less than satisfying, it was also at times quite emotionally grueling. Despicable Me doesn’t have that problem. As it begins, the movie’s odd subject matter makes it look like it might be a little weirder and more unpredictable than most cartoons, but the movie quickly turns pretty conventional. Luckily, while it can be predictable, the film is also very funny and very sweet.

The action-comedy has become quite popular in recent years, but it is a tough genre to pull off. You have to strike just the right balance, make sure that there is enough humor, and that it works, while also not skimping on the action. That is a difficult balance to achieve, and considering how obvious it is that Knight and Day is a very carefully constructed attempt to show that Cruise and Diaz are still superstars, and can still do fun and exciting films, it is amazing that the film works at all.

I absolutely loved The A-Team TV series when I was a kid. My little brother was born when I was six years old. I was in the waiting room at the hospital watching an episode of The A-Team when the doctor came in to tell me I could meet my new brother, but I wanted to stay and finish watching the episode instead. You could say that I am inclined to like an A-Team movie, but I was kind of dreading it. Even as a wee lad, I was aware that the storytelling in the show wasn’t exactly sophisticated. Luckily, the film version embraces the show’s silliness, delivering an action-packed movie that is fairly empty-headed, but is always lots of fun.

“A myth,” wrote everyone’s favorite sixth-century scholar, Stephanus of Byzantium, “is something that never was but always is.” He might have been looking ahead to the Robin Hood franchise. From the 12th century, when the early Robin Hood ballads and folk plays started to gain popularity, to Ridley Scott’s new epic film Robin Hood,.

The film is set in sixth-century Persia, where a street urchin named Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) is adopted into the royal family as a child after King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup) sees an impressive display of Dastan’s bravery in the city square.

When I was a child, Freddy Krueger was both my favorite horror movie icon and the only one ever to give me nightmares. He had more personality than Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers and cruelly toyed with his victims before finishing them off. Of course, paradoxically, that personality became the series’ biggest liability as it went on. Freddy became both a cultural icon and the hero of his own series, a sort of undead stand-up comedian we were supposed to root for instead of a chilling figure of pure evil.

The most popular trend in action movies these days is to edit the film into incomprehensibility, squeezing out any kinetic thrills the film might have while chopping the movie into a mash. The new fil

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are two of the most beloved and accomplished comedians we have today, but they’re not miracle workers. The makers of the new action comedy Date Night seem to want to rely on

Early in the new remake of Clash of the Titans, the hero finds Bubo, the clockwork owl that provided comic relief in the 1981 original, asks, “What’s this?” and tosses it aside. That is a pretty good