“I am surprised to hear that Aristotle is on the syllabus in the State of Wisconsin,†maintains a haughty don in Harold Pinter’s deft adaptation of Nicholas Mosley’s novel.    Â
Channing Tatum’s best-reviewed movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Channing Tatum’s best-reviewed films. The figure listed is the percentage of critics who have rated the film positively, based on reviews listed at rottentomatoes.com.
It’s been a busy few years for Radric Davis (a/k/a Gucci Mane). The enigmatic Atlanta trap rapper and anti-establishment figure was incarcerated, institutionalized, had an ice cream cone tattooed to his face, signed with a major record label and embraced the system while reeling off a prolific run of ambitious mixtapes outside of it.
Which movies to see this weekend, March 22 The Incredible Burt Wonderstone This comedy about Las Vegas magicians, starring Steve Carell, would be a borderline case were it not for Jim Carrey, who is hysterically funny in the supporting role of a crazy, masochistic street magician.
New on DVD and Blu – ray , March 22 Bachelorette Three skinny, self-absorbed, drug-snorting snots (Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher) accidentally tear the wedding dress of an overweight friend (Rebel Wilson) and set off on a wee-hours crusade to fix it. The Big Picture Based on Douglas Kennedy’s 1997 novel, this ambitious French thriller focuses on a Parisian lawyer (Romain Duris) who …
Which movies to see this weekend, March 15 Emperor Practically a study in how to make very little drama go a very long way, this film tells a semi-fictional tale of Gen.
New on DVD and Blu – ray , March 15 An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology Tiffany Shlain’s documentary uneasily mixes an optimistic view of new technology (“The Internet is rewiring our brains to think interdependently”) with a touching tribute to her late father, the surgeon and author Leonard Shlain.
Which movies to see this weekend, March 8 Beautiful Creatures This story of a mortal boy and the witch girl he loves, based on the popular novel, presses all the teenage-angst buttons that would seem to guarantee commercial success. Side Effects Steven Soderbergh’s well-acted, nicely plotted thriller tells the story of a young woman (Rooney Mara) whose psychiatrist (Jude Law) prescribes a mood …
DVD review: ‘The Jazz Singer’ Historically, the most important scene in the film is the one in which Al Jolson, as a cantor’s son turned secular entertainer, ad libs dialogue as he plays the piano and sings for his mother. The naturalness of that interchange followed by the stiffness of the silent sequence that followed was said to have doomed silent films.
DVD review: ‘Fear and Desire’ Fans of the great director Stanley Kubrick will want to have “Fear and Desire,” his first film, made 50 years ago and until recently available only in bootlegged copies. Four soldiers – their country is not identified – crash-land behind enemy lines and then develop a plan to get back to their unit. Look for Paul Mazursky as a private named Sidney who cracks under …