At every film festival, I try to pack in as many screenings as humanly possible (At TIFF this year, I’ve been rather unsuccessful…). This leads to seeing a lot of films you wouldn’t normally watch just because it fits nicely on the schedule between two other films. I call these movies the “nothing better to see movies”.
I’ve had a lot of conversations over the years about the value of a movie critic’s opinion. What many people don’t understand is that a working critic sees a lot of movies he isn’t normally interested in. I believe one of the reasons the divide between mainstream opinion and critical opinion is the fact [...]

Update: Warner Bros Denies Comments
Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new rule that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”, according to DeadlineHollywood. Apparently, Robinov won’t even look at a script with a female lead.
And why has Robinov come around to this new way (Neanderthal, so rather old way) of thinking? Because it is the recent Hollywood trend: Both Jodie Foster’s The Brave One, Emma Robert’s Nancy Drew, Hilary Swank’s The Reaping, and Nicole Kidman’s The Invasion fared poorly at the box office.
So 1 + 1 must equal 3, because The Invasion probably didn’t fail because of the highly documented re-scripts, re-shoots, [...]

In this post-Veronica Mars world, I was immediately drawn to Nancy Drew hoping to fill the now empty void. And as you might expect, the family comedy adaptation of the classic kids novel was not exactly what I was craving or even expecting. But that’s not a bad thing because Nancy Drew is one of the funnest family film I’ve seen in years, aside from may-be the Pixar flicks. Unlike other modern day teen adaptations, it doesn’t try to be “too-cool-for-school”, jam packing a soundtrack with hip new cover songs, and a cast of good looking model-level kids. Nancy Drew attempts to bring the crazy and absurd fun tone of [...]

Okay so we don’t usually post about family movies (outside of the computer generated flicks), but with the future of Veronica Mars in limbo, suddenly the Nancy Drew movie has caught our interest. And plus the sequel is already announced, so we can’t miss this one or we won’t know what’s going on. Check out 17 new photos from the movie below. As always, left click for higher resolution versions. And it you haven’t already, while you’re at it - check out the movie trailer.

Now that Veronica Mars may be canceled (we are still unsure?), all we have to look forward to is the Nancy Drew movie (Movie Trailer). Well fear not, star Emma Roberts has already signed on for a sequel.
In the first film, Teen detective Nancy Drew (played by Emma Roberts) accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles, where she happens upon clues to a murder mystery involving a movie star. Based on the book series created in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer, of which over 200 million books have been sold worldwide.
Producer Jerry Weintraub, director Andrew Fleming and Roberts also announced another family friendly film for Warner Bros called [...]