Video| Holiday movies: A video guide
As 2012 ends, some of the most anticipated films of the year are hitting theaters, including “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Django Unchained” and “Les Miserables.¿
December 25, 2012
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As 2012 ends, some of the most anticipated films of the year are hitting theaters, including “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Django Unchained” and “Les Miserables.¿
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 21 Sulley, the main monster, is the warm heart of Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.,” which although a bit indulgent of its star power at times, is funny and sweet enough to delight kids and inventive enough to satisfy adults
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 14 Killing Them Softly Brad Pitt stars as a hit man who has come to town to straighten out a crisis of confidence within a gambling community, in a clever, dramatic and yet often very funny crime drama with parallels to the 2008 financial crisis.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 11 Kino Classics Remastered” (1972), “Beloved” (2011), “The Bourne Legacy” (2012), “Collision Earth” (2011), “Darken” (2012), “Doomsday Book” (2012), “Dreams of a Life” (2011), “Following” (1999), “Gangsters, Guns and Zombies” (2012), “Hemo” (2010), “Kill ‘Em All” (2012), “Mansome” (2012), “Miami Connection” (1987), “Mr. Bricks” (2011), “Night Claws” (2012), “Osombie …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 7 Never Sorry Alison Klayman’s portrait of China’s most famous and fractious contemporary artist sketches the spectrum of his art and political activism, and the troubles and global sympathy they have brought him
What movies to see this week, Dec. 7 Lincoln An amazing film from Steven Spielberg featuring one of the year’s best performances, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, working every possible angle to pass the 13th Amendment in the waning days of the Civil War. Holy Motors The latest unclassifiable film from the eccentric French director Leos Carax follows a man as he drives around in a …
DVD review: ‘Fanny, Annie & Danny’ Fanny’s sister Annie (Carlye Pollack), about to marry a sympathetic druggie (Nick Frangione), gets more bad-mouthing from Mom, while brother Danny (Jonathan Leveck) shows up solely to bilk his siblings out of their dough – and stick it to Mom. Poor Dad (George Killingsworth), a Vietnam War veteran and a lost soul in the grasp of his shrieking, show-no-mercy …
DVD review: ‘Jolene’ A decade later he cast a Juilliard graduate named Jessica Chastain in her first movie role as the title character in “Jolene.” A magnet to men, she winds up married to a bigamist and to an abusive religious zealot and in relationships with a Las Vegas mobster (a compelling Chazz Palminteri) and with a female warden (Frances Fisher) at a mental hospital where Jolene is …
Movies to see this weekend, Nov. 23 Flight One of the best plane-crash sequences in all of film highlights this drama about a gifted pilot, suffering from alcoholism, on a collision course with authorities and his own illness. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington, the film is also notable for Kelly Reilly, who does strong work as a heroin addict struggling with her own …