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Entertainment: movie reviews

Entertainment: movie reviews

Movie Review : Posing as a Poet for the Sake of a Child’s Education

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:58 PM PDT

Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville in a scene from the comedy "The Best and the Brightest." A repellent comedy thats less fun than a parasite infection, The Best and the Brightest plays like a television pilot written by sexually frustrated

Movie Review: People vs. Nature in This Look at City and Country

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:58 PM PDT

General Orders No. 9 is a tone poem laid over 72 minutes worth of images, many of them lovely, and is, as its press material says, unlike any film you have ever seen. The concept seems bold on first look, but if you stop and break down the ideas that

Movie Review : A Couple United in Self-Absorption

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:58 PM PDT

Endlessly fascinated by the idea that some people are endlessly fascinated with themselves? David Guy Levy has made a movie perfectly suited to you. Other viewers, though, may find themselves measuring whether the irritation level here is higher than the

Movie Review: Bridging Loneliness in Mexico City

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:57 PM PDT

Gustavo Sanchez Parra and Monica del Carmen in "Leap Year." Making sadomasochism appear less erotic than stamp collecting, Leap Year is a slow flare of emotional agony. The prime sufferer is Laura (Mnica del Carmen), a freelance writer whom we first meet

Movie Review | 'Turtle': The Call of the Wild, Heeded With Tenacity

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:57 PM PDT

The trailer for "Turtle: The Incredible Journey" promises more excitement than you might suspect could be packed into a story about loggerhead turtles, a plucky seafarer with high mileage. Since it played at the 2009 Toronto International Film

Emma Thompson to write the script for the new Annie ?

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:49 PM PDT

The wonderfully talented Emma Thompson is negotiating with Will Smith and Jay-Z to write their adaptation of ?Annie?, according to Vulture. Yes, you read correctly- Emma Thompson with Will Smith and Jay-Z. Apparently they?re after her supreme way with

Seth Gordon to bring WarGames back to life

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:49 PM PDT

?WarGames?, the 1983 video-game flick starring none other than Matthew Broderick ? � is in line for a re-boot, with MCM planning a modern age re-telling of the cult classic. The original movie revolves around two teenager computer hackers (a

Men in Black 3 suffering a massive budget blow-out

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:49 PM PDT

The budget for ?Men in Black 3? could blow out to as much as $215 million dollars, because of Will Smith?s massive demands and delays in filming. The Wrap says the star has been making incredibly expensive requests, including asking for a couple of sets

Kings of Leon to write Bond 23 music?

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:49 PM PDT

The boys from Kings of Leon have revealed Daniel Craig?s asked them not once, but THREE times to write the theme music for one of the Bond films. In a Twitter chat with Vue Cinemas they said they?ve knocked him back so far, but are thinking about caving

Bad Teacher

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Elizabeth Halsey (CAMERON DIAZ) is leaving John Adams Middle School after just one year of working there as a teacher, all set to live the life of being married to a sugar daddy. But when her fiancé calls off the engagement, Elizabeth finds herself

Beginners

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Oliver (EWAN McGREGOR) is an introverted thirty-something artist who has not had good relationships with women, but seems to have fallen in love at long last with the emotionally complicated actress Anna (MELANIE LAURENT). As the film opens, though, he

Cars 2

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT

In an alternate world inhabited solely by sentient cars, trucks, and other vehicles, Tow Mater (voice of LARRY THE CABLE GUY) the tow truck is reunited with his race-car friend, Lightning McQueen (voice of OWEN WILSON) who asks him to tag along on a

Movie Review | 'A Love Affair of Sorts': A Couple United in Self-Absorption

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:53 PM PDT

Endlessly fascinated by the idea that some people are endlessly fascinated with themselves? David Guy Levy has made a movie perfectly suited to you. Other viewers, though, may find themselves measuring whether the irritation level here is higher than the

Movie Review | 'Raw Faith': Of Spirituality and a Quest for Romance

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:53 PM PDT

The documentary Raw Faith features two things seldom seen on a movie screen these days: spirituality that doesnt sound maniacal, and older adults who are exploring romance. The film chronicles two years in the life of Marilyn Sewell, a Unitarian minister

Movie Review | 'Leap Year': Bridging Loneliness in Mexico City

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:52 PM PDT

Gustavo Sanchez Parra and Monica del Carmen in "Leap Year." Making sadomasochism appear less erotic than stamp collecting, Leap Year is a slow flare of emotional agony. The prime sufferer is Laura (Mnica del Carmen), a freelance writer whom we first meet

