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| Disney's A Christmas Carol / **** (PG) | |
| "A Christmas Carol" (PG, 95 minutes) An exhilarating visual experience that proves for the third time Robert Zemeckis is one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D. The story that Dickens wrote in 1838 remains timeless, and if it's supercharged here with Scrooge swooping the London streets as freely as Superman, well, once you let ghosts into a movie there's room for anything. In motion-capture animation, Jim Carrey does the movements and voice of Ebenezer Scrooge, never thinner, never more stooped, never more bitter. The A-list cast also includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes. Four stars | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Precious / **** (R) | |
| "Precious" (R, 109 minutes). School is an ordeal of mocking cruelty for a fat teenager, and home is worse. Precious avoids looking at people, hardly ever speaks, is nearly illiterate, is pregnant. One of her teachers (Paula Patton) and a postal worker (Mariah Carey) see something in her, or simply react to her obvious pain. They try to coax her out of her shell. She's not stupid, but feels defeated. Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe gives a powerful performance in the title role, and Mo'Nique is frighteningly effective as her abusive mother. Directed by Lee Daniels, based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire. Four stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats / ***1/2 (R) | |
| "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (R, 93 minutes). A weirdly funny comedy that seriously claims to be based on an actual U.S. Army interest in using paranormal soldiers as a weapon. Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who encounters George Clooney, a "Jedi Warrior" graduate of these secret program; flashbacks show Jeff Bridges as an officer who seems very much like The Big Lebowski. Could they kill goats by staring? Well, if you can bend a spoon with your mind, why not a rifle? Three and a half stars | RogerEbert Headlines |
| The Box / *** (PG-13) | |
| "The Box" (114 minutes, PG-13). A preposterous but never boring sci-fi movie where a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella) gives a couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marston) a box with a button on top, and tells them if they oust out they'll get $1 million in cash -- but someone unknown to them will die. Well, what would you do? And then the plot really gets wild. Stay way if you expect it to add up and make sense. You're entering…the Twilight Zone. Three stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| (Untitled) / ***1/2 (R) | |
| "(Untitled") (R, 96 minutes). A good, smart comedy about the fringes of the New York art world, starring Adam Goldberg as an impossible experimental musician and Marley Shelton as a chic Soho gallery owner. The art on display is good enough to be plausible, and weird enough to be funny. It's worthy of the best Woody Allen, and Adrian is not unlike Woody's persona: A sincere, intense, insecure nebbish, hopeless with women, aiming for greatness. Directed by Jonathan Parker. Three and a half stars | RogerEbert Headlines |
| The Fourth Kind / *1/2 (PG-13) | |
| "The Fourth Kind" (PG-13, 98 minutes). Nome, Alaska (pop. 3,750) has so many disappearances and/or alien abductions that the FBI has investigated there 20 times more than in Anchorage. So it's claimed by this pseudo-doc that goes to inane lengths to appear factual. Milla Jovovich is good as a psychologist whose clients complain that owls stare at them in the middle of the night. One and a half stars. One and a half stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| The Horse Boy / *** (No MPAA rating) | |
| "The Horse Boy" (Unrated, 94 minutes). A four-year-old Texas boy with autism has angry seizures and isn't potty-trained. His parents fly with him to Mongolia, drive nine hours into the steppes, and then journey by horseback to a sacred mountain where he undergoes a miraculous cure at the hands of shamans. A remarkable story, but containing unanswered questions. Three stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Great Movie: Mon oncle d'Amerique (1980) | |
| Three children are born in France. One, Rene, is the son of struggling farmers. One, Janine, a daughter of proletarians. The third son, Jean, is born in a manor house to wealthy bourgeois. These children grow up, are educated, find occupations often against the will of their parents, and enter relationships. They don't much think of themselves as laboratory rats, but they might be surprised how consistently their behavior is consistent with the involuntary responses of a rat. This observation is not intend as an insult to them, or to the rat. | RogerEbert Headlines |
Movie Answer Man: A remake of "The Third Man?"
