At first blush, Woody Allen's latest entry into his grand European tour bears a close resemblance to Monica, the character played by Ellen Page in the film: very pretty to look at and just smart enough to suggest hidden depths, but ultimately a trifle shallow and self-centered. Unlike Monica, however, …
You know, in case you'd forgotten the original. Starring Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Jessica Biel, and Bryan Cranston.
Meryl Streep narrates this film that follows a mother polar bear and her two cubs on a journey through...the Arctic.
Director Terrence Malick turns his camera on the transcendent character of love - an admittedly difficult trick. Love isn't as easy to catch on film as, say, lovers (Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko). But Malick has an eye for turning external landscapes into signposts of the interior life: the island …
A rare unimportant work from the otherwise prolific and fertile mind of Michael Winterbottom. Clearly wanting to direct in as many different types of genre pictures as possible, Winterbottom has already proven to be a whiz when it comes to literary adaptations (The Killer Inside Me, Tristram Shandy: A Cock …
Morris Bliss, who lives at home, gets involved with the barely legal daughter of an ex-classmate in yet another coming-of-age comedy about a slouch in his 30s. This one works, thanks to a charming and highly observant script by novelist Douglas Light and director Michael Knowles. Michael C. Hall leads …
There’s trouble with the terminally cute script in this, Clint Eastwood’s first actor-for-hire job since In the Line of Fire (1993). Clint stars as a corroded baseball scout with three months left on his contract. A severe case of macular degeneration forces him to make every day take-your-estranged-child-to-work day. Clint’s …
A slide into terminal cuteness, as Norwegian teen Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is branded a slut and “pervo” when the boy she desires comes on too strong. Her story is not drama, not comedy, not much at all. Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s frank but trite movie fades into its pale, Nordic photography.
Oh, alas. The fevered emotion of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 — the one where teen bride Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her ageless vampire suitor Edward (Robert Pattinson) get married, get down, and get into trouble when the hybrid fetus that results from their love begins to …
In their heyday, Eugene Levy and the rest of the satirically contemptuous gang at SCTV would have had a field day gutting a formulaic mixed-message trafficker like Tyler Perry. Now? I know that standout comedic supporting players gotta eat, but does Perry own compromising Polaroids of Levy with barnyard animals? …
Not the Sarah Palin documentary, nor the John Wayne Western. In this documentary, coach Bill Courtney turns around a high school football team in North Memphis, Tennessee. He is a remarkable man, not a plaster hero. The struggle to make the school’s first playoff in 110 years becomes less involving …
Kate Beckinsale slithers into Selene’s vinyl catsuit once again for another round of Vampires vs. Werewolves...er, Lycans. Happily, much of the grandiose mythology has given way to scientific scheming and old-fashioned monster-movie fun. Specifically, the old-fashioned monster movies of Hammer Films, complete with glowering Brits (Charles Dance, channeling both Peter …
If you liked The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Quartet, why not seek professional help? Seriously, if those films define your idea of time well spent at the movies, purchase tickets in advance for this. An irascible retiree (Terence Stamp) refuses to join his dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) and her …
A successful author of neo-gothic thrillers (André Dussollier) looking for a place to write meets model-turned-realtor Carole Bouquet and proposes on the spot. He confesses to his daughter (Mélanie Thierry) an inability to write when he’s in love, so the spiteful lass promptly decides to reward her old man with …
A story of estranged sisters at opposite places in their lives. Starring Tammy Blanchard, Mira Sorvino and Michael Rispoli.