Drama
Rod Lott
Last spring, FunnyOrDie.com garnered some buzz for its fake trailer for a movie based on the life story of "Weird Al" Yankovic, suggesting that the recent trend of Oscar-bait musician biopics — "Ray," "Walk the Line," "La Vie en Rose," "I'm Not There" — had all but played itself out.

Drama
Rod Lott
Don Roos’ “The Other Woman” starts on a real high note: a photo montage of a most adorable newborn baby, set to tune of The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??”

Drama
Rod Lott
"Megan Is Missing" is the "Blair Witch Project" of Internet predator movies.

Drama
Rod Lott
While long impressive on the big screen, from “The Station Agent” to “Brokeback Mountain,” Michelle Williams does her best work yet in “Blue Valentine,” the fractured love story that earned her a well-deserved Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, but was more deserved to Natalie Portman in "Black Swan."

Drama
Rod Lott
You should see "Jolene," not because it's an excellent movie (which it isn't) or because it breaks new ground (which it doesn't).

Drama
Rod Lott
I find it kind of amusing that “Sex & the Single Mom,” a made-for-Lifetime production from 2003, is being touted as “the gift of a lifetime” for Mother’s Day.

Drama
Phil Bacharach
Last month’s winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, “The King’s Speech” is one of those films seemingly made with a checklist for garnering such statuettes.

Drama
Rod Lott
As Bananarama once sang, it's a cruel summer.

Drama
Rod Lott
Whereas François Ozon's "Swimming Pool" focused on a figurative fox, his "Ricky" focuses on a literal bird ... who's also a newborn boy.

Drama
Rod Lott
Not based on the Barenaked Ladies song, “One Week” begins with young Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson and his perpetual 5 o'clock shadow) being told he has stage IV cancer of the blood, liver and lymph nodes, and thus, little time left to live.

Drama
Rod Lott
Not everything Roger Corman attached his name to was outright schlock. Some of it was higher-minded, like the 1975 biopic "Capone." Oh, it's still filled with blood and boobs, all right. It just takes itself rather seriously. Perhaps too seriously, at the expense of enjoyment.

Drama
Rod Lott
Call it poor timing, but Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter" opens with a Hawaiian tsunami sequence that is absolutely stunning (especially on Blu-ray) and totally deserving of its recent Oscar nomination for visual effects.

Drama
Rod Lott
I can’t think of two classic films of the 1970s as relevant today as “Network” and “All the President’s Men.”

Drama
Rod Lott
Perhaps you saw Anne Hathaway, during her hosting duties for this year’s Academy Awards, joking (?) she was miffed that she failed to secure a nomination for “Love and Other Drugs,” despite her disrobing.

Drama
Rod Lott
 There’s not much to the 2009 French drama “Leaving.”