Pretty Old: Film Review
This heartwarming documentary offers some fresh, new wrinkles in pageantry. Venue Santa Barbara International Film Festival Director Walter Matteson The documentary, playing at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, centers on a senior beautymore
Joe Carnahan to write and direct a remake of Bronson classic Death Wish
Could?ve sworn just a few days ago, when talking to him at the junket for ?The Grey?, that Joe Carnahan suggested he?ll be staying away from big-studio franchisey things that?d get him sneers and projectile-spat-at from now on. Carnahan, whose Liammore
Sundance Review: Richard Gere Shines In The Gripping Moral Morass Of 'Arbitrage'
Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is celebrating his 60th birthday at the start of "Arbitrage," first with his family ? including wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon) and daughter/chief financial officer Brooke (Brit Marling) ? and then with his mistress, Juliemore
Sundance Review: 'Save The Date' Is Light & Endearing Without Being Insubstantial; What Other Rom-Coms Should Aspire To
With the countless number of romantic comedies focused on how difficult it is for a woman to find a good man, it?s incredibly refreshing to see one where the tables are turned. In ?Save The Date,? Lizzy Caplan stars as Sarah, a strugglingmore
One of the most suprising and effective survival films of in a long time, 'The Grey' is a nerve-wracking drama that wrings quite a lot from very little while submitting willing viewers to a glimpse of an icy hell on earth. It's hard to believe it's from d
One of the most suprising and effective survival films of in a long time, "The Grey" is a nerve-wracking drama that wrings quite a lot from very little while submitting willing viewers to a glimpse of an icy hell on earth. It's hard to believe it's frommore
Like Crazy, Drake Doremus, 90 mins (12) The Grey, Joe Carnahan, 117 mins (15)
Its star-crossed lovers, Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin, fall for each other just before they graduate from a Los Angeles university, but when Jones outstays her visa, and then tries to return to the US after a trip home to England, she isn't allowedmore
Animation Spotlight: Sundance Film Review
PARK CITY Entrancing technique met a mixed bag of content in this year's Animation Spotlight, where everything from scratchy pen-and-ink to polished CG was represented -- with the notable absence of any wholly abstract shorts. Though most of the filmsmore
Stephan Elliott
became a major name in Australian filmmaking back in the 90s ater directing the hit ?The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?. He?s back with his first Aussie film since ? the wedding disaster comedy ? ?A Few Best Men?, starring Xavier Samuel,more
Exclusive : Story Specs for CW?s Beauty and the Beast reboot
The CW?s contemporary reboot of ?Beauty & The Beast? will be flashy, funky and less schmaltzy than the ?80s original. But will the network be able to find actors as adorably apt as Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton to play the title characters? I thinkmore
SUNDANCE REVIEW: Paul Dano's Best Performance Yet is in So Yong Kim's 'For Ellen'
Paul Dano in "For Ellen." Nobody else could fit the role of a crestfallen rocker that Paul Dano embodies in director So Yong Kim's remarkable "For Ellen." Kim's delicate feature takes the conventional deadbeat dad formula and rejuvenates it by lettingmore
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Drive; Crazy Stupid Love; What's Your Number? A sound somewhere between a muffled cheer and a collective sigh of relief could be heard echoing around the hushed corridors of the "British film industry" last Tuesday when themore
?Come Back, Africa? Tells Many Stories
I will look for you until I find you. When the sun sets and the cattle come back, I think about you. ?Miriam Makeba, ?Lakutshon llanga? Late in , Vinah (Vinah Bendile) learns that her husband, Zachariah (Zacharia Mgabi), has been arrested. It?s 1959 inmore
?Namath?: Broadway Joe Looks Back
?I looked over to the sideline, and there stood this fellow in a little sport coat and a tie, and a small hat with a feather in it, and he had a toothpick in his mouth,? remembers former Crimson Tide center Gaylon McCollough. ?And I said, ?Who ismore
Romancing the Stone VS Six Days, Seven Nights
