April 3, 2012
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The Kid With a Bike: The Belgian filmmaking Dardenne brothers are back with this subtle, well-acted, seemingly impassive but ultimately emotional slice of life, about a boy who has been abandoned by his parents and his…
Reviewed by Peter Hartlaub and Mick LaSalle RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) A Dangerous Method In this latest from David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen is a compelling and twisted Freud, Michael Fassbender is a somewhat…
The latest Transformers animated series debuted in 2010 with the 5-part “Darkness Rising†mini-series and continuing with a 21-episode season 1 run. The series is broadcast on the HUB network. Transformers Prime exists in its own continuity although there are veiled references throughout to other Transformers shows. …
Why are we so preoccupied with a doomed future in movies? Take “The Hunger Games,†for example (which opened Friday).
21 Jump Street: Based on the 1980s TV series, this movie takes the name and the part where young cops infiltrate high schools, and then mocks pretty much everything else, with plenty of success. Channing Tatum holds his…
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Carnage Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s scathing comedy – about misbehavior between kids and malice among parents – is stagy and unrealistic. But it’s well shot, filled with the…
Feature: “Amor en Transito” (2010), “Battle Royale” (2000), “Carnage” (2011), “Gainsbourg” (2012), “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” (2011), “The Hills Have Eyes: Part Two” (1985), “In the Garden of Sounds” (2009), “…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – HBO’s award-winning fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” has earned a new crown: the largest first-week DVD sales among any series in the cable network’s history. Season one DVD sales reached about 350,000 units in the first seven days following its March 6 release, the network said on Thursday.
In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of movies adapted from television shows. The latest film, “21 Jump Street,” is at Bay Area theaters. (…