The last time Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet got together, they collided with an iceberg. In “Revolutionary Road,” their first pairing in the 11 years since “Titanic,” they ARE the iceberg. The movie, unfortunately, is the sinking ship.

Ever hear of a “MacGuffin”? It’s the thing in a story that everyone is after, and therefore drives the plot. Alfred Hitchcock coined the term, if not the concept.

Blu-Ray may be on the rise, but those DVDs on your shelf still have plenty of life left. Here are the best discs I watched in 2008 — consider them all highly recommended for rental or purchase.

Based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, the movie follows a man (Brad Pitt) through the 20th century as he ages backward.

Darren Aronofsky’s ``The Wrestler'' is a devastatingly poignant look at not just an athlete, but a person who – like all of us – is suddenly coming to the realization that he’s no longer what he used to be.

Clint Eastwood, channeling Dirty Harry, plays a cantankerous, racist war hero whose once-affluent neighborhood becomes home to Asian immigrants.

Tom Cruise as a Nazi colonel who leads a band of conspirators trying to blow up Hitler. Hig-powered co-stars include Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh and Bill Nighy Terrence Stamp and Eddie Izzard.

When director Darren Aronofsky introduced a packed-house advance screening of “The Wrestler” at the Toronto International Film Festival a few months ago, he seemed a little shell-shocked when he referred to it as “a gentle, small film.”

Two movies this week: One very funny; one very, very serious.

If Christmas at your house is anything like Christmas at my house, you can't remember a year that didn't involve watching at least one screening of 'A Christmas Story' — and sometimes several in a row.

Two very different movies were chosen as the best by the Boston Society of Film Critics during the society’s annual voting on Sunday.

Few films gather heaps of praise in equal measure from critics and the public alike. "Slumdog Millionaire" is one of those films. The public right now doesn't constitute the masses since the movie isn't being shown in all the suburban megaplexes. Yet. That situation should change once major awards begin coming its way, and they already have.

Take a look at Jim Carrey’s resume: stupid comedy after stupid comedy (“Ace Ventura,” “Dumb & Dumber,” “Bruce Almighty,” etc.), punctuated by terrific dramatic performances (“The Truman Show,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”). He’s a great comic actor with surprisingly effective serious leanings. At this point in his career, you really can’t be sure about what you’re gonna get from him.

As a comic book fan, I’m (a) excited when a superhero movie gets made, (b) thrilled when it’s good and (c) ecstatic when it’s great. I don’t have many occasions to feel option (c), but I did last summer when I saw a screening of “The Dark Knight,” now on DVD.

Although set nearly 32 years ago, the big-screen version of Peter Morgan’s Tony-winning “Frost/Nixon” couldn’t be a timelier treatise on the point where our society began to lose its moral compass.

“The Day the Earth Stood Still” is a stupefying redo of one of the greatest, most profound alien invasion stories ever set to film. Keanu Reeves is the worst catastrophe in a disaster movie that’s too imbecilic to be taken seriously and much too dull for camp.

Demons and saints. We all have them lurking within us. Mine, though, are always chattering in my ear, telling me what to do and think. Nothing shuts them up. Nothing! Sometimes, like during the twisty-turny caper flick “Nobel Son,” they work overtime trying to drown each other out. Here, have a listen:

From the land down under to San Francisco, and a Christmas movie, too.

Sure, stories about aging, death, failed marriages and disgraced presidencies are the last thing you want to see when you’re struggling to keep food on the table. But when it’s this good, it’s worthwhile to give art a chance this holiday season.

Interview with James Franco, co-star of Gus Van Sant's "Milk."