Genre: ComedyDirector: Jesse PeretzStars: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel***Comic smartie Paul Rudd is theoretically out of his comfort zone in this wry comedy, in which he’s called upon to play a gentle soul, Ned by name, who is utterly without guile and thus always getting himself in trouble.
Genre: DramaDirector: GillesPaquet-BrennerStars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance,Niels Arestrup***In this potent Holocaust drama, Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas) is an American investigative journalist working at a contemporary magazine in Paris. She seeks elusive facts regarding the infamous Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, the 1942 mass arrest of that city’s Jews, many of whom were turned over to …
Genre: DramaDirector: Mike CahillStars: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach***Starring director Mike Cahill’s co-writer Brit Marling, this Sundance prize winner tells a sci-fi story within the realm of intense human emotion, and with minimal special effects. A double of planet Earth, called Earth 2, is discovered to be moving alarmingly towards Earth 1
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Genre: DramaDirector: Lee TamahoriStars: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi***The Devil’s Double tells recent Iraqi history through a doppelganger’s dilemma: does he destroy his family or his soul?Director Lee Tamahori’s dynamic thriller is based on the true story of Latif Yahia, the regular Iraqi forced to play stand-in for Saddam Hussein’s psychopathic elder son, Uday, owing to an …
The Friday after Thanksgiving is not completely dominated by Black Friday sales for everyone in the Bay Area. Instead, some people stick with old family traditions and go out to see the new releases at the movie theaters
The standard 35 mm film we’re all used to seeing in movie theaters will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next few years, and the hit blockbuster film “Avatar” is to blame for the shift, according to a new report.
The company behind the film Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is replacing 100,000 title sheets from the film’s newly released DVD and Blue Ray versions because the copy writer incorrectly described the late Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, as a story of “self-sacrifice.” Put simply, that’s like calling Michael Moore a tea partier. Rand, who