EAST GREENBUSH — After stealing a Blu-ray player and a pair of Keurig coffee brewers from Wal-Mart, police said, two women led cops on wild car chase that only ended when the thieves crashed in Troy. Around 1 a.m
With this in mind, I offer a list of 12 things I learned from movies that aren’t true at all. There’s a moment in “Up in the Air” when George Clooney comes home and pours himself a big fat drink that, for a moment, made me think I wasn’t drinking enough.
The new movie, “Closed Circuit,” is playing in area theaters.
Several intriguing releases hit video shelves in August, with the highest profile going to Based on Suzanne Collins’ teen novels, it crosses influences like “The Most Dangerous Game†(hunting humans), “Lord of the Flies†(kids on an island), “Survivor†(TV show) and even the Japanese “Battle Royale†(all of the above) for a new generation, as helmed by intelligent writer-director Gary Ross. “A …
Compared to his father, Roger (Olivier Gourmet), who exploits illegal immigrants for a living and is raising his son to carry on the family business, Igor (Jeremie Renier) is at least recognizably human.
The Movies by Moonlight summer film series in HemisFair Park gets started this week with “Brave,†an animated tale of an independent-minded Scottish lass who’d rather chart her own path than follow tradition.
Hot movies hit the video store “Mud†with Matthew McConaughey as a shady fellow who charms two boys into believing his stories about how he’s running away to meet his sweetie (Reese Witherspoon). “Vanishing Waves†is about a man who keys into the dreams of a comatose woman and begins a passionate, complicated and dangerous affair.
“The World’s End,” the final installment in a trilogy of British-made comedies, is now playing in area movie theaters. Photo: Contributed Photo In advance of the nationwide opening of the newest installment in this trilogy of British comedies, several theaters have booked marathon back-to-back showings of “Shaun of the Dead” (2004) and “Hot Fuzz” (2007). Known as the “Three Flavours: Cornetto …