From a pop culture perspective, private detectives stand for all that’s memorable about film noir. The indifference, the wittiness, and the moral ambiguity that define each urban knight has since become the stuff of parodied le...

Another week, another column-sized dose of trashing a trailer. On the docket this time is the first teaser for writer/director Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi action film Looper. Premise: In the future, time travel will be...