New releases: ‘Spring Breakers’ and ‘The Gatekeepers’
Also reviewed: Paul Weitz’s ‘Admission,’ British cop drama ‘Blood’ and Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers.’ The Gatekeepers
July 6, 2013
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Also reviewed: Paul Weitz’s ‘Admission,’ British cop drama ‘Blood’ and Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers.’ The Gatekeepers
Terrorist plots in movies including ‘Iron Man 3’ and ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ go where Hollywood once feared to tread to give real-life relevance to fantasy. Think you can escape the world’s troubles by heading to the multiplex this summer?
Truth is stranger than fiction, and the Texas Legislature may be stranger than them all.
There’s no tribute more fitting — or eerie — than a well-known actor who dies, then materializes months or years later on the movie screen.
When he’s not dropping albums, fathering babies with reality-show celebrities or feeling uneasy about answering questions, Kanye West has another pursuit: supplying songs to popular movies.    Â
“Man of Steel” and “This is the End” aren’t the only game in town for moviegoers this weekend. If you’re looking for an alternative to the big new summer movies, revival theaters, museums and archives have classics and rarely seen vintage films on tap for this week.
The fifth season of HBO’s vampire series “True Blood” maintained its spot atop the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart, while the action crime film “Gangster Squad” knocked off Tom Cruise’s “Jack Reacher” to take the top spot in rentals. Â Â Â Â
With a pre-fest screening of ‘Man of Steel’ followed by Pedro Almodóvar’s airplane farce ‘I’m So Excited,’ the event opens this week with a broad selection of films. The Los Angeles Film Festival occupies a unique and challenging middle ground
If you’ve been on the Web or social media the past 24 hours, you no doubt have caught some of the arguments about the Writers Guild list of the 101 best TV shows of all time. “The Wire†should be higher! “Seinfeld†over “Sopranos”! And many such unresolvable issues.