Thursday, March 11, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES GREEN ZONE In 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of inspectors are on a mission to find Iraq’s reported stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. …

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Del Toro’s ‘Wolfman’ is funereal, not fun

Authors and filmmakers have come up with endless ways to inject fresh blood into the vampire, while the werewolf generally has been left out there alone on the moors, howling …

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES ALICE IN WONDERLAND Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood friends: the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, …

Thursday, February 25, 2010

‘Shutter Island’ overdresses an absurd story

Martin Scorsese clearly had a ball making “Shutter Island,” which seemingly hurls everything the director knows about filmmaking up on screen in a blazing, masterful technical triumph. The joy of …

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES COP OUT Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. For Jimmy, the veteran …

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Lots of filler in Potter ripoff

Uma Thurman with snakes for hair and a killer stare is almost enough on her own to make “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” worth seeing. Throw in …

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES THE GHOST WRITER When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it’s the …

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Travolta plays action hero in ‘Paris’

In the space of just a few weeks, we have movies starring Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and John Travolta. It’s like the early 1990s all over again. Nostalgia is on …

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school – but that’s the least of his problems. The …

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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NEW RELEASES DEAR JOHN When a soldier named John Tyree meets an idealistic college student named Savannah Curtis, it’s the beginning of a true romance. Over the next seven tumultuous …

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Mel Gibson makes return in ‘Edge of Darkness’

It has been seven years since his last film, but Mel Gibson is still playing the martyr. One might fairly call Gibson “The Crusader,” and not just because of his …

Thursday, January 28, 2010

‘Tooth Fairy’ full of smiles, cliches

Just weeks after something dubbed a “squeakquel,” we have a movie advertised with the tagline: “You can’t handle the tooth.” One quakes for the marketing that awaits us for “Marmaduke.” …

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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NEW RELEASES EDGE OF DARKNESS As detective Thomas Craven is investigating his activist daughter’s murder, he uncovers a corporate cover-up, along with government collusion that brings the unwanted attention of …

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Denzel saves the world in ‘The Book of Eli’

In the future, according to “The Book of Eli,” we’ll all dress like we’re in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written. Most everyone wears goggles and leather in …

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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NEW RELEASES EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track with a beautiful wife and three children. Just as his career is taking off, his two youngest …

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Stars and scenery carry ‘Leap Year’

The romantic-comedy “Leap Year” gets by, barely, on the charms of its stars and the beauty of its Irish scenery. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode aren’t particularly convincing during the …

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES THE BOOK OF ELI In the not-too-distant future, across the wasteland of what once was America, a lone warrior must fight to bring civilization the knowledge that could …

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Vampire thriller ‘Daybreakers’ is dead on arrival

The only lesson to take away from Ethan Hawke’s horror-action tale “Daybreakers” is that vampires cannot run the world’s affairs any better than we tasty humans can. Set in 2019, …

Thursday, January 7, 2010

On the Couch . . . New on DVD

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, PG. Writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller populate the island of Swallow Falls with wacky characters and let them loose in inventive ways. Take …

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES DAYBREAKERS Ten years after a plague turned most of the world’s population into vampires, a critical blood shortage is causing panic and gruesome mutations within the undead community. …

Sunday, January 3, 2010

‘Thriller,’ Muppets take places in US film history

WASHINGTON – Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, with that unforgettable graveyard dance, will rest among the nation’s treasures in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. The 1983 …

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Eastwood continues streak with Mandela’s story in ‘Invictus’

“Invictus” is a sports film that is more about what’s happening in the stands than on the playing field. It’s South Africa in 1990 and change – as seen in …

Thursday, December 31, 2009

On the Couch . . . New on DVD

9, PG-13. The film, Shane Acker’s feature-length telling of his Oscar-nominated student short, will expose the animator’s talents to a much wider world. Nine burlapped Beowulfian Bravehearts – Acker dubs …

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES CASE 39 A social worker saves a girl from abusive parents but finds there is more to the child than meets the eye. (115 min.) n Starring Renee …

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Audiences surprise movie executives with their choices

HOLLYWOOD – The movie year is ending with a bang – ticket sales have topped $10 billion for the first time ever – but there have been plenty of whimpers …

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Half the fun in ‘Squeakquel’

“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” offers exactly two big laughs for its kiddo target audience – one involves passing gas, the other a shot to the crotch. Since there’s …

Thursday, December 24, 2009

On the Couch . . . New on DVD

ALL ABOUT STEVE, PG-13. This gruesome, almost perversely un-funny movie about a crossword puzzle constructor who obsessively follows a man across the country, may get an asterisk on Sandra Bullock’s …

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES IT’S COMPLICATED Jane is the mother of three grown kids, owns a thriving Santa Barbara bakery/restaurant and has – after a decade of divorce – an amicable relationship …

Thursday, December 17, 2009

On the couch . . . new on DVD

G-FORCE, PG. This aggressively stupid entry in the family-adventure genre from Jerry Bruckheimer is a dispiriting primer on the low regard Hollywood has for the intelligence and curiosity of children …

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Special effects wow, but story limps in ‘Avatar’

When a film brashly asserts that it will change moviemaking forever, one feels the urge to either take its “king of the world” arrogance down a notch or hail it …

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL Alvin, Simon and Theodore take a break from pop-music stardom and return to school. Almost immediately, the tiny tunesmiths are given the …

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES INVICTUS With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, Nelson Mandela tries to unite his countrymen and bring peace by bringing the Rugby World Cup to his country. …

Thursday, December 10, 2009

On the couch . . . New on DVD

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, PG. Love potions, common-room snogging, adolescent heartbreak. It’s hard to blame the film’s screenwriter Steve Kloves or director David Yates for focusing on the …

Thursday, December 3, 2009

‘Ninja Assassin’ sports a dull blade

When considering the meager merits of the bone-snapping, blood-splattered “Ninja Assassin,” it’s best to remember the words of John Goodman’s PC-challenged character in “The Big Lebowski”: “The man in the …

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES - ARMORED A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist . . . …

Thursday, December 3, 2009

On the Couch – New on DVD

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN, PG. The Smithsonian Institution gives a fantastic performance in Ben Stiller’s new family comedy; the museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully …

Thursday, November 26, 2009

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NEW RELEASES FANTASTIC MR. FOX Mr. and Mrs. …

Thursday, November 26, 2009

New DVDs

ANGELS & DEMONS, PG-13. Praying for another $750 million absolution at the global box office, the fairly unholy trinity of Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard and “The Da Vinci Code” …

Thursday, November 26, 2009

‘The Road’ strives, but goes nowhere

In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel “The Road,” no word is repeated so often and with such steady emphasis as “ash.” The stuff is everywhere. It clogs the air, blocking the …

Thursday, November 19, 2009

‘The Blind Side’ focuses on feel-good

The redemption-minded sports flick “The Blind Side” serves its inspiration straight-up with no twist. Writer-director John Lee Hancock wisely lets the true story of Michael Oher – the African-American teen …

Thursday, November 19, 2009

On the Couch: New DVD’s

BRUNO, R. The latest mock-documentary satire from comic provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen was mostly a misfire. Taken from Cohen’s TV program “Da Ali G Show,” Bruno is a gay, Austrian …

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Flickers . . . What’s playing at area theaters

NEW RELEASES THE BLIND SIDE A homeless black teenager, Michael Oher has drifted in and out of the school system for years. Then Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband, Sean, …

Thursday, November 12, 2009

‘Pirate Radio’ has heart – and rock

By ROGER MOORE The Orlando Sentinel Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He’s a British Judd Apatow – indulgent, substituting …

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