If you haven't yet heard about American Gangster, you're probably living under a rock (or maybe just in Hill). The film's hype and star power (not to mention Jay-Z's decision to make a concept album based on it) set expectations high.
Is there a particular message people will get out of this?
There is a message that I tried to install in there, but I don't think people are getting it.
Adapted from a novel by David Gerrold, Martian Child aims to please with its amiable eccentricity, but ultimately falls short due to the filmmakers' meddling with the original story.
John Cusack plays David, a widowed science fiction writer who decides to adopt a young boy, Dennis (Bobby Coleman), who truly believes he is from Mars.
It's a little disconcerting to hear Jerry Seinfeld's voice coming out of an animated bee's mouth, but after a few minutes of Bee Movie, you'd swear you were watching Seinfeld.
God bless Neil Young. At 62, he's as earnest as ever - supremely confident in his well-worn niche. In 2007, it takes some kind of self-assurance to sing, without a hint of irony: "I'm just a passenger / On this old freight train."
For the last 40 years, Young has alternated with almost stunning regularity between country-inflected acoustic ballads and gritty electric numbers.
Robert Walter is reluctant to call himself a jazz musician. As a solo artist and member of the soul-jazz act Greyboy Allstars, the organist/keyboardist/pianist pits himself as on the cutting edge of the scene, fusing traditional jazz with funk, rock, and dance.
With bombs falling in Iraq, tensions rising with Iran and Russia and the stock market at its shakiest in years, what would be a better album to bring back than Rage Against the Machine's controversial, self-titled debut album?
This film - indie filmmaker Peter Hedges's follow up to Pieces of April - tells the story of Dan Burns (Carell), a widowed advice columnist having a tough time following his own advice.
In the mood for mutilation this Halloween?
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Though this is a parody from across the pond - think Dawn of the Dead meets Harold and Kumar - British comedians Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright know how to splatter their way into movie history.
Led by frontman and renowned narcotics addict Pete Doherty, Babyshambles' new record, Shotter's Nation, is pleasant enough, but ultimately forgettable.
Gavin Hood's follow-up directorial effort to the Academy Award-winning Tsotsi is all too reminiscent of the post-Oscar pitfalls often found in Hollywood.
An extravagant treat for history buffs, this sequel to the 1998 Academy Award-winning film Elizabeth reunites the Australian-born acting duo Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush for another great performance.
Wes Anderson is a director of details. Of course, he's more than that; his past films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic are works that celebrate the quirkiness of dysfunction.
There hasn't been much happening in the Balkan indie music scene since we last heard from Beirut. In 2006, their stunning debut, Gulag Orkestar, impressed listeners with its unconventional Eastern European sound, erupting from a massive horn section.
Radiohead, the critically acclaimed, genre-bending rock act, is homeless. Not literally, of course - you won't find Thom Yorke begging for pocket pence outside the Tube.