Jesse Eisenberg (so hilarious in The Social Network) joins Melissa Leo (equally hilarious in The Fighter) and Tracy Morgan (occasionally hilarious on 30 Rock) for the always-reliable classical-musician-meets-drug-dealer combo.
Four friends vacationing from Australia (Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer, and Anthony Starr) party the night away at a remote Cambodian holiday destination only to wake the next morning with big heads, minus a chum, and unable to recall the events of the previous evening. It’s not an implausible …
Daniel Radcliffe takes his first (modest) steps away from Harry Potter. Wisely, he does not stray too far: It’s still England, there are still ghosts to deal with, and the setting is still otherworldly. Only here, it’s a haunted house in Victorian times. Director James Watkins gets the rotting look …
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis are moms on a mission to battle the bureaucracy and transform the teachers at a struggling school and create an inner-city institution of educational excellence.
Those expecting a Jean-Paul Sartre biopic will be disappointed to find instead the uninspired tale of a plagiarist. While honeymooning in Paris, a struggling young writer (Bradley Cooper) discovers a hand-written manuscript hidden inside the battered attache case his wife (Zoe Saldana) finds in an antique store. Five years later, …
Long ago, Zeus used the Spear of Something or Other to defeat his father Cronos, now imprisoned in Tartarus. But now people have stopped praying, and the gods’ work — Tartarus included — is coming undone. What to do? Reassemble the Spear, of course, and make sure half-human Perseus handles …
What a concept: children's playthings with human neuroses. Oh, wait, this isn't Toy Story? Nope, just a Disney rehash of same, substituting video game characters for action figures. You know - it's what the kids are into these days, even if there is a hefty dose of Gen-X nostalgia to …
A ten-years-on followup to the gay Israeli wartime love story Yossi & Jagger. Yossi - a closeted, aging, thickening Israeli doctor - hasn't had a lover since Jagger's death during a nighttime ambush. Lover? He hasn't had a life. (Nothing says "quiet desperation" like a scene of a man unbuttoning …
Spoiler alert: it ends with the bad guy getting killed. More hurt from Kathryn Bigelow in this docudrama (read: hand-held) account of the hunt for Usama Bin Laden. From its conception to execution, the American government’s “Yippee ki yay!” murder of Bin Laden had Hollywood blockbuster written all over it. …