Push is a troubling film to review.

Somewhere within Orphan lies a horror movie destined for greatness.

In some years, this part of the summer can be a bit of a dumping ground for films that are more or less abandoned by their studios, even more so than September.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington rather impressively feels topical even today, 70 years after it first appeared in theaters.

Let's take a look at the top folks who make us cry and laugh.

The Iron Giant celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, having originally opened August 6, 1999.

The wrong director, a poor screenplay, budget problems, or studio interference can turn the best idea into a mediocre or even outright disastrous result.

Now that the final ten episodes are available to purchase, we can appreciate the entirety of Moore and Eick's take on Battlestar Galactica at our leisure.

In 1998, Wesley Snipes and Stephen Norrington took a throwaway Marvel comic book character and transformed him into an unbelievably kick ass superhero. Snipes more than excelled as Blade; he became him, and audiences responded to the tune of $130 million worldwide and a DVD that is now a cult classic. How well do you know Blade?

The newest comic releases for the week are all right here!

The Back to the Future films capture all of the sides of Robert Zemeckis in an appropriately dizzying way.

This week: Denzel hacks some defenseless drones and Johnny Depp steals Carrot Top's look.

2001 redefined box office behavior...

It was in the fall of 2000 that Cameron Crowe platformed the release of his near autobiographical account of growing up a music journalist in the mid-seventies. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll were all part of the coming of age story that not only covers the bands but the miles between the concerts. A lot can happen out there on tour, and no one is really ever prepared for the journey. How well do you know Almost Famous?

This week on Top Chef Masters Recap: It's one big, chef-y lovefest.

This week: David Mumpower weighs in on one series ending (Battlestar Galactica) and one just taking off (Dollhouse).

As I write this, it is July 16, 2009 at 3:07 a.m. Greek time. I have just returned from dinner with the woman I am leading on and her two friends who are in a relationship.

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

Today, we discuss the Ugly Truth about G-Force. Or something like that. Also, lame twist endings and our upcoming anticipated movies.

Beckham gets fighty, a newspaper gets banned, Holliday gets traded, the NCAA gets sued and the Yankees get a lead. Got it? Here comes yet another edition of our sports week in review quiz.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story made for a great comedic romp. When White Goodman's Globo Gym threatens Peter La Fleur's Average Joe's, Peter and his ragtag bunch of lovable losers look to a playground sport for survival. You may know all about the ramifications of Continuation Rule 113-D, but how well do you know Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story?

Michael, Jim and Karen all interview for a job with corporate, but an unknown detail about the nature of the job causes a big ruckus.

With Harry Potter now in its second weekend, and the last of the hot summer sequel openings behind us, new franchise hopefuls step up to the plate.

Big Brother 11 is just as unpredictable – if not more so – than other editions of the long-running CBS series.

When Michael learns he is being considered for a job at Corporate, he launches an unusual series of contests to find his successor.

The talking guinea pigs led the way on Friday with $11.5 million..

While the Dunder Mifflin employees search for a sex pervert, Michael contemplates his relationship with Jan.

Burn Notice is a clever, fun show, one that dares you to find fault with it as it's so damned charming and entertaining.

With three out of the last four weekends at the box office dominated by an all-hype-swallowing film, we're back to having a grab bag of movies.

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. Identity theft, a jilted lover and an embarrassing watermark boner figure into one of Season 3's best episodes.

This week: A bad haircut, a ridiculous ensemble, a broke Baldwin and an unexpected act of charity. Top it all off with a bunch of new voices and a dead advertising mascot, and you have the last seven days in pop culture. We hope you were paying attention.

What's the best way to ignore how terribly hot it is at the end of July? Watch a Christmas movie, of course!

Do characters in romantic comedies have to be likable in order for the movie to work?

A quick note, addressed to children: you are not scary any more. I'm sorry to have to inform you of this, but it's true.

After an accident, Dunder Mifflin has to undergo Safety Training. Michael takes the exercise to a rather odd extreme.

It's my favorite picture of all time. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest stars Jack Nicholson as a criminal trying to con his way out of jail by posing himself as a mental patient. Inside he forms a friendship with several patients and wages a psychological war with the senior Nurse Ratched.

This week: The Saw guys actually make a movie without Tobin Bell, Peter Jackson trades Frodo for aliens and Madea can just never have enough screen time.

The final part of the Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds series concludes this week.

In some ways, it's kind of hard to be an actor deserving and worthy of audience respect.

There is a lot to be said about The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian in relation to its predecessor, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...