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| Q. I need to share this blasphemous rumor with you; it is said Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire will co-star in a remake of "The Third Man." Can't we just all agree that some movies are sacred?
Hisham Teymour, Mount Prospect
A. My instinctive reaction was to throw up. On second thought, I'll reserve judgment until I see this shameless project. Some remakes are good enough to stand beside their originals; Herzog's "Nosferatu," for example. The screenplay is allegedly being written by Steven Knight, who wrote "Dirty Pretty Things" and "Eastern Promises," two splendid films. The original film was written by (*cough*) Graham Greene. A director isn't set.
But it's not the story, is it, so much as the look and feel and sound of that supreme masterpiece. Can a remake even be contemplated without zither music and the immortal "The Third Man" theme? Will the tilt shots and oblique POV angles be preserved? Will the classic chase through the sewers of Vienna, with one (1) off-screen gunshot, be preserved? Will it be shot in color, when "The Third Man" is one of the most black and white films of all time? And what actor dares to invoke Orson Welles as Harry Lime? The undertaking seems foolhardy. | RogerEbert Headlines |
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| The Men Who Stare At Goats - TV Spot - Goats | Fri, Nov 6 12:00 AM |
| In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter encounters an enigmatic Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (Academy Award®winner George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program’s founder, Bill Django (Oscar® nominee Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady’s mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance’s far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (two-time Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey), the reporter is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django’s New Earth Army and Hooper’s personal militia of super soldiers. In order to survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy he never thought possible. The Men Who Stare at Goats was inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction bestseller of the same name, an eye-opening and often hilarious exploration of the government’s attempts to harness paranormal abilities to combat its enemies. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox - Who Am I? | Fri, Nov 6 12:00 AM |
| FANTASTIC MR. FOX is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach). The film features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Jarvis Cocker Mr and Mrs Fox (Clooney and Streep) live an idyllic home life with their son Ash (Schwartzman) and visiting young nephew Kristopherson (Eric Anderson). But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr Fox at any cost. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Yellow Handkerchief - Trailer | Fri, Nov 6 12:00 AM |
| A love story at its core, THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF is about three strangers of two generations bound by loneliness who reach out to one another. After embarking on a road trip through post Katrina Louisiana, their relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances. Brett Hanson (William Hurt) dealing with a painful past, crosses paths with a lonely and troubled teenager Martine (Kristen Stewart) and her new ‘ride’ Gordy (Eddie Redmayne). The trio head out together, each motivated by reasons of their own. Martine yearns to escape her family, Gordy hopes to get closer to Martine and Brett must decide whether he wants to return to the uncertainty of the life and the woman he left behind, his ex-wife May (Maria Bello). A deeply humanistic and emotionally rich film, THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF is directed by Udayan Prasad (MY SON THE FANATIC). Produced by six time Academy Award® winner Arthur Cohn (THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER). THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF stars Academy Award® winner William Hurt, Golden Globe® nominee Maria Bello, TWILIGHT star Kristen Stewart and Eddie Redmayne (THE GOOD SHEPHERD). The film is loosely based on a short story by renowned writer Pete Hamill. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Slammin’ Salmon - Trailer | Fri, Nov 6 12:00 AM |
| In the latest comedy from Broken Lizard, (the creators of Supertroopers and Beerfest) “Slammin” Cleon Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan) is a former Heavyweight Champion of the World turned celebrity owner of a high end Miami seafood restaurant, The Slammin’ Salmon. A terrifying bull of a man, Salmon uses fear to rule over his misfit waitstaff (Broken Lizard’s Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, as well as Cobie Smulders and April Bowlby) and on this particular night, he takes his bullying skills to a new level. In an effort to pay off a gambling debt to the Japanese Yakuza, Salmon sets up a contest to ‘inspire’ his waitstaff to sell more food than they ever have before: the top selling server wins $10,000 while the waiter in last place gets served with a broken rib sandwich—courtesy of the Champ himself. Spurred on by greed and panic, the staff resort to backstabbing, bribery and indecent proposals in an attempt to upsell their patrons while simultaneously sabotaging their co-workers. As the hours pass, the dining room action becomes more frenzied as the contest escalates into a brawl for first place in order to win the money. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| It’s Complicated - Trailer 2 | Thu, Nov 5 12:00 AM |
| Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Jane (Streep) is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has—after a decade of divorce—an amicable relationship with her ex-husband, attorney Jake (Baldwin). But when Jane and Jake find themselves out of town for their son’s college graduation, things start to get complicated. An innocent meal together turns into the unimaginable—an affair. With Jake remarried to the much younger Agness (Lake Bell), Jane is now, of all things, the other woman. Caught in the middle of their renewed romance is Adam (Martin), an architect hired to remodel Jane’s kitchen. Healing from a divorce of his own, Adam starts to fall for Jane, but soon realizes he’s become part of a love triangle. Should Jane and Jake move on with their lives, or is love truly lovelier the second time around? It’s…complicated. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Eichmann - Trailer | Thu, Nov 5 12:00 AM |
| Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler’s plan for the “final solution.” Captured by intelligence operatives in Argentina, 15 years after World War II, Eichmann (Kretschmann), the World’s most wanted man, must be broken down and the truth unveiled. As the world waits, two men must confront each other in a battle of wills- the result of which will change a nation forever. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Shake Hands With the Devil - Trailer | Thu, Nov 5 12:00 AM |
| The feature film “Shake Hands with the Devil,” based on Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire’s award-winning book, is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, and stars the highly-esteemed actor Roy Dupuis as Dallaire. Deborah Kara Unger portrays one of the few journalists who remained in Rwanda after the genocide began. The cast also includes Jean-Hugues Anglade as Bernard Kouchner, a founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. James Gallanders, Michel Mongeau and Owen Lebakeng Sejake play the courageous officers who stood with Dallaire, and Odile Katesi Gakire plays the Rwandan Prime Minister of the Peace Government. A dramatization from Oscar®-winning Producer Michael Donovan and multi-award-winning Producer Laszlo Barna, “Shake Hands with the Devi” was filmed in Rwanda using many of the actual locations described in the book. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Despicable Me - Trailer 2 | Wed, Nov 4 12:00 AM |
| In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon (Yes, the moon!) in Universal’s new 3-D CGI feature, Despicable Me. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Men Who Stare At Goats - Clip - Super Powers | Wed, Nov 4 12:00 AM |
| In this quirky dark comedy inspired by a real life story you will hardly believe is actually true, astonishing revelations about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military come to light when a reporter encounters an enigmatic Special Forces operator on a mind-boggling mission. Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (Academy Award®winner George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program’s founder, Bill Django (Oscar® nominee Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady’s mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance’s far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (two-time Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey), the reporter is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django’s New Earth Army and Hooper’s personal militia of super soldiers. In order to survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy he never thought possible. The Men Who Stare at Goats was inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction bestseller of the same name, an eye-opening and often hilarious exploration of the government’s attempts to harness paranormal abilities to combat its enemies. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Avatar - Trailer | Tue, Nov 3 12:00 AM |
| AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Precious - TV Spot - Life | Tue, Nov 3 12:00 AM |
| Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Dear John - Trailer | Tue, Nov 3 12:00 AM |
| Directed by Lasse Halström and based on the novel by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, DEAR JOHN tells the story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John’s increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas—correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Fix - Trailer | Tue, Nov 3 12:00 AM |
| Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella (HOUSE’s Olivia Wilde) and Milo (Tao Ruspoli) must race from Beverly Hills to Watts — and places in between — in order to get Milo’s brother Leo (Shawn Andrews) from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years. A story inspired by true events, the trio documents their trip from a suburban police station in Calabasas through mansions in Beverly Hills, East LA chopshops, rural wastelands, and housing projects in Watts as they attempt to raise the $5,000 required to get Leo into the rehab clinic. Along the way they encounter dozens of colorful characters, each with their own anomalous perspective on Leo’s larger-than-life personality and style, and each with their own excuse for why they cannot help out. In the end, it may take the desperate irony of a drug deal to get the necessary funds to send Leo to rehab. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief - Trailer | Tue, Nov 3 12:00 AM |
