The film surrounding the titular Megan is a fairly standard robot goes evil film. In fact, this film has the exact same plot as the Child's Play remake from a few years ago. It's fine, it's serviceable, it is unexceptional. However Megan is what makes the movie shine.

Megan is such a weird take on an evil robot, and is never less than delightful in her malevolence. Megan's programing is designed to learn based on her interactions with an actual…

Sometimes a feminist movie sneaks up on you in the most unlikely of places. The story really does not make much sense: an alien turns a local heiress into a giant to steal her diamond. But that's ultimately irrelevant to the themes of the movie, the plot is just a mechanism to enable a critical examination of gender in society.

Nancy (the titular 50 Foot Woman) begins the story with a drinking problem and a sanity problem. Her husband is…

This is an amazing documentary. For being entitled Inside North Korea, National Geographic's team never truly gets inside the country. Certainly they travel to North Korea and spend ten days there. They travel around Pyongyang, even speaking to citizens. But "Inside" imply's moving past the artifice and into the depths of the nation, and that they never do.

But that is hardly the team's fault. North Korea might not have anything beyond artifice anymore. A ritualized form of worship of…