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| Dear John / ** (PG-13) | |
| "Dear John" (PG-13,105 minutes). A Special Forces soldier and a sweet South Carolina rich girl Meet Cute, fall in love, and pledge to meet and marry when his tour ends in a year. But it s not to be. Another one of those bittersweet Nicholas Sparks stories that laboriously endeavor to wring from us a sad smile. I was sadly smiling not at their loss, but of mine. Although Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried are attractive and well-matched as the would-be lovers, and Richard Jenkins makes autism seem kinda sweet (if it's a mild case), this movie is so doomed to end exactly the way it does that we wonder why the characters don't prevent it, if they want to. Two stars | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Fish Tank / **** (No MPAA rating) | |
| "Fish Tank" (Unrated, adults, 123 minutes). The harrowing portrait of a 15-year-old girl on a reckless path toward self-destruction. Her mother, only about 30, is a drunken slut and she seems on the same path. Covers a few days of fraught experiences with sex and anger. Superbly acted by newcomer Katie Jarvis. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes 2009. Directed by Andrea Arnold. Four stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| From Paris With Love / ** (R) | |
| "From Paris with Love" (R, 92 minutes). John Travolta as an American Mr. Fix It who takes a cocky attitude to Paris and backs it up in a messy plot heavy on action scenes concocted from CGI and quick cutting. Nothing original, convincing or involving, although Travolta succeeds almost by being in a movie of his own. Directed by Pierre Morel, whose previous film, "Taken," was much better. Two stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| The Last Station / *** (R) | |
| "The Last Station" (R, 110 minutes). On his country estate, in his last year, Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) rules over a household of intrigues. His wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) is in fierce battle with his disciple Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), who thinks the Count should leave his estate to the Russian people, and not to Sofya and their 13 children. Cherkov hires young Valentin (James McAvoy) to act as Tolstoy's private secretary and a spy, but Valentin is seduced by a nubile Tolstoyian (Kerry Condon) and broadens his views about the great man. Sort of a Merchant-Ivory picture with loud instead of quiet lust. Three stars. | RogerEbert Headlines |
| Great Movie: The Hairdresser's Husband (1990) | |
| The hairdressing shop is their ocean liner, their lives are a cruise around the world. They will sail the Nile, kiss in the shadows of the Great Pyramids, see the sun set on every earthly paradise, and it will always be exactly like this. Perfect. "The Hairdresser's Husband" (1990) tells the story of two romantics besotted with love, living in a French hairdressing salon, she reading magazines on her perch by the widow, he working crosswords on the red leather bench, the sunlight flooding in. The yellows, blues, tropical colors. The exotic music he dances to. Occasionally at some unheard signal their eyes meet and they smile in shared bliss. | RogerEbert Headlines |
Movie Answer Man: We know it made plenty,
so let's leave it at that | |
| Q. Does it makes any sense to you the fanfare made over "Avatar" dethroning "Titanic" as all time box office champ considering no inflation adjustment was done and there is a 10 year period between the release of both movies? Then again the "Titanic" record only stands if you consider the box office receipts from other movies such as "Gone With the Wind" are considered also in non-adjusted dollars. And "Avatar" and "Titanic" were released at a time when we knew the DVD is coming in a few months, thus lowering any urgency to see it repeatedly in a theater.