Often, just being given the name of a single character will be enough to identify a movie. Other times, a the name of a movie character's name will ring a bell, but you'll have a hard time putting your finger on the exact source. We're going to test your ability in this area. Given the name of a single character, can you identify the movie the character is from? How well do you know Memorable Movie Character names?

Sex! Money! Violence! This episode of The Office has it all!

The Harry Potter franchise has reached a point where it's most special to fans of the novels. For those of us who have never read the books...

If you're looking for a charming, under-the-radar romcom with fine chemistry from its leads and an entertaining soundtrack, you can't do much better than Music and Lyrics. Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore make for an enjoyable team, starring as a has-been singer and an unlikely lyricist struggling to write a song together. You may know your Buddha's Delight from your Entering Bootytown, but how well do you know Music and Lyrics?

The CFO invites several members of the office to his house for a cocktail party. Awkwardness ensues on many levels.

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

For all the big laughs found in Bruno, there is also an air of comic desperation and awkwardness.

We are all Harry Potter, all the time this week.

Halfway through 1990, one thing was certain – it had been a wacky year at the box office. Spring acted like summer and summer was a true mixed bag of hits and misses.

This week is far and away the best for DVD releases of the year to date.

This week: Tom can't close out The Open, Pacman has an ungodly amount of money, a tennis player has an unlikely excuse and a WNBA star goes to fast. Here comes the All-Star edition of our sports week in review quiz.

To get a better grade in his business school course, Ryan brings Michael in to class. He'd be crazy *not* to do it, right?

The most expensive Harry Potter flick opened at theaters this weekend, and once again, young audiences ate it up, propelling it to the franchise's biggest opening ever over five days.

I'm going to put it out there that this season is easily comprised of the reality show's best crop of contestants since the days of Howie, Janelle and Ivette on Big Brother 6.

Ah, Phyllis' wedding: a blessed event that could only be spoiled by Michael.....

After a pretty astounding $80 million over two days, the Friday tally for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes in at $26.8 million.

Phyllis's wedding day approaches, and the requisite party at Dunder Mifflin takes a rather historical quality.

Seagal appeared in a couple of martial arts action films in the early '90s and he completely re-drew what a martial arts action film could be.

The question is, is this newly minted Emmy nominee a mythology show?

This week on Top Chef Masters Recap: It's my cocktail party and I'll cry if I want to

With Karl Malden's recent passing, it seems the perfect time for AFInity to look at A Streetcar Named Desire.

It was a wild week for female celebrities. They wished for to be well endowed, vowed non-stop nudity in film, were tricked into lesbian kisses, baked naked in the kitchen and were unceremoniously dumped. My goodness! All will be revealed in our review of the last seven days in pop culture. We hope you were paying attention.

The beginning of The Return sees Andy working at Dunder Mifflin, and Dwight working elsewhere. By the end of the episode, neither of these will be true.

The best science fiction pictures tend to be among the most unappreciated on their initial release, and that's not particularly surprising.

It's one of the most clichéd things you can read or hear from the blurb machines who promote movies: "This movie is fun for the whole family!"

$4.5 billion into the franchise, Harry Potter still has a few tricks up his sleeve.

This week, our intrepid columnist looks at one of the staff's very favorite films. If he doesn't like Almost Famous, he will break our hearts. Will he break our hearts?

Sean Connery may have left for the time being, but Bond lived on as played by the rather wooden George Lazenby. In this outing, Bond fights with Kojak, marries Emma Peel and spends Christmas Eve on a mountaintop with a dozen beautiful women. How well do you know On Her Majesty’s Secret Service?

The Dunder Mifflin sales staff pair up for sales calls. Meanwhile, an employee's tardiness raises suspicion.

It's time for a Green Lantern miniseries! Just imagine Ryan Reynolds in the lead role and everything will be fine.

This week: Liam Neeson follows up Taken with another thriller, Avian Flu makes its mark and Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play convincing brothers.

Now we have one of the last "big things" of summer, as sure a license to print money as anything, to start us on the home stretch of the season.

A Dunder Mifflin employee returns from vacation, and a shocking revelation is made about the holiday.

Friday the 13th was released on a peaceful summer day in 1980, spawning a masterfully never-ending franchise and cementing the early '80s as slasher film heaven. So let's journey back to where it all began, and see how well you remember that first long night at Camp Blood.

On-screen chemistry (not simply romantic, but otherwise as well) between a leading couple is a reaction that defies any attempts to create a defining formula.

This week: A Connecticut family gets spooked, Americans land on the moon (in Blu-ray!) and Michael Ian Black does television.

