Worth Seeing The Chronicle’s Recommendations for Movies to See This Weekend Pink Ribbons, Inc. How can anyone ever say anything negative about promoting breast cancer awareness?
Brace yourselves, ’80s movie geeks: Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander are about to be riding the range once more at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre in Orem.
Movies opening this week, July 6 The Amazing Spider-Man A curious discovery pushes Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) to unravel the mystery of his father’s work. Watch her absorb Daddy’s lessons, endure catastrophes, follow her instincts and encounter mythical creatures.
Monroe County’s annual “Movies in the Parks†series will return for the 2012 summer season.
Which movies to see this weekend, June 29 Vampire Hunter This crazy mashup, based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel, works because the filmmakers decided not to be smirky about the gimmick but to treat it with an illusion of seriousness: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, is also an action hero dedicated to the proposition that the only good vampire is a destroyed vampire. The film, which makes no …
DVD review: ‘The Films of Jay Rosenblatt’ Rosenblatt, who is program director for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, will take snippets from instructional, industrial and education films from the middle of the 20th century and put them together with music and narration to achieve profound emotional effects. To see a Jay Rosenblatt movie is to come into contact with something deep and true …
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) And Everything Is Going Fine Seven years after Spalding Gray took his own life, director Steven Soderbergh has put together what amounts to the monologuist’s last show. Naturally, Gray does…
In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Steve Carell’s best-reviewed films. His latest film, “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”…