viernes, 15 de julio de 2011

Entertainment: movie reviews

Entertainment: movie reviews


Trailer for van Heijningen’s Thing !

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 12:17 AM PDT

The prequel to the horror classic ?The Thing? has been granted a trailer; my first impressions? Yeah, this looks pretty darn good. I love Mary Elizabeth Winstead (who seems to have, bits aside, the ?Kurt Russell? part this time ?round) and Joel Edgerton

An Unknown director hired for WB’s Akira

Posted: 15 Jul 2011 12:17 AM PDT

?Unknown? helmer Jaume Collet-Serra will direct a stripped-back version of ?Akira? for the WB, says THR. The project, which been in development for about three years, was at one time set to be a stoutly-budgeted blockbuster with Albert Hughes piloting

Movie Review: Just About Anything for Love

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:53 PM PDT

Colin Hanks in a scene from "Lucky." The unlikely convergence of an opportunistic blonde, a nerdy lottery winner and a clutch of missing persons forms the spine of Lucky, an off-kilter romantic comedy suggesting that women like Meat Loaf will do just

Movie Review: A Soldier and a Fractured Fairy Tale

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:53 PM PDT

Shot on 16-millimeter film out in the forest on what must have been a tiny budget, Alex Ross Perrys Impolex deploys the open-ended, low-affect style favored by many young do-it-yourself filmmakers to a grab bag of genres. Taking place just after World

Movie Review: The Cult of Running

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:53 PM PDT

Maybe youve been corralled by someone who wants to bend your ear for 90 minutes about his fantasy baseball team or his Hummel figurine collection, though youre not a fantasy baseball player or figurine collector. Such people seem not to grasp the cutoff

Movie Review: A Kindhearted Man in a Small Town

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:53 PM PDT

Justin Lerner's debut feature, "Girlfriend," is set and shot in his Massachusetts hometown, and the story is built around a man in his 20s named Evan, a character inspired by, and played by, a local actor with Down syndrome, Evan Sneider. As you

Movie Review : A Kidnap Thriller Cuts It Close

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:53 PM PDT

Alexandra Meierhans and Michael Godere, as a hitchhiker, in "Daylight," a psychological thriller directed by David Barker. A troubled marriage swerves toward catastrophe in Daylight, an unusually delicate psychological thriller that favors suggestion

First look at Colin Farrell in Total Recall

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:12 PM PDT

The Film Stage has debuted the first official look at Colin Farrell in Len Wiseman's (?Live Free or Die Hard?) remake of ?Total Recall? via the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. Also starring Bryan Cranston & Kate Beckinsale, the upcoming sci-fi

The Cynical Optimist: Deathly Hallows Part 2

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:12 PM PDT

Plot Synopsis: With ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2?, the eighth and final film in the Harry Potter saga, Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Voldemort?s three remaining Horcruxes ? items of a

?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2? Is Awfully Literal

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:17 PM PDT

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' Is Awfully Literal PopMatters Film and TV Editor Literally For all their focus on magic, the Harry Potter movies are awfully literal. For all the whimsy and dreams the books might inspire, the film franchise

Movie Review | 'Lucky': Just About Anything for Love

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT

The unlikely convergence of an opportunistic blonde, a nerdy lottery winner and a clutch of missing persons forms the spine of "Lucky," an off-kilter romantic comedy suggesting that women — like Meat Loaf — will do just about anything for love.

Movie Review | 'Impolex': A Soldier and a Fractured Fairy Tale

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Riley O'Bryan stars in "Impolex" directed by Alex Ross Perry. A Soldier and a Fractured Fairy Tale Published: July 14, 2011 Shot on 16-millimeter film out in the forest on what must have been a tiny budget, Alex Ross Perry's "Impolex" deploys the

Movie Review | 'Hood to Coast': The Cult of Running

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Maybe youve been corralled by someone who wants to bend your ear for 90 minutes about his fantasy baseball team or his Hummel figurine collection, though youre not a fantasy baseball player or figurine collector. Such people seem not to grasp the cutoff

Movie Review | 'Girlfriend': A Kindhearted Man in a Small Town

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Justin Lerner's debut feature, "Girlfriend," is set and shot in his Massachusetts hometown, and the story is built around a man in his 20s named Evan, a character inspired by, and played by, a local actor with Down syndrome, Evan Sneider. As you

