The Film Yap

These female-driven fright flicks dig deep and haunt hard.

Audiences will curse this bewildering Western-oater-meets-supernatural-thriller.

Diablo Cody’s follow-up script to “Juno” certainly doesn’t ring as sweet and real as its predecessor, but that was hardly the intention.

Is Simon Pegg the Dalai Lama of fanboys?

With five Academy Award noms (winning in 1986 for “Cocoon”), his resume includes “Return of the Jedi,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Jurassic Park,” “Minority Report,” and “Star Wars: Episode I.”

Michael Bay is the king of the big, dumb summer action flick, and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is as big and dumb as they come.

Max reviews ‘Jennifer’s Body.’

Megan Fox is devilishly good as a demonic high school cheerleader who doesn’t just torture the boys, but eats them right up.

Sure, what is sexy now and what was sexy 50 years ago has changed, but man, the genre has never looked so good.

Some of those films that make excellent use of the classroom, and are definitely worth putting off homework for.