Late in this film, miniature wizard Harry Potter enthuses that his self-appointed army has "something to fight for," implying that his nemesis The Dark Lord causes murderous mayhem on a malevolent whim.

British terrorist threat level set to highest. White House admits bombing Afghani women and children. Bush commutes sentence for FBI scammer and loyal patriot Scooter Libby. Reality sure sets the tone for Die Hard's latest.

Even before it officially opens in thousands of theaters across the country on June 29, Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Sicko” is already impacting the national health care debate.

Delivering his characteristic dark humor and insightful analysis, Michael Moore's latest documentary film Sicko is a searing indictment of the for-profit, insurance-driven health care system.

The much-anticipated third installment in the swashbuckling extravaganza that is Pirates of the Caribbean is here. Just like the Walt Disney ride which it is based on, it's one hell of a rollercoaster - although it's a neverending one at that.

Print and television media coverage of Haiti since the early 1990s has been characterized by disinformation and deliberate omission of facts.

Your friendly neighbourhood vigilante is back. This time, fighting to save New York from a trio of super-villains called Venom, Sandman and the Goblin. But the most important battle that Spiderman faces is with the dark side of himself.

The Page Turner (French, subtitled), directed by Denis Dercourt, is an understated thriller that spins a tale of class-based terror so gut-wrenchingly genuine that this reviewer can not believe it is not marketed as first-rate social commentary.

“The new economic conflict in our society is between creditors and debtors,” Michael Hudson, economic historian, says, in a new documentary film, In Debt We Trust, by Danny Schechter.

If only there were more Republicans like Clint Eastwood. Apart from his transformation from cowboy in Rawhide to spaghetti western star, he has become an award-winning film director and successfully contradicted his political persona.

The German film The Life of the Others (Das Leben der Anderen) has a one-in-five chance of winning an Oscar next week. The film is cleverly written, well directed and well acted. So, why do I hope that it does not win a valuable little statuette?

A young girl arrives with her debilitated pregnant mother in a Spanish hillside garrison of Franco's fascist army to live with her new stepfather, the commander of the outpost. It is 1944, and though the civil war has subsided, armed guerrillas – mostly communists and other freedom and democracy-loving people – still harass the Spanish government forces.

This year, in a rare moment for the Academy Awards, Black, Latin American, and Asian actors and filmmakers will be strongly represented.

Mother nature has given up on humanity. The evolutionary process has ceased, and the world of human beings has become a "failed state." This is the background for Children of Men (directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and based on a P.D. James novel).

As the Scottish nationalists stand poised to take power at Holyrood after 300 years of the UK union, it seems somewhat ironic that this week sees the release of a film called The Last King Of Scotland.

After four years of war, 2006 proved to be profitable for those producing films that question the values of war perpetuated by the lickspittles of the White House.

Winter was the perfect season for the release of "The Good Shepherd" which exacerbated December's icy chill and masterfully depicted the bloodless, emotional vacuity of CIA cold warrior, Edward Wilson.

A sword and sorcery saga, Eragon has all the ingredients to make this another money spinner for it's creator Christopher Paolini, who was only 15 years old when he wrote the original novel.

IN THE publicity material for this documentary about John Lennon, Yoko Ono is quoted as saying: "Of all the documentaries that have been made about John, this is the one he would have loved." It deals with Lennon's life between 1966-76, the decade in which he became politicised and made his very vocal stand against the Vietnam war in 1972.

Not only does it appear that right-wing movie critic Michael Medved lacks imagination, but one also wonders if he even watches the movies he reviews.