Movie Review | 'Daylight': A Kidnap Thriller Cuts It Close

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Alexandra Meierhans and Michael Godere, as a hitchhiker, in "Daylight," a psychological thriller directed by David Barker. A troubled marriage swerves toward catastrophe in Daylight, an unusually delicate psychological thriller that favors suggestion

Movie Review | 'The Tree': A Tree That Shelters Animal Life and Maybe Even a Dead Parent

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Sadness and longing haunt the films of the French director Julie Bertuccelli, whose gorgeous second feature, The Tree, is set in Queensland, Australia, on the outskirts of Brisbane. Here, on the edge of the outback, the environment is so luminous that

Movie Review | 'Salvation Boulevard': An Evangelist, an Atheist and a Murder That Tests Faith

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT

A scene from "Salvation Boulevard," with Pierce Brosnan. The American culture war, that combustible, stupefying cocktail of religion, sex, politics and everything else that gets people hot and bothered, represents a rich vein of satiric and dramatic

Movie Review | 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan': Ties That Bind: Life-Sustaining Friendships Transcending Life’s Brutalities

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Li Bingbing, left, and Gianna Jun in "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," based on a best-selling novel by Lisa See.

Movie Review | 'Winnie the Pooh': Hundred Acre Gang Is Back in Town

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore in "Winnie the Pooh," in which the pitfalls of language usage drive the plot (as Pooh, of course, still searches for honey). It may be easiest to describe Winnie the Pooh, an ever so slight,

Movie Review | 'The Chameleon': A ‘Who Is It?’ More Than a Whodunit

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 04:57 PM PDT

The Chameleon fictionalizes an especially colorful chapter in the believe-it-or-not true story of Frdric Bourdin, a French-born serial impostor and master of disguise who assumed scores of identities, especially those of missing teenagers. The movie

Movie Review | 'Life, Above All': Burdened in a Ravaged South Africa

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT

Life, Above All, a grave and quietly moving story about a South African girl of extraordinary character, does something that few painful dramas accomplish: It tells a tale of resilience without platitudes about the triumph of the human spirit or without

Movie Review | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ‘Manacled Mormon’ and His Kinky Weekend

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT

By virtue of its title alone, "Tabloid," Errol Morris's astonishing new documentary, achieves a degree of serendipitous timeliness. Mr. Morris, as usual unseen, though occasionally heard shouting questions from off screen, trains his prying,

Lucky: Film Review

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 02:21 PM PDT

Blame Lucky on those late-night TV appearances of classic Ealing Studios comedies, especially The Ladykillers (1955) with Alex Guinness as a criminal "mastermind" determined to kill a sweet old lady only things never go as planned. It must look so

Critic?s Notebook | ?Harry Potter? Is Dead, but Its Corporate Overlords Live On

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 11:28 AM PDT

In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," Daniel Radcliffe's young wizard receives advice from the ghost of his mentor, Albus Dumbledore: "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living." Dumbledore's words also apply to the would-be

indieWIRE Does Hulu: We Pick Our Favorite Docs About the American Dream (or the lack thereof)

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:43 AM PDT

For this edition of indieWIRE at Hulu Docs - iW's regular curation of Hulu's Documentaries page - we're very loosely tying into this month's connection with patriotism and national celebration by looking at a selection of films addressing the

True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård sinks his teeth into Viking movie

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:29 AM PDT

Looks like "True Blood" star Alexander Skarsgård is looking to get into more films outside of the vampire world. The Swedish actor is set to star and produce in a new film for Warner Bros. about vikings according to Variety. The article claims that

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:29 AM PDT

What began as the story of a boy's wondrous introduction into a limitless world of magic ends in an epic display of war, death, and desire for peace. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is the final chapter in the longstanding fantasy

Deadwood alum Dickens boards Zac Efron thriller

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:29 AM PDT

?Deadwood? alum Kim Dickens has been cast opposite Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron in ?Heartland?, says Deadline. The flick ?revolves around a traditional father (Quaid) who wishes for his race-car driver son (Efron) to take over the family-run seed business

Some great new Amazing Spider-Man Pics Online!

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:29 AM PDT

A sneak peek at the upcoming EW cover and cover story for ?The Amazing Spider-Man? has gotten caught up in the web. The low-res pics were previewed on TVs ?The Insider?; they feature Andrew Garfield as Spidey/Peter Parker, Emma Stone a Gwen Stacy and

Harry Potter: Graduation Day

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 05:46 AM PDT

My childhood is going to end on Thursday night," reported a 19-year-old over the weekend who had already bought her ticket to the midnight unveiling of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. She's one of millions -- the class of Harry Potter is

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