Gerardo Valero, Mexico City
A. This question, which comes up every time a box office record is challenged, inspiring debates which usually dribble off with, "But there are no reliable box office figures for 'Birth of a Nation'." It is impossible to find authoritative figures accounting for box office prices, inflation, and reporting accuracy. All we know is that if a movie was really successful, it's always mentioned in stories like these. | RogerEbert Headlines |
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| 44 Inch Chest - Interview | Thu, Feb 4 12:00 AM |
| 44 Inch Chest is a provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender film amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone. The movie explores the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, shattered by his wife’s (Joanne Whalley) infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by; they kidnap his wife’s French lover and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| 44 Inch Chest - Clip 1 | Thu, Feb 4 12:00 AM |
| 44 Inch Chest is a provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender film amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone. The movie explores the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, shattered by his wife’s (Joanne Whalley) infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by; they kidnap his wife’s French lover and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Wolfman - Featurette | Thu, Feb 4 12:00 AM |
| Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Lawrence Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate. As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself…one he never imagined existed. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Jackie Chan In Shinjuku Incident - Trailer | Thu, Feb 4 12:00 AM |
| In the early 1990s, a Chinese tractor mechanic nicknamed Nick (Jackie Chan) enters Japan illegally in search of his fiancée Xiu Xiu (Xu Jing Lei). Nick has made the journey on a freighter that sinks before reaching the harbor. Nick manages to reach dry land, avoiding the Japanese police as he tracks down his brother Joe (Daniel Wu) and asks for help. Joe provides food and shelter while Nick looks for a job and searches for his lost love in this strange new city. Joe introduces Nick to some fellow Chinese immigrants and each of them help the newcomer by showing him how the black market and other underworld activities can help him survive. The menial jobs available to them are difficult and pay very little. Nick considers the possibility, but he is not a criminal… yet. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Falling Awake - Trailer | Thu, Feb 4 12:00 AM |
| Falling Awake tells the powerful story of Jay (Andrew Cisneros), a young Latino musician in the Bronx who struggles to find his identity in a home crowded with family members and a neighborhood of loyal friends and dangerous enemies. After he meets the beautiful Manhattanite Alessandra (Jenna Dewan), his determination to reach toward a wider world and realize his musical dreams becomes even stronger. But he is tied by loyalty to his friends and to his ex-Marine brother, and by the expectations of his frustrated, angry father. As Jay fights to break free of the cycles of anger and violence that grip his life and his neighborhood, he learns that only love can help him grasp his elusive chance at happiness, and comes to a new understanding that helps him take the long, uncertain leap into his future. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| The Losers - Trailer | Wed, Feb 3 12:00 AM |
| An explosive tale of double cross and revenge, “The Losers” centers upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team—Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar —find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they’re joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too - Trailer 2 | Tue, Feb 2 12:00 AM |
| Reuniting the same charismatic cast and characters from his hit comedy/drama, WHY DID I GET MARRIED, Tyler Perry brings us the next chapter in the lives of eight college friends struggling with the challenges of marital life in WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO. Gathered together in the Bahamas for their annual one-week reunion, four close couples eagerly reconnect, sharing news about their lives and relationships. But their intimate week in paradise is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sheila’s ex-husband, Mike, who hopes to break up her new marriage with Troy and win her back. The others soon realize they too are not immune to the challenges of commitment and fidelity. Angela doesn’t believe her husband, Marcus, can be faithful now that he’s a celebrity television newscaster. Dianne and Terry’s relationship is feeling the strain of raising children. And Patricia, a successful self-help psychologist, must finally reveal the deep flaws in her seemingly perfect marriage to Gavin. With their relationships hanging in the balance when they return home, each couple must choose between blame and forgiveness, doubt and faith, with life-altering consequences… | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Happy Tears - Trailer | Tue, Feb 2 12:00 AM |
| Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy something-year-old father Joe (Rip Torn). Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne refuses to believe that their father’s condition is that serious. Jayne’s compulsion to escape reality only increases Laura’s attempts to yank her back down to earth. Meanwhile, Joe still sings and plays the blues on his prized guitar, and the lively widower even has a new “ladyfriend,” shameless and sassy Shelly (Ellen Barkin). But as the visible moments of their father’s impending senility increase, the family dynamics spiral out of control. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives – Laura’s busy environmentalist work schedule and mother of three small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson (Christian Camargo). Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! In the end, any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Shutter Island - TV Spot | Mon, Feb 1 12:00 AM |
| From Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, “Shutter Island” is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the coast of Massachusetts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from the island’s fortress-like hospital for the criminally insane. | Latest Movie Trailers |
| Cats and Dogs: the Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D - Trailer | Mon, Feb 1 12:00 AM |
| In the age-old battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join forces for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves - and their humans - in “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore,” a comedy that blends live action with state-of-the-art puppetry and computer animation. It’s time for the fur to fly. | Latest Movie Trailers |
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| Film: Cue the Director’s Adrenaline | Mon, Feb 8 12:39 PM |
With “Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese finds his next “something else.”
