Brian D. Johnson

Two monster movies in which the monster is a large, heavy object

In director Tony Scott’s monster movie, the villain is a shrieking behemoth of a train

Advice for the talented American director seeking to give Stieg Larsson the ‘Chinatown’ treatment

Robert Downey Jr. plays it straight, and gives stoner boy Zach Galifianakis a master class in acting

Mordecai’s son insists his dad was kidding

The most masterful novel in the Stieg Larssen’s Millennium trilogy produces the weakest film

Danny Boyle’s ‘127 Hours’ immerses us in the story of a climber who had to cut off his own arm

On tackling the Met, New York’s narcissism—and Hans Christian Andersen’s sex diary

A devastating documentary unravels the causes of the 2008 financial meltdown

A choice of icons—the singing, skating pacifist or the bomb-crazy Marxist Marlboro man