What happens when aliens live among us?

According some interpretations, reportedly questionable, of the ancient Mayan calendar, that culture had December of 2012—the exact date is debated, but sometime around the Winter Solstice—set aside for Doomsday.

The power source which runs the title character in Astro Boy, a pint-sized robot superhero who can fly on his rocket-powered feet and has artillery in his hands and elsewhere, is a positive substance called “Blue Matter.” The force that runs the villain, a power-mad president who turns into a rampaging robot giant, is negative [...]

Under a murky sky, in the ruins of a war-ravaged future, humanity carries on in the form of nine tiny, burlap-skinned doll-people. These little homunculi have camera-lens eyes & zippers running up their bellies where they’ve been implanted with human consciousness. They have numbers on their backs, & the last of the line is the [...]

Mike Judge’s 1999 Office Space was about the miseries of being an employee, at the mercy of dimwitted, petty, officious, passive-aggressive bosses. In his new film Extract, which opens today, the ever fair-minded Judge focuses on the miseries of being a boss, at the mercy of dimwitted, petty, officious, passive-aggressive employees. Having managed to spend [...]

Quentin Tarantino has, to put it crudely, some big brass ones. He mixes tones & moods recklessly, & he has such a cocky, consistent vision that the movies hold you, whether you think they should or not.