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| Film: Turncoats Who Become Heroes | Fri, Feb 5 06:29 PM |
Why do heroes in films like “Avatar” and “District 9” become the rebels?
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| Film: His Hair’s Not Always Perfect | Fri, Feb 5 09:25 PM |
A field guide to the creatures whose hairy faces paved the way for the newest lupine film.
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| Arts, Briefly: Romance Overtakes ‘Avatar’ | Sun, Feb 7 09:42 PM |
Moviegoers turned their attention to a mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation over the weekend as “Dear John” ended the seven-week run of “Avatar” as the No. 1 movie in North America.
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| Apolitics and the War Film | Sat, Feb 6 03:00 PM |
The director of “The Hurt Locker” stakes a claim on neutrality. Given the agony of our current involvements, it is easy to see why.
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| DVDs: Carnal, Gum-Crackin’ and Dangerous to Know | Fri, Feb 5 05:50 PM |
On DVD this week is “Bad Girls of Film Noir,” a two-volume collection that contains eight little-known titles from the Columbia Pictures archive.
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| He’s So Vain | Fri, Feb 5 09:51 AM |
The life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women.
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| ‘Blind Side’ Finds a Path to the Oscars by Running Up the Middle | Mon, Feb 8 02:32 PM |
The whoops and giggles, heard when “The Blind Side” was announced as a best picture nominee, were the sound of Hollywood surprising itself.
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| Do the 10 Top the 5? Oscar Promoters Say Yes | Thu, Feb 4 09:11 PM |
Now that the nominations have been announced, the grumbling about the decision to move from 5 to 10 best picture nominees has decreased.
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| Movie Review | 'Red Riding Trilogy': Men and Terror Run Wild | Thu, Feb 4 09:24 PM |
The blood that runs through the “Red Riding” trilogy begins as a river that races and then rages until it floods this dank, dark, pitiless world in misery.
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| Movie Review | 'From Paris With Love': Americans Spark the Gunfire in the City of Light | Thu, Feb 4 09:26 PM |
“From Paris With Love,” starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is really a one-sided buddy movie.
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| Movie Review | 'Terribly Happy': Not Exactly a Danish Grover’s Corners | Thu, Feb 4 09:24 PM |
Henrik Ruben Genz’s diabolical comedy “Terribly Happy” assures us that yes, something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark.
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| Movie Review | 'Eyes Wide Open': Passion and Identity Crisis in a Pious Community | Thu, Feb 4 09:31 PM |
“Eyes Wide Open” explores the conflict between sexual desire and religious obligation.
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| Movie Review | 'District 13: Ultimatum': Bouncing and Soaring, With Mayhem in Mind | Thu, Feb 4 09:30 PM |
“District 13: Ultimatum” is pleasurable nonsense and another reminder that one of the great pulls of cinema is the spectacle of bodies in blissful motion.
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| Movie Review | 'Frozen': A Nightmare on a Ski Lift | Fri, Feb 5 05:24 PM |
A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in “Frozen,” a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart.
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| Movie Review | 'Dear John': Young Love Caught in the Grips of 9/11 | Thu, Feb 4 09:22 PM |
“Dear John” may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache.
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| Movie Review | 'Ajami': An Israeli Tale of Communal Mistrust, Without the Finger-Pointing | Tue, Feb 2 11:35 PM |
One of the pleasures of “Ajami” is its deep immersion in the beats and melodies of everyday life in Jaffa and beyond.
