Tri-Cities theaters don’t see many documentaries. Last year’s Oscar winner Inside Job made it. This year, we got to see the fabulous Buck.

The Big Year is based on Mark Obmascik’s book. The title is apparently a bird-watching term.

Here’s the good news — Kenny Loggins’ 1984 hit song and the film’s theme song is left in the 2011 version.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) is Kate Lloyd, a paleontologist asked to accompany a not-so mad-acting mad scientist on an expedition to Antarctica.

Footloose the remake opens this Friday in the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla and around the nation.

George Clooney is Gov. Mike Morris. He’s a progressive presidential candidate working the primary in Ohio and stuck in a life-and-death battle for his party’s nomination.

Here’s the premise. Set in the near future, Hugh Jackman is a loser robot boxer working fairs and rodeos with a robot destined for the scrap heap.

Battelle Film Club is offering a Liz Taylor double feature: A Place in the Sun and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Anna Faris is the insecure Ally Darling, and relationships never seem to work out for her.

Some are comparing The Guard to the critically acclaimed In Bruges from 2008.

Cancer sucks. That’s a given.

The most important word in the title? Tale.

It’s hard to resist. No baseball puns. No. No. No. America’s used-to-be-favorite pastime is packed with terminology begging for word play.

Kwaidan is the Battelle Film Club's offering this Friday.

I not only have nothing nice to say about this movie, but it also is so bad it is a struggle to say anything about it at all.

Hans Zimmer’s rich, dirt deep score and the Elton John/Tim Rice songs and stunning animation literally transport you from theater seat to the plains and jungles of Africa.

A movie with the title Drive should not be left in "park."

It’s another remake. An anemic one at that.

Warrior focuses on two brothers and their father.

Pandemic movies can go one of two ways.

While in power, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used doubles to give the appearance of being everywhere.

RICHLAND The Yacoubian Building is the second offering of Battelle Film Clubfall series.

When a movie sits on a shelf for a year after the original release date is set it’s usually the kiss of death.

Emphasis. Don’t. That’s “don’t” as in Don’t be Afraid of the Dark.

Paul Rudd is Ned, the idiot brother.

I have the honor of introducing the opening film of the 2011 Battelle Film Club's Fall Series on Friday night. It's The Station Agent.

One Day

Younger audiences, those unfamiliar with the original or that hate the twaddle of Twilight will likely like Fright Night. Hey, no Twilight vegan, goody-two-shoes crap here. At least this vampire sucks.

Conan the Barbarian

On a company team-building outing, a cast of unknowns with the exception of David Koechner (The Office) ends up on a bridge being renovated. Nicholas D'Agosto's character, Sam, has a premonition, panics and everybody piles off the bus. They run for safety, the bridge does a spectacular collapse and everyone lives.

Dan "Buck" Brannaman is the subject of the documentary Buck. My guess is Buck doesn’t use the moniker Dan much. He’s just "Buck."

Movies sometimes make great classrooms.

Jesse Eisenberg — who is always terrific — plays a bright young man whose life is going absolutely nowhere.

I’ve never seen Glee on TV and know nothing about the premise or the cast.

Buck Brannaman isn’t much to look at. He’s just an ordinary cowboy. Boots, jeans, chaps, cowboy hat. The usual.

On a company team-building outing, a cast of unknowns -- with the exception of David Koechner (The Office) -- end up on a bridge being renovated.

The buzz is on. Already The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1's trailer is being circulated on the net and is being seen in a few theaters.

The Tree of Life won this year’s Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

First some history and perspective. We caught two versions of Planet of the Apes. The first in 1968 with Charlton Heston kicked the series off. The other, done in 2001 is from Tim Burton and starred Mark Wahlberg. Heston’s is classic.

The Change-Up can be summed-up in one sentence.

The title looks odd. We aren’t used to seeing a period at the end of one.

The plot is complicated.

First a Belgian comic strip in the 1950s.

It’s an old plot. Two pretty people with perfect teeth, great hair and to-die-for bodies meet.

First, an observation and some questions.

I review movies, thus it is assumed I know about movies, so once in awhile I get to work on a movie.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 picks up exactly where part one left off. Dark Lord Voldemort is holding the powerful Elder Wand skyward. Electricity rips through the dark night.

No pooh-poohing this one. Kids from two to pooh-berty (sorry, couldn’t resist), their parents and grandparents will love this one.

It will take a Zen-like mantra to get most of you through Zookeeper.

The plot of Horrible Bosses is complicated, but getting deeply into it is not that necessary.