Movie Reviews & Stories Watching Transformers movies, you can imagine a preadolescent, mulleted Michael Bay lording over other kids’ imaginations, demanding his classmates play the way he wants them to. But he has the c   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Norwegian creature feature TrollHunter is at once a clever parody of the increasingly tired “found footage” trope popularized by The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield and [REC], and a slick thrill   More

Books In the wake of the runaway success of Robert Kirkman’s nearly decade-running The Walking Dead (and the critical and ratings success of its bar-raising AMC TV adaptation)   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The “mind-bending twist” has been a standard feature in thrillers for decades, but it wasn’t until The Sixth Sense spun heads with its final reveal that the twist became a cliché all its own,   More

Featured Stories There’s no greater pleasure on a hot day than plopping down on your favorite bar’s patio and combating the heat while encouraging dehydration with round after round of cold beers and frosty coc   More

Q & A They’re out there. Clawing at your mailbox. Gnawing at your mind as you sleep. Ready to devour you and your family. They have no souls. They have no conscience. The only thing driving them is the   More

Movies & Television Johnny Depp's latest voyage on the sea of diminishing returns wasn't screened by WW press deadlines, but we walked the plank anyway.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesWW Critic's Score: 31
The original Pirates of the Caribbean worked on so many levels because it behaved like its inspiration: a ride. The out-of-the-blue blockbuster was a fun and goofy and full of...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Midway through a battle in the searing Danish documentary Armadillo, the camera suddenly becomes shaky, then virtually still, as if moving underwater. Bullets and debris flash across the screen to a   More

Movie Reviews & Stories If you’re going to base an entire film around a ridiculous practical joke on audience expectations, it’s simple courtesy to let viewers in on the gag. Director Quentin Dupieux does us one better   More

Movies & Television Visionary Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hool director Zack Snyder explores a different kind of hooters. It wasn't screened anywhere near press deadlines, for the usual reason: sucking.Sucker PunchWW Critic's Score: 29 In promoting Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder insisted we should prepare...   More