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I typically save the boiling points for Robert Fure, aiming instead to frame my column as an observation of media rather than a critique, analyzing trends and their meaning in the context of film and television as an intersecting object of commerce and art. But there is something that has been getting under my skin in some films released in the past several months, and it’s the way that Hollywood deals with the subject infidelity.

Dear John never strikes the right balance between a Nicholas Sparks movie and a Lasse Hallström movie.

This week’s Culture Warrior looks absolutely fabulous in that suit.

Michelle Williams to lower her standards from Ryan Gosling to Seth Rogen.

Another 90s video game is being relaunched as a movie franchise following the heels of the 2009 mega-blockbuster “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.”

Fox has beat out Paramount and Lionsgate for the chance to distribute a three-minute trailer.

How much does it cost to purchase Ryan Reynolds in a coffin? Apparently somewhere between three and four million dollars.

The answer to this question, taken literally, is “the love of cinema.” But, of course, nothing (at least, nothing in this column) is ever so simple.

Breaking news: movie producers get the fascinatingly original idea to make a movie about Christ’s death. Why has nobody thought of this before?

Clive Owen replaces Paul Walker in the action thriller, which makes me wonder if Owen was also the second choice for Disney’s ‘Eight Below’

In this week’s fake news, Roman Polanski will be adapting a popular 90s kids’ show.

On Sunday’s Reject Radio and in yesterday’s Culture Warrior, I praised to the heavens Ken Russell’s notoriously controversial film The Devils (1971). And now you can see it, in NYC.

This week’s Culture Warrior helps you fill out your Netflix queue.

In the last ten years, practices of storytelling and spectatorship in television have changed drastically, and, most likely, for good.

Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) was a truly modern cinematic artist with a unique voice, possessing a style that distinguished him from his New Wave contemporaries.

This week’s Culture Warrior is getting its bunker ready for Y2K.

This week’s Culture Warrior says that cinema is the ultimate form of art. And it has nothing to do with ‘Avatar.’ Seriously, it doesn’t.

While 2009 may have been a weak year for movies overall, animated films shined in a way they haven’t in a very long time.

As I reach into my grab bag of critical terminology to describe my reaction to Eastwood’s latest, I come up only with well-worn rhetoric that, nonetheless, fits perfectly to the experience one has walking out of this film: Invictus is disappointing, a major missed opportunity.

This week’s Culture Warrior gives an exhaustive review of the decade that you won’t find anywhere else on the Interwebs.