The Hurt Locker is the first war picture I've seen that depicts battle as a glorified addiction.

Greetings from Greece! It is July 9th as I write this intro. I have been in Greece for a full week and have finally gotten around to watching my first movie.

Alas, poor Cedric, Voldemort has finally returned and the wizarding world is on full alert, right? Wrong. The fifth film follows Harry and his comrades as they prepare for a battle with the wizard formerly known as Tom Riddle and deal with the Ministry’s meddling at Hogwarts at the hands of Dolores Umbridge. The lines are clearly drawn and Harry gets his very own version of the Justice League. Plus, there’s a first kiss, a death of a major character, and a paranoid politician. Break out the Fever Fudge, call in sick to work and let’s see how well you know Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

The Scranton branch is alarmed to learn that one of its employees is an ex-convict. When tales of prison life compare favorably to life at Dunder Mifflin, Michael retaliates.

From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex!

It's just the calm before the storm as we await Harry Potter. Still, we can take a little time out to talk about Bruno and I Love You, Beth Cooper.

Since its 1984, The Natural has stood as one of the best baseball movies - and sports movies - of all time. Robert Redford had one of his signature roles in the stoic yet iconic Roy Hobbs. You may know your Bump Bailey from your Pop Fisher, but how well do you know The Natural?

The former Stamford employees arrive at the Scranton branch. With Michael conducting the merger, things go about as you would expect.

Sacha Baron Cohen came back to movie theatres in another B-movie, leaving the Kazakh news journalist Borat behind, and bringing us the gay fashionista, Bruno.

Jan announces that the Scranton branch is closing. As Michael launches an attempt to save the office, unforeseen developments alter the fortunes of the branch.

This week: an unexpected meth ring mastermind, a milestone for UFC and a marathon Wimbledon match. Plus: the completion of a 65-day long baseball game. Here comes our sports week in review quiz.

This season, the producers kicked season 10's simplicity out of their systems by inventing a new twist that, depending on how it runs its course, could lead to some interesting game play.

Sacha Baron Cohen invades theaters again with the outlandish Bruno, and earned $14.1 million on Friday.

Kelly brings the entire office staff along to a Diwali celebration. Michael makes a rather regrettable decision regarding his love life. Meanwhile, the Stamford branch drinks their way through an arduous task.

Somehow, we're halfway through the year and summer movie season.

We move from a cartoon Tom Hanks in Toy Story to a real-life Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan. War is hell, to be sure.

Who's to say what motivates an actor? Why do they chose one role over another? For money? Fame? Awards?

This past weekend, the Michael Mann-helmed gangster film Public Enemies opened against such competition as Ice Age 3 and Transfomers 2.

Dwight puts Ryan through an increasingly odd initiation. Meanwhile, an office chair disrupts life in the Stamford office.

This week: A case of swine flu, a butter face and a Nolte-esque mug shot. Plus: we check in on the slow, steady decline of Lindsay Lohan. Think you had a rough week? The world of pop culture was fraught with all sorts of peril. We hope you were paying attention.

Mythology looks at TV shows that struggle in the ratings, yet the networks find a way to keep them around.

When it comes to a human embodiment of coolness, there's only ever been one name in movies: Steve McQueen.

So okay, for a number of reasons, all of which I'll get to, last night's episode was definitely the most "Top Chef-y" episode of Top Chef: Masters so far.

Director Michael Mann is considered a master of crime dramas (Heat, Collateral). His movies are unabashedly violent and often piercing to the senses.

This week: Mendes' quirky road trip, Allen's annual escapade, and Pfeiffer's historical shenanigans.

Michael mourns the loss of a former colleague, and is annoyed that the rest of the office doesn't share his grief. Meanwhile, in Stamford, Jim and Karen go on a snack hunt.

Woody Allen enlisted the help of Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, his best film of at least this decade. The movie combines sex, affairs, scandal and lies -- all wrapped under the beauty of a Barcelona backdrop. How well do you know it?

This week, DC Comics releases another thing that Alan Moore doesn't get paid for.

Hate Monster J is at it again, this time disparaging There's Something About Mary and The Hangover.

This week: Patton Oswalt gets a black eye, Matt Damon packs on some weight and Megan Fox eats boys.

Public Enemies is the film of choice this week. First, we offered She Said/He Said reviews of it and now Russ brings us this excellent evaluation of the book vs. movie.

My parents have recollections of me at age three chiding them and my older siblings for watching movies upon which the sage critics at TV Guide had bestowed two stars or less.