Movie Review | 'Turtle: The Incredible Journey': The Call of the Wild, Heeded With Tenacity

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:22 PM PDT

A scene from "Turtle: The Incredible Journey." The Call of the Wild, Heeded With Tenacity The trailer for "Turtle: The Incredible Journey" promises more excitement than you might suspect could be packed into a story about loggerhead turtles, a plucky

Movie Review | 'A Better Life': Drifting Apart, Struggling Together

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:22 PM PDT

At one point in A Better Life, an emotionally resonant film about how we live now, the director Chris Weitz opens a scene with a pair of adorable, gap-toothed little girls belting into karaoke microphones, giving their charming all to a song with

Movie Review | 'Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop': One Ticked-Off Comic, Venting to the Faithful

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:22 PM PDT

A thin-skinned, hyperkinetic entertainer under stress: that would describe the brash red-headed star, now 48, of Rodman Flenders tour documentary, Conan OBrien Cant Stop. As revealed in the film, this high-strung showoff who often behaves like a fourth

97% Queen Of The Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:55 PM PDT

QUEEN OF THE SUN: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis from Taggart Siegel, director of THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the

Movie Review | 'Cars 2': Sidekick Tries to Tow a Sequel

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:34 AM PDT

A scene from the Pixar film "Cars 2." More Photos � What sidekick has not dreamed of stepping into the limelight? After dinner in their split-level cave, Betty and Barney, convinced that they were the modern stone-age family, must have fantasized about

Silverdocs 2011: ?Give Up Tomorrow? and ?Where Soldiers Come From?

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:26 AM PDT

Cast: Dominic Fredianelli, Cole Smith, Matt "Bodi" Beaudoin (Quincy Hill Films; Silverdocs Documentary Festival: 23 Jun 2011; 2011) Text:AAA Silverdocs 2011: 'Give Up Tomorrow' and 'Where Soldiers Come From' PopMatters Film and TV Editor Like

'Bad Teacher'

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:09 AM PDT

Positioning itself as the academic answer to Bad Santa, Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher threatens a schoolyard tussle but refuses to hit below the belt. Writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg dish up shameless misbehavior but never approach the depravity of

'Cars 2'

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:09 AM PDT

Pixar's 2006 release Cars is widely regarded as among the less dazzling of the animation house's dozen sterling titles, so it's fair to imagine that John Lasseter and his pit crew felt motivated to use extra elbow grease to deliver an improved new model.

Summer Books

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:09 AM PDT

June brings innovative books that caught Hollywood's eye long before they showed up on beach blankets. Robopocalypse (Doubleday; movie rights to Amblin/DreamWorks) Wilson's book about a rogue artificial-intelligence program called Archos that enlists the

Trailer for The Killer Elite starring Statham, Owen, De Niro

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:53 AM PDT

Proud as punch to see Lachy Hulme, one of my old mates and a regular reader of the site, now mixing with the big boys. As my fellow countrymen know, Lachy?s been at it for years, appearing in everything from ?The Matrix? sequels to Oz laffer ?Boytown?

Quick News – June 23, 2011

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 07:53 AM PDT

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Human Rights Watch Film Festival: ?You Don?t Like the Truth?

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:28 AM PDT

Seen via the grainy video footage, Omar Khadr is something of a blur, but his sobs can be heard loud and clear. In 2003, Khadr is just a 16-year-old kid from Canada, but that matters little to the unseen men and women who sit with him in claustrophobic

'Bad Teacher' review

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:14 AM PDT

Cameron Diaz isn't bad, but the movie sure is

Warren Beatty to play Howard Hughes!

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:21 AM PDT

Now this I?m excited about. A we reported that Warren Beatty is working on a film for Paramount that he?ll, not surprisingly, star in, produce, write and direct (and Beatty announced he had plans for another ?Dick Tracy? movie). The prospect of one of

Jason Keller To Adapt Post-Apocalyptic Vampire Tale The Passage

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:21 AM PDT

Jason Keller has been hired by Fox 2000 to adapt Justin Cronin's 2009 novel ?The Passage? from page to screen as revealed by Hollywood Reporter. With vampires and stories of a post-apocalypse currently being all the rage amongst readers,
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