MOVIES: Scorsese, on unfamiliar ground, succeeds with charming ‘Hugo’
It’s too long, but it’s also a loving homage to movie-making and a deft use of 3-D
November 22, 2011
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It’s too long, but it’s also a loving homage to movie-making and a deft use of 3-D
The magnificent Art Deco tower of the El Rey Theatre has long been an important landmark in Alex Mullaney’s life. “My grandparents lived in Ingleside Terrace,” Mullaney says, recalling his childhood in the early 1990s
The DVD of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, in which the evil dragon is vanquished by Harry Potter, who is helped by Ron and Hermione, released in Orlando on Saturday.
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 Amateurish in direction and confused in its writing (unless you’ve read the Ayn Rand novel you’ll be lost), this low-budget feature, though at times a preachy right-wing…
In Time In a future world in which no one ages and immortality can be bought, the poor die and the rich live forever. Justin Timberlake plays a man who decides to challenge the system, in the most effective metaphor for…
“Immortals,” which opens today, is hardly the first movie to raid the myths for screenplay material. And it’s hardly the first to squeeze a large man into tiny clothing as he flexes his will in a quest for undying glory….
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This 1939 Technicolor film, from Zoltan Korda, is the best of the British colonial action-adventure films – the most rousing, the most nuanced and the most emotionally satisfying. It’s also the…
Brainstorm: This late film noir, from 1965, is one brilliant, twisted movie.
Feature: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Ballet in Two Acts” (2011), “Anti-Nazi Classics: Volume Two” (various dates), “Attack the Block” (2011), “BBC Holiday Comedy” (various dates), “BBC Holiday Drama” (various…
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This, quite simply, is the Blu-ray release of the year.