Dwight conspires with Angela to overthrow Michael's reign over the office. Michael promptly learns of the plan and plans his revenge.

Movies have catchphrases. Sure, these clever turns of phrase have largely been dialed down in the ubiquitous trailer era that lets the characters bring catchphrases to life. Clever marketers still do a great job of summarizing the premise of a film in a laconic phrase or two. Unless you paid close attention to the posters, you probably haven't seen most of these before, but we believe you can suss them out. So, how well do you know movie taglines?

This week's edition of Stealth Entertainment features...Rob Schneider's Big Stan. Seriously WTF?

This live-action remake brings together a great mixture of cultures.

This week: Two oldies get a little better lookin', John Michael Higgins questions his sexuality and Nic Cage saves us from total damnation.

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Or something like that.

Michael and Dwight reunite with Jim at a convention. Meanwhile, Pam goes out on a blind date.

Welcome to Harry's third year at Hogwarts. Your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professors is the enigmatic Professor Lupin and be sure to watch out for Sirius Black, who just escaped from prison. This film prominently featues animagus, patronus, the Dementors, something called the Grim and time travel. So grab either your timeturner or the Marauder's Map, let's see how well you know Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

TiVo: the greatest invention since the wheel...and the wheel didn't help you watch The Simpsons at your convenience.

Surveillance is a slow, bizarre thriller meant to test the audience's endurance.

Between the great Ocean's Eleven and the mistake Ocean's Twelve, director Steven Soderbergh directed two films. One was the experimental Full Frontal, the other was a remake, Solaris.

It's the calm between storms.

Oscar is gay, and no one knows...until Michael outs him in an awkward manner. Meanwhile, Jim tries to adjust to live in the Stamford branch.

Jack Black and Michael Cera are funny actors, but perhaps they’re not so good at picking funny scripts — at least not this time around.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the biggest, loudest and dumbest Hollywood blockbuster since, well, Transformers (2007).

With July 4th falling on a Saturday, the box office was already behind the 8-ball heading into the weekend.

This week: The mayhem of NBA free agency, a chaotic NASCAR ending and a catfight for the ages. Plus: colleges get closer to signing toddlers to letters of intent. Do these ring a bell? They were all part of the last seven days in sports.

BOP wishes a Happy 4th of July to all, but especially to Tim Briody, whose birthday is today (and who writes this column).

Jamie Foxx obviously knows that steadfast, yet unwritten, rule that if you play a real, troubled genius, you will likely score an Oscar nomination and quite possibly take home the trophy.

Remember when action stars actually looked like action stars?

We're going back in time to look at Toy Story, the grand-pappy of all CGI animated films and the movie that set Pixar on its path to being a juggernaut both creatively and financially.

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

This week: Hot bodies, a sneaker theft and true love for a Jonas brother. Plus: Megan Fox issues a new demand. We invite you to wade through the strange brew that was the last seven days in pop culture. We hope you were paying attention.

The two most recent Bond films have been praised for their gritty realism and depictions of an ill-tempered Bond driven more by personal vendettas than a desire to please his superiors.

A few weeks back I wrote about the return of Futurama on Comedy Central and how it and other animated series are what have come to be called “mythology shows”.

The Two Jakes would seem to have been a likely candidate for a film that would be swiftly eviscerated and then writ large in the ignominious hallows of “Unnecessary Sequels.”

This week: Soderbergh's experimental escapades, Biel & Firth try country living, and the foreign film plight

If the AFI 100 Years... 100 Movies list is any indication, people liked Billy Wilder's movies.

A popular and critical darling, The Dark Knight dominated cinema in 2008. Christopher Nolan's dark, complicated tale pitted Gotham's protector against an enigmatic, malevolent foe. You may know your Coleman Reese from your Sal Maroni, but how well do you know The Dark Knight?

Since the 2010s are quickly approaching, we're taking this moment to look back at the decade in review.

After a MAMMOTH Marvel week last week, things kind of get back to normal in the shops. There's a new Deadpool series and Green Lantern has its Blackest Night tie-in hit this week as well.

This week: Ricky Gervais tells a lie, Dylan Walsh terrorizes his family and Roland Emmerich destroys the world... again.

Suffice it to say that there is a reason why studios have decided to release this week's blockbusters, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Public Enemies, on Wednesday.

Combine a wise-cracking sloth, a mopey mammoth, a tiger with questionable motives and a hapless squirrel, and you've got Ice Age. The 2002 family-friendly feature from Fox Animation launched one of the more successful film franchises of the decade. You may know the best way to Glacier Pass, but how well do you know Ice Age?