| It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. And they’re not happy: Zeus’ lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Even more troubling is the sudden disappearance of Percy’s mother. As Percy finds himself caught between angry and battling gods, he and his friends embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true lightning thief, save Percy’s mom, and unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Old Dogs - Clip - Baby Proofers | Mon, Nov 2 12:00 AM |
| Two best friends — one unlucky-in-love divorcee (ROBIN WILLIAMS) and the other a fun-loving bachelor (JOHN TRAVOLTA) — have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of six-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins (newcomers ELLA BLEU TRAVOLTA and CONNER RAYBURN), leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what’s really important in life. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| La Danse - Trailer | Mon, Nov 2 12:00 AM |
| The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. LA DANSE shows how a ballet company functions from administration, technical support, and classes, to the rehearsal and/or performance of seven ballets— Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, The Nutcracker by Rudolf Noureev, Genus by Wayne McGregor, Medea by Angelin Preljocaj, The House of Bernarda Alba by Mats Ek, Romeo and Juliet by Sasha Waltz and Orpheus and Eurydyce by Pina Bausch. The film is a profile of all aspects of the ballet company, one of France’s principal cultural institutions. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Love - Teaser | Sat, Oct 31 01:00 AM |
| After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut LEE MILLER becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship. Driven by the powerful music of ANGELS & AIRWAVES, “LOVE” explores the fundamental human need for connection and the limitless power of hope… A high-impact visual adventure, that resonates a common truth, that everyone has a story to tell and something even greater to leave behind. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Old Dogs - Trailer 2 | Fri, Oct 30 01:00 AM |
| Two best friends — one unlucky-in-love divorcee (ROBIN WILLIAMS) and the other a fun-loving bachelor (JOHN TRAVOLTA) — have their lives turned upside down when they’re unexpectedly charged with the care of six-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins (newcomers ELLA BLEU TRAVOLTA and CONNER RAYBURN), leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what’s really important in life. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Canyon - Trailer | Fri, Oct 30 01:00 AM |
| Young newlyweds Nick and Lori decide to spend their honeymoon frolicking in the wild and wide expanse of the Grand Canyon, a longtime dream destination for the groom. But when a charismatic and mysterious guide arrives, their wedded bliss suddenly turns into a story of survival. From director Richard Harrah, and starring Yvonne Stahovski (NBC’s CHUCK), Eion Bailey (FIGHT CLUB) and Will Patton (ARMAGEDDON), comes the nightmarish thriller THE CANYON. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Michael Jackson’s This Is It - TV Spot - Moment | Thu, Oct 29 01:00 AM |
| Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London’s O2 Arena. Chronicling the months from April through June, 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up close and personal. In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT captures the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he creates and perfects his final show. Kenny Ortega, who was both Michael Jackson’s creative partner and the director of the stage show is also directing the film, which is being produced by Randy Phillips, Kenny Ortega and Paul Gongaware. Executive producers are John Branca and John McClain. The film will be distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing. Tickets for the limited two-week engagement of the film go on sale beginning September 27. | Latest Movie Trailers |
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| Movie Review | 'Precious': Howls of a Life, Buried Deep Within | Fri, Nov 6 02:48 PM |
“Precious” is a hybrid, a mash-up that might have been ungainly, but that manages to be graceful instead.
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| Film: A Tragic Ballerina Dances Again, Her Shoes Now Redder Than Ever | Thu, Nov 5 10:14 PM |
The colors in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s masterpiece “The Red Shoes” don’t just exist, they also express.
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| Movie Review | 'The Box': Simplifying One Life, Complicating Another | Fri, Nov 6 12:13 PM |
“The Box” is sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious.
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| Movie Review | 'Disney’s A Christmas Carol': Ghosts of Technology Present | Fri, Nov 6 12:24 PM |
“Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a branded piece of shiny seasonal entertainment.
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| Movie Review | 'That Evening Sun': Reclaiming a Home at the Sunset of Life | Thu, Nov 5 10:13 PM |
In “That Evening Sun,” Hal Holbrook strips the stereotype of the grumpy old man of sentimental shtick.
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| Movie Review | 'Collapse': Single Focus: An Outsider With Doomsday Vision | Thu, Nov 5 10:16 PM |
A chilling monologue of imminent catastrophe, “Collapse” is not just sobering; it’s a full-on assault.
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| Movie Review | 'The Men Who Stare at Goats': Mission Mind Control in Defense of America | Thu, Nov 5 10:18 PM |
“The Men Who Stare at Goats” is a likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy.
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| Movie Review | 'The Fourth Kind': Even Insomniacs Can Have Nightmares | Thu, Nov 5 10:14 PM |
“The Fourth Kind” may be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare.
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| Movie Review | 'Splinterheads': Casual Quest for Meaning, Aided by GPS | Thu, Nov 5 10:18 PM |
“Splinterheads” is a shaggy comedy with more heart than heft.
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| Movie Review | 'La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet': Creating Dialogue From Body Language | Wed, Nov 4 06:55 PM |
“La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet” is one of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that.
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| Movie Review | 'Act of God': Trying to Find Meaning in a Bolt From the Blue | Tue, Nov 3 10:05 PM |
In the wispy documentary “Act of God,” survivors of lightning strikes find metaphysical meaning in meteorological phenomena.
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| Film: A New Attack on the Iraq War Film | Fri, Nov 6 09:36 PM |
“The Messenger” portrays conflict on the home front: the struggles of those who tell the next of kin their loved ones are dead.
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| Film: Unleashing Life’s Wild Things | Fri, Nov 6 12:28 PM |
A new breed of children’s movies play a kind of reverse dress-up, disguising adult anxieties in the costumes of innocent make-believe and fanciful spectacle.
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| It’s Nearly a Wrap for Hollywood Power Lunches at Orso | Tue, Nov 3 09:55 PM |
With the closing of Orso, producers will need another place to meet smoking stars.
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| Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to Host the Oscars | Wed, Nov 4 03:07 PM |
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were named next year’s Academy Awards hosts days after the Golden Globes landed the comedian Ricky Gervais as its host.
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| ArtsBeat: Date Set for Oral Arguments in Polanski Case | Mon, Nov 2 05:43 PM |
A California appeals court in Los Angeles has scheduled oral arguments in its review of Roman Polanski's three-decade-old sex case for Dec. 10.
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| ArtsBeat: For Sale: One Humanity-Wasting Robot, Answers to the Name 'Terminator' | Tue, Nov 3 03:21 PM |
The Halcyon Company, which owns the rights to the “Terminator” movies and related assets, plans to sell the franchise at an auction in January.
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| Film Series and Movie Listings | Thu, Nov 5 09:46 PM |
MOVIES.
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| Movie Review | 'You Cannot Start Without Me': Here’s What Being Busy in Russia Sounds Like | Mon, Nov 2 12:06 AM |
What you learn from this film that the conductor Valery Gergiev is one busy guy. What you don’t learn: what specific skills or knowledge make him such a busy guy.
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| Movie Review | 'This Is It': The Pop Spectacular That Almost Was | Thu, Oct 29 01:38 PM |
Death returned Michael Jackson’s humanity, and so does “Michael Jackson’s This Is It.”
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| Movie Review | 'The House of the Devil': Baby Sitter, Beware: That Top Step Is a Lulu | Thu, Oct 29 10:40 PM |
“The House of the Devil” is a horror movie that provides more shiver than splatter.
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| ‘This Is It’: No. 1, but Still Disappointing | Mon, Nov 2 12:05 AM |
The much-hyped Michael Jackson documentary failed to thrill a mega audience in North America. But overseas was another story, where a stronger fan base delivered big results.
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| Holiday Movies: Cinematic Soul Mates | Fri, Oct 30 04:48 PM |
Penélope Cruz, muse, and Pedro Almodóvar, inspiree. Or is it the other way around?
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| Holiday Movies: Eternal Role: A-List Character Actor | Thu, Nov 5 06:59 PM |
By sticking to the character-actor script, Matt Damon has built a most unusual A-list career.
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| Holiday Movies: Not His Typical Ghost Story (or Movie) | Thu, Nov 5 06:51 PM |
With “The Lovely Bones,” Peter Jackson becomes a different kind of storyteller.
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| "A Prophet" nominated for six European film awards
(Reuters)
| Sat, Nov 7 12:13 PM |
| Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) -The French film "Un Prophete" (A Prophet) has been nominated for six European Film awards, including best film and best director, the European Film Academy announced on Saturday at the Seville Europe Film Festival. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Nick Counter, Hollywood studios' negotiator, dies
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 6 07:30 PM |
| AP - Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Quirkiness outdoes charm in "Splinterheads"
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 6 06:31 PM |
| Reuters - Depicting an awkward romance between two young misfits set in the backdrop of a traveling carnival, "Splinterheads" mainly comes across as a low-rent version of "Adventureland." Although Brant Sersen's comedy, which opened Friday (November 6), has amusing moments, they come too far between to elevate the film above the standard indie level of quirkiness for its own sake. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Joe Jackson seeks allowance from son's estate
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 6 04:55 PM |
 Reuters - Joe Jackson, the elderly father of late pop star Michael Jackson, on Friday filed a court petition seeking an allowance from the singer's estate, saying his son had supported him for many years.
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| Actor Woods sues RI hospital in brother's death
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 6 04:17 PM |
 AP - Two-time Oscar-nominated actor James Woods has sued a Rhode Island hospital over the 2006 death of his younger brother.
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| Broadway finds its 'Spider-Man' in Reeve Carney
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 6 03:59 PM |
| AP - Broadway has found its Spider-Man — rock singer Reeve Carney. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Matthew Broderick focuses on 'Wonderful World'
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 6 12:53 PM |
 AP - Matthew Broderick says he's puzzled by the bashing he's received for his actions during the first New York preview of "The Starry Messenger," a new play by good friend Kenneth Lonergan.
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| Hollywood calls on Clooney for holiday movie cheer
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 6 05:34 AM |
 Reuters - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And judging by what's in theaters this holiday movie season, his name is George Clooney.
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| Actress Isla Fisher on loose with "Desperados"
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 6 12:05 AM |
| Reuters - Isla Fisher is eyeing "Desperados," a feature comedy described as a female-oriented "Hangover." | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Brit rocker Dave Stewart goes "Street Dancing"
(Reuters)
| Thu, Nov 5 10:24 PM |
| Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- British rocker Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame will team with Oscar winner A.R. Rahman ("Slumdog Millionaire") to write the score for "Street Dancing," an against-all-odds movie set in the world of dance competitions held in Singapore and New York. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Rolling Stone DVD Reviews |
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The Host | |
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Starring:
Bong Joon-Ho
Review:
Need proof that South Korea is the epicenter of cool Asian
cinema? Look no further than The Host, where a family
battles a huge, contagion-carrying ? fish monster? The film is
hilarious and the action is out-of-control ? simply one of the
greatest monster flicks ever made.
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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Hot Fuzz | |
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Starring:
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Review:
Who knew? Apparently, there are English hipsters out there who
revere trashy big-budget buddy-cop flicks like Lethal
Weapon and Bad Boys. Hot Fuzz is the latest
from the U.K. geek squad behind the cult comedy Shaun of the
Dead: writer/director Edgar Wright, writer/star Simon Pegg,
and demented plus-size sidekick Nick Frost. Together, they parody
cop movies with the same fanaticism Shaun of the Dead
brought to zombie flicks. For the first half or so, it's bloody
brilliant. Pegg and Frost are...
Rating:
3 Stars
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You're Gonna Miss Me | |
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Starring:
Billy Gibbons, Patti Smith
Review:
This documentary traces the life of Roky Erickson, a pioneer of
60s psych-rock whose life becomes ruined by smoke, smack and
schizophrenia. It?s a familiar arc, sure, but the clichés
are averted when the focus turns to the cause of his madness: his
bat-shit crazy mother.
Rating:
3 Stars
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