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.
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 …
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.
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Not surprisingly, perhaps, this renowned musician and conductor sees the cinematic experience as being about the music as much as anything else. Topilow will lead the San Antonio Symphony in “Pops Goes to the Movies,†which will feature a wide-ranging selection of scores from Hollywood, from the fantastic (“The Wizard of Oz,†“The Lord of the Ringsâ€) to the intense (“Star Wars,†“Jawsâ€) and the …
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s leisurely Blu-ray issues of vintage Woody Allen movies continue this month with “Hannah and Her Sisters†and “Sleeper,†about a year after “Annie Hall†and “Manhattan†arrived in stores. Equal parts cerebral and slapstick humor, it’s the tale of a hapless health food store owner who is frozen then revived 100 years later, when the U.S.
Movies on Mobile Phones – Never Miss a Good Flick Again It wasn’t all that long ago when watching a movie on a phone meant watching a low-definition recording of your child being cute or your friend doing something ridiculous.
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 …