December 21, 2012
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Movies opening this week, Dec. 21 Enter a cinematic sphere where a young couple search for each other through mystical worlds. Citadel Tommy and his pregnant wife’s joy shrivels into despair when she’s savagely attacked by a gang of hooded kids.
Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 14 Killing Them Softly Brad Pitt stars as a hit man who has come to town to straighten out a crisis of confidence within a gambling community, in a clever, dramatic and yet often very funny crime drama with parallels to the 2008 financial crisis.
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 7 Never Sorry Alison Klayman’s portrait of China’s most famous and fractious contemporary artist sketches the spectrum of his art and political activism, and the troubles and global sympathy they have brought him
New movies opening Dec. 9 Any Day Now The Central Park Five The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Hyde Park on Hudson The Matchmaker
Movies opening Friday, Dec. 7 Generation P This screen adaptation of a Russian novel traces the advent of advertising as the Soviet era crumbles in the 1990s
DVD review: ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ Two sophisticated Londoners – a doctor played by Peter Finch and an employment counselor played by Glenda Jackson – enjoy the sexual pleasures of a young artist (Murray Head).
DVD review: ‘Fanny, Annie & Danny’ Fanny’s sister Annie (Carlye Pollack), about to marry a sympathetic druggie (Nick Frangione), gets more bad-mouthing from Mom, while brother Danny (Jonathan Leveck) shows up solely to bilk his siblings out of their dough – and stick it to Mom. Poor Dad (George Killingsworth), a Vietnam War veteran and a lost soul in the grasp of his shrieking, show-no-mercy …