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| Movie Review | 'Falling Awake': A Latino Bronx Tale | Thu, Feb 4 09:29 PM |
“Falling Awake” puts good intentions and appealing performances into the balance against clichés of dead-end neighborhoods and rebellious youth.
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| Movie Listings | Thu, Feb 4 09:44 PM |
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| Behind Film’s Drama, a Tale Like a Country Song | Fri, Feb 5 07:17 AM |
A battle is in progress over the estate of Stephen Bruton, the songwriter who co-produced the “Crazy Heart” soundtrack.
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| For Hollywood, Stand-Ins Play California’s Part | Fri, Feb 5 10:50 AM |
Filmmakers are using cheaper locales to stand in for Los Angeles, the capital of the movie industry.
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| Sports and ‘SNL’ Among Muses for Film Festival | Thu, Feb 4 07:19 AM |
Apparently the energy level is up in Austin, Tex., with the announcement of the films in the South by Southwest festival.
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| Angelina Jolie to visit Haiti with UN refugee body
(AP)
| Tue, Feb 9 08:35 AM |
 AP - The U.N. refugee agency says its goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie is heading to Haiti to meet with earthquake victims.
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| Absent Polanski to dominate Berlin film festival
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| Tue, Feb 9 03:17 AM |
| Reuters - Roman Polanski may be under house arrest in a Swiss chalet, but the Polish-French director is set to dominate this year's Berlin film festival where his latest movie "The Ghost Writer" will be unveiled. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| HK studio behind 'TMNT,' 'Astro Boy' shuts down
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| Tue, Feb 9 01:45 AM |
| AP - The Hong Kong studio behind "TMNT" and "Astro Boy" has shut down as its parent company tries to recover from losses. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Tim Robbins plays villain's dad in "Green Lantern"
(Reuters)
| Mon, Feb 8 09:58 PM |
| Reuters - Tim Robbins is joining the cast of "Green Lantern," the superhero movie based on the DC Comics character. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Filmmaker Tyler Perry sued over "Devil" song
(Reuters)
| Mon, Feb 8 09:53 PM |
| Reuters - Tyler Perry has found himself in a bit of copyright trouble lately for allegedly incorporating portions of copyrighted gospel music in his many successful shows. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| 'Avatar' beats "Hurt Locker" in piracy stakes
(Reuters)
| Mon, Feb 8 09:37 PM |
| Reuters - "Avatar" might have tied "The Hurt Locker" for most Oscar nominations last week (with nine apiece), but the sci-fi epic is winning in at least one category: The film once again was the most-pirated movie on the Internet last week, thanks to a DVD screener that leaked onto file-sharing networks. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| "Casino Jack" an overwhelming study of corruption
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| Mon, Feb 8 09:15 PM |
| Reuters - When it came to peddling political access for exorbitant fees, Jack Abramoff was the probably the most powerful lobbyist in Washington over a decade beginning in the mid-90s. Or the most ostentatiously reckless, considering that he's currently serving out a five-year sentence after pleading guilty in 2006 to fraud and conspiracy to bribe government officials. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Peter Bogdanovich boards "Turn of the Century"
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| Mon, Feb 8 09:13 PM |
| Reuters - Peter Bogdanovich will direct and co-write and direct an adaptation of Kurt Andersen's 1999 novel "Turn of the Century." | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Lions Gate, Weinsteins eye Disney's Miramax: sources
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| Mon, Feb 8 06:15 PM |
| Reuters - Lions Gate Entertainment Corp and the Weinstein brothers are among the potential buyers of Walt Disney Co's Miramax film unit, sources familiar with the situation said on Monday. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
| Del Toro says he has soft spot for monsters
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| Mon, Feb 8 04:10 PM |
| AP - Actor Benicio del Toro says he signed on for the lead role in "The Wolfman" remake because he has a soft spot for monsters. | Yahoo! News: Movie News |
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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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