DVD: Mademoiselle Chambon (PG)
Any love story about pained longing at a train station will inevitably draw comparisons to classic David Lean/Noel Coward romance, Brief Encounter.
December 9, 2011
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Any love story about pained longing at a train station will inevitably draw comparisons to classic David Lean/Noel Coward romance, Brief Encounter.
Back in the mid noughties, you couldn’t move for marching and dancing penguins, so there’s something vaguely out-of-date about this Jim Carrey kids book adaptation.
New movies by Stephen Frears and Spike Lee are among a star-studded line-up of world premieres scheduled for the Sundance Film Festival next month, organizers announced.
Above: Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford star in the sci-fi/ western flick, “Cowboys & Aliens.”
In his new essay collection, The Ecstasy of Influence, the author shows off his impressive skills as a cultural critic.
Not quite as fun or droll as Kenneth Branagh’s Thor but a lot better than the woeful Green Lantern, Captain America is a middling Marvel adaptation, which starts nicely but flags (the lengthy action scenes mainly) half-way through.
Roger Ebert said that a resuscitated version of his long-running television series “At the Movies” would once again be halted while he seeks new sponsors for the show.
If the second series of cult sci-fi show Fringe was a year for shedding comparisons to The X Files and Lost, then it could be argued that the third series is the point at which the show began to do things that had never been done before.
Adele laughs often and heartily in her sublime new concert DVD, and each time reminds you why the 23-year-old British singer has been so irresistible this year: What you see is exactly what you get. â€Live at the Royal Albert Hall,” out next Tuesday, was filmed in September in Adele’s native London, and the hometown honor is not lost on her.
In “Super 8,” J.J. Abrams’ love letter to the Steven Spielberg films that inspired him as a kid, a chubby would-be director named Charles (Riley Griffiths) keeps running around his small Ohio hometown, framing its cul-de-sacs and tract homes with his hands and calling for “more production value.”