Stories by Andrew O'Hehir

Brad Pitt's $200 million zombie epic is exciting cinema, but its sloppy, lazy script rips off many better films.

Why did this story drive the whole country nuts? Because we traded rights for "security," and didn't get either.

Maybe film culture isn't dying just yet: The year in movies brought richness and breadth — and controversy!

FDR is depicted as a blithe, womanizing creep who makes JFK and John Edwards look like bumbling frat boys.

While the candidates talk tough on al-Qaida and Iran's imaginary bomb, the real threats facing us go ignored

To play a doddering old fool in public, in a vain attempt to bolster the most vapid, empty-suited loser in American political history – that’s just a bitter reminder of what time and tide will do to us all, no matter how badass we may be.

In her new book, Joan Walsh discusses the complex story of why many in the white working class turned conservative.

With "Savages," a hallucinatory and violent pot saga, the director returns to the days of "Natural Born Killers"

Summer movies beyond Batman, from male strippers to a Depression neo-noir to Matthew McConaughey's big comeback.

With its sex-obsessed young heroine, "Turn Me On, Dammit!" goes where few movies have gone.

Director David Cronenberg's new film, starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen, looks at the relationship between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein.