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| Public Enemies / ***1/2 (R) | |
| by Roger Ebert
"I rob banks," John Dillinger would sometimes say by way of introduction. It was the simple truth. That was what he did. For the 13 months between the day he escaped from prison and the night he lay dying in an alley, he robbed banks. It was his lifetime. Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" accepts that stark fact and refuses any temptation to soften it. Dillinger was not a nice man. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs / ***1/2 () | |
| by Roger Ebert
"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is the best of the three films about our friends in the inter-species herd of plucky prehistoric heroes. And it involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature. It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the series to take place anywhere: There is this land beneath the surface of the earth, you see... | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Julia / **** (R) | |
| "Julia" (R, 140 minutes). Tilda Swinton as an alcoholic slut who agrees to help a mother with the kidnapping of her young son. But she's also am habitual liar, and talks her way into deeper and deeper waters, in a hell of a great thriller with acting as good as it gets, and the use of seedy U.S. and Mexican locations that look real because are they ever. Strong supporting work by Saul Rubinek as her one remaining friend, and Bruno Bichir as Diego, a guy she meets in Tijuana. You want to be careful who you meet in Tijuana. Directed by Erick Zonca. Four stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| The Girl From Monaco / *** (R) | |
| "The Girl from Monaco" (R, 94 minutes). An attorney fro Paris, hired to defend a wealthy widow from murder charges, finds himself shadowed by an unwanted bodyguard, and pursued by an ambitious weathergirl who decides they were destined for one another. The weathergirl and the bodyguard are both from Monaco, and know each other from an earlier time. This works out in entirely unanticipated ways, in an ironic, well-oiled romantic thriller. Three stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| I Hate Valentine's Day / *1/2 (PG-13) | |
| "I Hate Valentine's Day" (PG-13, 98 minutes). Geneveive (Nia Vardalos) has has an unbreakable policy regarding men: Five dates, and she's out the door. she likes only the falling in love part of an affair, and not the inevitable breaking up. Genevieve is a woman beloved by all who encounter her, when in life I would be terrified of her. But not John Corbett, also her co-star in "My Big Fat Greek wedding," who agrees to the terms, in a painfully klutzy comedy that adores a character who, in my opinion, is stark staring mad. Written and directed by Vardalos. One and a half stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Great Movie: Man With a Movie Camera (1929) | |
| by Roger Ebert
In 1929, the year it was released, films had an average shot length (ASL) of 11.2 seconds. "Man With a Movie Camera" had an ASL of 2.3 seconds. The ASL of Michael Bay's "Armageddon" was -- also 2.3 seconds. Why would I begin a discussion of a silent classic by discussing such a mundane matter? It helps to understand the impact the film made at the time. Viewers had never seen anything like it, and Mordaunt Hall, the horrified author of the New York Times review, wrote: "The producer, Dziga Vertof, does not take into consideration the fact that the human eye fixes for a certain space of time that which holds the attention." This reminds me of Harry Carey's advice in 1929 to John Wayne, as the talkies were coming in: "Stop halfway through every sentence. The audience can't listen that fast." | RogerEbert Headlines |
Movie Answer Man: Was Natalie Wood really John
Wayne's daughter, or what? | |
| Q. Ive long suspected that not so deeply layered in the John Waynes and John Fords The Searchers (1956) is the idea that Debbie isnt Ethans niece she is his daughter. Ethans sister-in-law Martha (Dorothy Jordan) is clearly in love with Ethan (Wayne) by the way she treats him and by the way she holds his clothes close to her when she believes no one is looking. The sheriff (Ward Bond) pointedly ignores what is going on behind him when Ethan and Martha interact. Her daughter Debbie (Natalie Wood) is the apple of Ethans eye.
Ethans reactions are driven by something deeper than a mans unrequited love for the woman who married his brother, seen in his pursuit to at first rescue Debbie, and then to kill her to save her from a fate worse than death. If Ford did intend to hint at this, then the story takes on a deeper, and more awful meaning. I guess the wonderful thing about art is that it can be interpreted in many ways.
Matt Kaufman
A. I found your idea intriguing and turned for help to people who know more about films than just about anybody else: The legendary critic Andrew Sarris and his wife, the equally legendary Molly Haskell, and the noted University of Wisconsin scholar and author David Bordwell.
Molly tells me: Although that interpretation is certainly possible, Andrew and I both felt it to be improbable, it just doesnt belong in the Fordian universe. The feelings between the two are palpable, but never (it seems to both of us) overtly expressed. That tacit love is quite sufficient to explain Ethans special feeling for his niece.
David writes: In grad school long ago we talked about this; good to know that some people are still doing so. Still, Im skeptical, since theres little evidence of the sort that I guess lawyers call probitive Ethan loves Debbie, true, but his expression of affection is typical of how youd treat a child; hes quite affectionate to little Lucy, too. Of course Martha is in love with Ethan, but theres no direct evidence that that love has been consummated. Ward Bond does avert his eyes, but thats just as likely because a moment of tenderness between Martha and Ethan would be something hed overlook out of gallantry in any event.
Ethans reactions are driven by something deeper than revenge for the death of his brother and his family, but there is evidence that that something is racism as indicated in his comments, before the attack, about the obvious Indian ancestry of Martin Pawley. Finally, if Ethan were trying to save Debbie from rape at the hands of the Comanche, several characters point out that hes long since failed; shes obviously come of age and probably has become a warriors wife. Its that state of sexual maturity, at least according to the orthodox reading, that impels the later years of his quest: Martin (Jeffrey Hunter) is convinced that Ethan means to kill her for becoming defiled and his struggle to keep Ethan from doing so is the engine driving the last portion of the film.
All of this is more interesting, at least to me, than some hidden blood tie. It presents a more complex portrait of a man so blinded by codes of honor, family loyalty, masculine pride, sexual jealousy and racial prejudice than would a reading that indicates hes out to rescue his daughter. This mix alone is extraordinarily edgy for an American movie. It seems to me that everything we see in the film supports this interpretation. I think wed need some anomaly or extra clue to infer that Debbie is Ethans child.
And the context of Fords other work doesnt suggest the hidden-affair account: Think of the unrequited yearning of Maureen OHara and Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley, or Wyatt Earp and the schoolmarm in My Darling Clementine, or even Lincoln and Ann in Young Mr. Lincoln. For Ford, as for many of his contemporaries, it seems that unconsummated love is deeply poignant. Something else weve lost, maybe. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| People: Karl Malden: In Memory | |
| by Roger Ebert
Karl Malden, who won an Academy Award for one of the best American films and became a household name for a TV commercial, is dead at 97. He died at home in Brentwood of natural causes, according to his family. | RogerEbert Headlines |
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| Kambakkth Ishq explores the relationship between two individuals as different from each other as chalk & cheese. No matter how many times they are pushed together, there are only fireworks…no fire. Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar) is a swashbuckling stuntman in Hollywood who lives by the mantra “women are only good for two things … making love & making love” Simrita Rai (Kareena Kapoor) is a firebrand who is more than able to stare down the most arrogant male with her caustic wit and sardonic tongue … her firm belief “there’s no such thing as love”So what happens when the two people who hate each other the most meet at Simrita’s best friend Kamini’s and Viraj’s brother Lucky’s wedding?…..a wedding that both Viraj and Simrita are violently opposed to and desperate to stop. Sparks fly, accidents occur, and both are thrown together in a manner that they could have never ever even dreamed of in their wildest fantasies. The battle of the sexes is on. Who is going to throw the punches and who us going to blow the kisses? | Latest Movie Trailers |
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| Flicker is the feature film about a weekend camping trip to a small mountain town. Pretty and Jack wake up in the middle of the night to discover that their friends are missing. A bloody tent, homicidal cops, creepy locals and brutal elements create the world that Pretty must escape. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Evangelion 1.0 - Trailer | Thu, Jul 2 01:00 AM |
| There was no foreseeable warning before it happened — a catastrophe of unparalleled scale and magnitude overwhelmed the entire globe. This event, recorded in history as “The Second Impact,” caused half the population of the Earth to perish and devastated the world. All that remains of Japan is Tokyo-3, a city that is now being attacked by giant creatures that seek to destroy mankind. These creatures are called Angels. Fourteen year old Shinji Ikari is called to Tokyo-3 by his father who he hasn’t seen in more than eight years. He is asked to come to the NERV headquarters to meet his father. His father reveals to him a gigantic humanoid weapons system that the special governmental agency has secretly developed to fight the Angels and then orders Shinji to pilot the giant artificial human Evangelion Unit One. With the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, how will the 14 year old boy Shinji fight? Wht is the truth behind “The Human Instrumentality Project,” an operation somehow related to the “Second Impact”? And who is the true enemy? The Angels, NERV, the mysterious SEELE, or the demons held within the hearts of the people involved? Gendō Ikari, a man who holds many answers to these questions, watches silently and attentively as his son fights a desperate battle… | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Windmill Movie - Trailer | Thu, Jul 2 01:00 AM |
| What if someone wrote your autobiography? 200 hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2001, leaving a lifetime of filmed memories, until his student and protégé, Alexander Olch began making a movie out of the pieces. Writing in his teacher’s voice, working with with Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, and Richard’s wife - acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas - Olch steps into his mentor’s shoes and his past - to make a film that was impossible to make. An autobiography, that isn’t. A documentary which is fiction. A lifetime of questions, finally answered. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Captain Abu Raed - Trailer | Thu, Jul 2 01:00 AM |
| Captain Abu Raed is a universal story of friendship, inspiration and heroism set in contemporary Jordan. Abu Raed is a lonely janitor at Amman’s International Airport. Never having realized his dreams of seeing the world, he experiences it vicariously through books and brief encounters with travelers. Finding a discarded Captain’s hat in the trash at work one day, he is followed by a neighborhood boy who spots him wearing it as he walks home. The next morning he wakes up to find a group of neighborhood children at his door, believing him to be an airline pilot. And thus the friendship begins. Happy for the company and attention, he takes the children to colorful places around the world through his fictional stories and inspires them to believe in their own ambitions. Murad, an angry outsider to the group, vindictively attacks Abu Raed and the sense of hope he instills in the children. In his quest to prove that Abu Raed is a liar and a fake, Murad begins to discover new possibilities in his life. Meanwhile, Abu Raed’s friendship with Nour, a real female pilot, begins to grow as she deals with her own set of pressures from life in modern Amman. Captain Abu Raed is the story of everyday people intersecting across social boundaries. It is a story of dreams, friendship, forgiveness, and sacrifice. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Bull - Trailer | Thu, Jul 2 01:00 AM |
| Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir about deception, identity, money, murder, and really tall buildings. Deep within heatwave-baked skyscraper canyons, a hapless stockbroker gets caught up in a twisty web where no one - no one at all - is telling the truth. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| In the Loop - Trailer | Thu, Jul 2 01:00 AM |
| IN THE LOOP is a smart new comedy and Sundance Film Festival hit from the acclaimed team behind the award-winning BBC TV comedy series THICK OF IT. The film is drawing instant comparisons to great political and absurdist comedies like DR. STRANGELOVE, WAG THE DOG, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING and MONTY PYTHON. With razor-sharp, truly laugh-out-loud dialogue the film pokes fun at the absurdity and ineptitude of our highest leaders. With everyone looking out for number one, and the fate of the free world at stake (but apparently incidental), the hilarious ensemble cast of characters bumbles its way through Machiavellian political dealings, across continents, and toward comic resolutions that are unforeseeable. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Lion’s Den - Trailer | Wed, Jul 1 01:00 AM |
| Sent to prison for allegedly killing her lover, Julia discovers she is pregnant and is sent to a high-security maternity ward to serve her time. Julia’s only concern now is her son. Her fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally; her mother Sofía, her opponent. One attempts to teach her how to be a mother; the other wishes to take over rearing the child. The film, shot in a real prison with inmates as extras, shines a light on a little known aspect of prison life: motherhood behind bars. An official selection of Cannes Film Festival. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| A Woman In Berlin - Trailer | Wed, Jul 1 01:00 AM |
| Set in 1945 during the Red Army invasion of Berlin. Women are victims of rape and devastation; one of them is Anonyma (NINA HOSS), who had been a journalist and photographer. In her desperation, she decides to look for an officer who can protect her. She meets a Russian officer Andrej (EVGENY SIDIKHIN) - an encounter which develops into a complex symbiotic relationship that forces them to remain enemies until the bitter end. An official selection of the Toronto Film Festival. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Daybreakers - Trailer | Wed, Jul 1 01:00 AM |
| Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Five Minutes of Heaven - Trailer | Wed, Jul 1 01:00 AM |
| Lurgan Northern Ireland, 1975. A low level civil war has been underway, with the IRA targeting British loyalists and the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. Alistair Little, 16 is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to be blooded. He and his gang are given the go ahead to kill a young Catholic man, James Griffin, as a reprisal and a warning to others. When the hit is carried out, Joe Griffin - the 11-year old little brother of the target - watches in horror his brother is shot in the head. Thirty years later Joe Griffin and Alistair are to meet, on camera, with a view to reconciliation. Alistair has served his sentence, and peace may have been agreed to in N. Ireland, but Joe Griffin is not coming on the program for a handshake. Unbeknownst to the production team, he intends to stick a knife in his brother’s killer - live on air | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Couples Retreat - Trailer | Tue, Jun 30 01:00 AM |
| Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kristen Bell and Faizon Love star in Universal Pictures’ upcoming comedy Couples Retreat. Based on an original idea of Vaughn’s, the comedy follows four Midwestern couples who embark on a journey to a tropical island resort. While one of the couples is there to work on their marriage, the other three set out to jet ski, spa and enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon discover that participation in the resort’s couples therapy is not optional. Suddenly, their group-rate vacation comes at a price. What follows is a hilarious look at real world problems faced by all couples. The film also stars Kali Hawk and Jean Reno. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Informant! - Trailer 1 | Tue, Jun 30 01:00 AM |
| What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre’s ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre’s rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Brüno - Film Clip | Mon, Jun 29 01:00 AM |
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| The Answer Man - Film Clip | Mon, Jun 29 01:00 AM |
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| Reuters - Boy wizard Harry Potter is back in cinemas later this month with the sixth installment of the movie franchise, and another box office bonanza looks assured for the Warner Bros. studio. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Belgian film offers complex portrait of Singing Nun
(Reuters)
| Thu, Jul 2 08:00 PM |
| Reuters - "Sister Smile," Stijn Coninx's film on the life of the Belgian "Singing Nun," Jeanine Deckers, owes much of its success in Belgium and France to star Cecile de France. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| "Asteroids" lands at Universal
(Reuters)
| Thu, Jul 2 07:13 PM |
| Reuters - Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| "Ice Age" heats up box office with record opening
(Reuters)
| Thu, Jul 2 04:26 PM |
 Reuters - "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" grossed a cool $13.8 million in North American theaters on Wednesday, marking Hollywood's biggest mid-week opening for an animated film.
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| James Frey writing teen science fiction novels
(AP)
| Thu, Jul 2 03:44 PM |
 AP - James Frey (FRY) is writing for young people, and Hollywood has signed on.
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| 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
| Rolling Stone DVD Reviews |
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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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