The holiday spirit is eluding Hollywood, which has stumbled through its worst two weekends of 2011 at the box office at a time of year when business usually starts to pick up. Overall domestic revenues for the past…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) George Rush runs one of the best junior college football programs in the country at City College of San Francisco – a place where players with big dreams who either are not recruited by big…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Seven years ago, when Criterion released this 1939 classic from director Jean Renoir, it seemed like the last word in home entertainment. A DVD could not get better. Criterion actually delayed…
Opening Friday Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey A Dangerous Method Footprints The Love We Make Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Tinker Tailor…
Feature: “The Bait” (2009), “Cheaper to Keep Her” (2011), “Cowboys & Aliens” (2011), “The Debt” (2010), “Design for Living” (1933), “The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition” (various dates), “Elvira’s Movie Macabre:…
Another Happy Day Golf in the Kingdom New Year’s Eve Outrage The Sitter A Warrior’s Heart
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Ingmar Bergman announced his retirement after making this film in 1982. A family epic, it begins on Christmas 1907 and revisits all the grand Bergman subjects – God, death, marriage, infidelity,…
There are always one or two names on your holiday shopping list that cause trouble.
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Another Earth A mirror Earth pops up in the night sky – and a young woman (co-writer Brit Marling) stares at it, crashing into a family and killing all but the dad (William Mapother). In its most…
Feature: “Another Earth” (2011), “The Art of Getting By” (2011), “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” (2010), “Chillerama” (2011), “Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!” (various dates), “5 Days of War” (2011), “From Dusk Till Dawn:…