“Naked”: Despicable characters do cruel things to each other in “Naked.” Director Mike Leigh (“Vera Drake”) tempts us into this corrosive world and never lets go, as anti-hero Johnny wanders parts of London you wouldn’t dare be in after dark.
A new season of “The Donna Reed Show†is being released on DVD, giving viewers a look back at what seemed like a simpler, more prosperous epoch.
Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are firmly booted into the gothic shade by Pedro Almodóvar’s fantastically bonkers plastic-surgery horror.
The Artist This is the month they release the masterpieces, and that’s what this film is.
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Blackthorn A somber, reflective and very different Western – set in the high plains and salt flats of Bolivia – it tells the story of Butch Cassidy’s later days, when the whole world thought he…
“You are asking me to extinguish myself,” Latif pleads with Uday Hussein. The eldest son of despot Saddam has just asked Latif to be his body double; the soldier is understandably reluctant.
Ben Wheatley’s deeply unsettling thriller/horror begins with a flaming domestic row between mordant Jay (Neil Maskell) and Shel (MyAnna Buring).
Another Underworld film, another double-dip.
[1] Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws will finally be released in high definition Blu-ray on August 14th 2012.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 New movies The Adventures of Tintin The gist: Steven Spielberg’s first animated movie is a 3-D CGI adaptation of an 82-year-old Belgian comic strip about a young reporter who gets into adventures way more exciting than being chained to a desk writing movie capsules all day. PG The cast: Voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Toby …