Movies opening Friday, Jan. 4 Taking its name from a famous street that hugs the Mississippi, this documentary about a foray into the mystical city pulsates from a heady brew of groovy tunes, luscious food, fanciful characters and shadowy escapades
‘La Boheme’ reimagined 2 ways on DVD Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Jan. 1 Feature: “Cosmopolis” (2012), “The Dynamiter” (2011), “Little Birds” (2011), “Looper” (released Monday) (2012), “Norman Wisdom Double Feature, Volume One: Trouble in Store and One Good Turn” (1953, ’54), “Overtime” (2011), “Putin’s Kiss” (released Monday) (2012), “Saltwater” (released Monday) (2012), “The Trouble With Bliss” (2012), “War of the Dead” (2011), “Will …
it’s time to introduce a basement category, a beneath-contempt classification for movies that are truly horrible but are perhaps intended to be horrible, so to acknowledge them among the worst would be to do them a perverse honor. In that category this year, we find “The Collection,†about a masked maniac who tricks a lot of very naive young people into thinking they’re at a nightclub …
DVD review: ‘Purple Noon’ “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” a 1955 psychological thriller about a charming serial killer, has the distinction of having been turned into a movie twice, most recently in 1999 by Anthony Minghella – the director’s finest hour
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 28 Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western, about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife from an evil plantation lord (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the most consistently entertaining film of the year, full of dazzling dialogue, imaginative story turns and moments of high tension. Sulley, the …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 28 Arbitrage In writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s smooth, snooze-inducing anti-thriller – about a high-finance magnate whose cushy life is threatened – an exceedingly dapper Richard Gere appears in nice suits and handsome close-ups that serve no purpose other than to remind us how exceedingly dapper Richard Gere looks in nice suits and handsome close-ups. Killer Joe …
Which movies to see in the week ahead While the movie loses steam in the last 45 minutes, strong performances by Naomi Watts and Tom Holland (as her son) keep it worth watching.
DVD review: ‘Letters From an Unknown Woman’ Watching Jourdan play a romantic obsession in this heartbreaking melodrama, you realize there is nobody like him or his compatriots in today’s Hollywood. Jourdan plays a famous concert pianist in early 20th century Vienna who catches a glimpse of a pretty adolescent girl (Joan Fontaine) living in his building. German director Max Ophuls had a poetic …