With this in mind, I offer a list of 12 things I learned from movies that aren’t true at all. There’s a moment in “Up in the Air” when George Clooney comes home and pours himself a big fat drink that, for a moment, made me think I wasn’t drinking enough.
Several intriguing releases hit video shelves in August, with the highest profile going to Based on Suzanne Collins’ teen novels, it crosses influences like “The Most Dangerous Game†(hunting humans), “Lord of the Flies†(kids on an island), “Survivor†(TV show) and even the Japanese “Battle Royale†(all of the above) for a new generation, as helmed by intelligent writer-director Gary Ross. “A …
Compared to his father, Roger (Olivier Gourmet), who exploits illegal immigrants for a living and is raising his son to carry on the family business, Igor (Jeremie Renier) is at least recognizably human.
The Movies by Moonlight summer film series in HemisFair Park gets started this week with “Brave,†an animated tale of an independent-minded Scottish lass who’d rather chart her own path than follow tradition.
Vast majority of theaters have changed to digital projection.
Credit: Stringer/Getty Images As we learned last week, many of our favorite boyhood flicks are better left in the past. Fortunately, there are plenty of films from our youth that, aside from standing the test of time, were integral to our development into the strong, successful, unflappable supermen we are today. As we enjoy the
Photo: YouTube “Dude, I love that movie!” Ehh, are you sure about that? Because the last time you saw it, you were 11 years old. You might want to give it a good re-watch and see how your grown-up brain feels.
You’ll find an entry on Lyle Talbot (1902-1996) in some movie encyclopedias, but not in others. In the early 1930s, he was under contract to Warner Bros., often playing “weak-willed malefactors.†His co-stars included Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard and Mae West, but he wasn’t charismatic enough to build a picture around, and the studio eventually let him go. He ended up making something like …
The new science fiction adÂvenÂture “Looper†bears the unmistakable imaginative signature of its maker, writer-director Rian Johnson.
We go to the movies to dream.