?Romancing the Stone? was the first of several films by Spielberg protege Robert Zemeckis that mixed action, comedy and special effects to great success. ?Like what?? you ask? Hello?McFly?! It?s hard to imagine now, even as rumors of a remake aremore
Elizabeth Banks reunites with her 40 Year Old Virgin co-stars Carell and Keener
Banks reunites with her ?40 Year-Old Virgin? co-stars Carell and Keener on the musical satire. Carell will play the film director, Black is the online film critic, Cage plays an actor who is famous for his high-concept films, while Kline will play themore
The Grey
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One for the Money
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Exclusive : Clint?s got story deets on the CW?s Beauty & the Beast series
The CW?s contemporary reboot of ?Beauty & The Beast? will be flashy, funky and less schmaltzy than the ?80s original. But will the network be able to find actors as adorably apt as Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton to play the title characters? I thinkmore
Quick News ? January 28, 2011
Amazon Studio?s ?The Temple?, motion comic about U.S. special operation soldiers who come across a supernatural force while tracking a wanted terrorist through no-man?s land between Afghanistan and Pakistan, is now online ? to stream for free. The Alexmore
Movie Review: ?The Wicker Tree,? Companion to a 1973 Cult Classic
Pagan Scots party down in loincloths in ?The Wicker Tree,? directed by Robin Hardy. Its easy to see why the British writer-director Robin Hardy would want to reimagine his 1973 cult horror classic The Wicker Man. Take one glimpse at Neil LaButesmore
Movie Review: Katherine Heigl in Film Based on Janet Evanovich Novel
Katherine Heigl and Daniel Sunjata in ?One for the Money,? directed by Julie Anne Robinson. One for the Money, the latest Katherine Heigl vehicle to park itself in the multiplexes, is also the title of a best-selling novel by Janet Evanovich. It ismore
The Grey (15)
But it turns out to be a belter. Neeson plays a man whose death wish seems to have been answered when the plane carrying him and other oil-rig roughnecks goes down in the snowy wastes of Alaska. He and a handful of survivors stumble from the wreckage,more
Patience (After Sebald) (15)
The German expatriate W G Sebald (1944-2001) is celebrated in this thoughtful film-meditation that apes the eclectic nature of his visionary writings ? an unclassifiable compendium of fiction, memoir, travel, history, and warning.more
A Monster in Paris 3D (U)
Then it becomes something else as the cineaste and his manic inventor friend accidentally create a monster out of a flea ? which via a long story goes from hopping over the rooftops to playing guitar at a louche Paris nightclub. Vanessa Paradis voicesmore
DVD: Merlin: Series 4 (12)
The success of this mythical hokum rests largely on the love story between Merlin (Colin Morgan) and Prince Arthur (Bradley James) ? Guinevere barely gets a look in as the heroes make eyes at each other. Katie McGrath is suitably hammy as the wickedmore
Like Crazy (12A)
The writer-director Drake Doremus has made something a little classier than your traditional romcom, thanks largely to his young and soon-to-be-famous leads.more
Intruders (15)
The puzzle of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's film is how its dual stories will link up. The first, in Madrid, concerns the nightmares of a young boy (Izá* Corchero), who fears being snatched away by a hooded intruder he calls Hollowface. The second, inmore
House of Tolerance (18)
Set almost entirely within a well-appointed brothel, it is less a drama than an unfolding fresco describing the everyday routine of its inmates and the dangers of their trade ? from disease, age, addiction, and the occasional savagery of the rich malemore
DVD: Drive (18)
There was a lot of fuss made about this modern-day Western ? it's sort of like Shane, only with cars not horses ? upon its cinema release, and Nicolas Winding Refn's slick, violent thriller has a lot to recommend it: Albert Brooks's abhorrent Mobmore
DVD: Crazy Stupid Love (12)
However, this film isn't really about these two, but about Cal (Steve Carell) and the disintegration of his marriage to weepy Emily (Julianne Moore). She informs him that she wants a divorce over dinner in the opening scene, before admitting that shemore