“No, not that one, Nana; the other one, with Sherlock.”

It has all the tools for a great movie: a good old-fashioned ’70s-Cold-War-paranoia plot; a roster of fantastic actors and Hey, It’s That Guys, including Colin Firth, Ciaran Hinds, John Hurt, and the dude who …

Watching a lot of movies in a row can scramble the brain, but it can also let those movies reflect on and inform one another. For example, the Oscars Death Race is a time of …

The first hour is diverting, with beautiful costumes and some interesting shot-making, but in the end, the movie tries to do too much and doesn’t pull it off. The last five minutes throw their hands …

(On a not-unrelated note: Can we collectively resolve for 2010 to retire the term “steampunk”? Perhaps the term isn’t as irritating to those who didn’t already live through the style in its “NuRo” incarnation, but …