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If you were to believe the Hollywood pundits, you’d think that people were leery of seeing Valkyrie because Tom Cruise wore an eye patch, that people flocked to see Marley and Me because of Jennifer Aniston and that people stayed away from movies like Seven Pounds and The Tale of Despereaux because of bad weather.

As soon as this wraps and is available on DVD, my life will be complete.

Now I know why we’re having such a hard time fighting the war in Iraq. We aren’t using guinea pigs as soldiers.

To hell with Harry Potter’s battle with Voldemort, critics are now fearing that an economic depression may cast a dark spell over the film franchise.

As part of our Year in Review, we’ve asked our resident DVDologist Brian Gibson to lay down his 15 favorite releases from 2008.

The equivalent of the wallflower you knew in high school that blossomed into a college beauty, here are eleven films that flew under the radar in 2008.

As is customary this time of year, it is my duty (and honor) to present you my list of the Ten Best Films of 2008. And in the past year we’ve seen an interesting range of films, have we not?

This week’s entry may not look look like a French film, but the movie bible (IMDB) says it is, so it is. It’s produced by a French man, directed by a French man, and released by a French production company. It’s also filmed in English and is being released in the US one year after it’s worldwide release.

Need a good laugh for your New Year’s Eve afternoon? Check out the alternate ending for the movie Eagle Eye above, it is good for a chuckle.

Despite the fact that Fox announced this week that intends to delay the release of Watchmen, Warner Bros. continues to release new video. It’s enough to make any fanboy cry…

How do you make a stoner comedy and forget the comedy? Having watched both Surfer, Dude and the DVD’s special features, my guess would have something to do with the cast and crew sampling the ganja used as set dressing a bit too often and succumbing to short term memory loss.

It has been a really slow news week yes, but this should excite the adrenaline junkies among you. A new promotional video for Crank 2 has dropped on the web.

Brian Gibson loves to buy DVDs. Come with him on his weekly journey into the depths of credit card debt as he tells you what to buy, rent and avoid.

The 2008 film season brought us beauty in both traditional and unconventional ways. While there has been an argument that leading ladies are few and far between, I think there’s a strong case to be made against that. This list of ten female figures will hopefully offer proof of that.

We Rejects love our action and we sure as hell like watching men, women, monsters, and superheroes whip the crap out of each other on the big screen. Here are our favorite fights of 2008.

It is time once again for a special edition of the Reject Report, the 2008 Year in Review! This is our final look at 2008’s box office winners — and our final chance to roast some of the losers.

The apocalypse is upon us. Pixar is releasing a new film in 2009 and it’s not about a superhero, fish, toy or robot. Take a moment to breathe and check out the new picture from Up.

Forget the Best and the Worst of 2008. These are the actors, directors and producers that made the biggest impact on the world of film and how they might impact us in 2009.

The Warner Bros. production of Watchmen directed by Zack Synder was supposed to open March 2009. But that plan is now in jeopardy.

The first trailer for the upcoming actioner Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li might not speaka any English, but it certainly speaks to a part of me that loves fun kung fuey action.

I’ve been tasked with presenting the Top Ten Foreign Films (and while you may think that some of my choices are mistaken as well, you would in fact be mistaken). You may also notice that it differs substantially from other foreign film ‘best of’ lists…

The official UK site for the upcoming horror comedy Lesbian Vampire Killers has published the film’s first teaser trailer. And while it is quite short and doesn’t explain much, it’s still fun.

The year of 2008 will most definitely not be remembered as a great year for horror, but that didn’t stop us from trying to pull together a list of the best of what was offered.

Empire has debuted a few official photos from the Egypt set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as part of their upcoming 2009 preview issue. And as we might have expected, none of the shots include any actual robot action.

Looks like January is the month of Frights with 12 horror films being released, compared to an average of 2 in October? Well if you think our resident rage-aholic is okay with that, you’ve never read this column.

Thomas Jane is currently in post production on at least two films, one of which he’s directing. For most actors that would be enough for one calendar year, but Jane apparently likes to work. A lot. So his 2009 has just gotten even busier…

Since I know that so many of you received Blu-ray players for Christmas, I am expecting to see plenty of feedback in the comment area below this week as we run through the post-Christmas BD releases.

We continue our jaunt through the world of film in 2008 by taking a turn for the worse — toward the bottom of the barrel. For every great movie there are at least ten bad ones released in a given year, and 2008 was no exception.

It is time once again for the FSR Year in Review, our annual week of lists and recaps, counting down the very best in film for the year. We begin our quest with the place where most cinematic journeys start, with a great movie poster.

How (puke-colored) green was our valley in 2008? I offer ten instances in film that did not live up to a certain amount of hype, didn’t get the credit they deserved, or just flat-out disappointed the general public.