Nick Schager

SECRETARIAT Horses make lousy protagonists, what with their inability to speak, emote or do much of anything other than run or stand around. No surprise, then, that Secretariat employs its subject as merely a vehicle for a human victory-over-adversity story, which, in this based-on-real-events case, involves owner Penny Chenery (Diane......

STONE Robert De Niro’s alarm must have finally gone off. In Stone, the actor seems more awake than he has been in years. De Niro is Jack, a prison corrections officer who, abandoning all professional and common sense, foolishly screws himself by screwing Lucetta (Milla Jovovich), the wife of the......

GO  LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE Animal Logic, the digital effects studio responsible for both dancing-penguin phenomenon Happy Feet and Zack Snyder phenomenon 300, creates more anatomically accurate, anthropomorphic protagonists and expressionistic landscape panoramas in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Directed by Snyder and......

WHITE WEDDING Generic enough that a stateside remake would require only negligible Americanization, Jann Turner's South African–set White Wedding charts the madcap events surrounding the nuptials of anxious Ayanda (Zandile Msutwana) and her sweet fiancé, Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi), who's valiantly road-tripping across the country with lothario best friend Tumi (Rapulana......