Movies to see this weekend, Dec. 21 Sulley, the main monster, is the warm heart of Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.,” which although a bit indulgent of its star power at times, is funny and sweet enough to delight kids and inventive enough to satisfy adults
 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a massive hit – as everyone expected – and while it constitutes a bit of a letdown from The Lord of the Rings , it remains an honorable piece of entertainment. And, like its Oscar-winning predecessors, it leaves us on a cliffhanger… with a year to wait before the next part of the story…
Movies opening Friday, Dec. 14 Any Day Now Entertainer Rudy (Alan Cumming) sees his drugged-out hooker neighbor abandon her Down syndrome son, Marco, so he rescues the teen. The Central Park Five This documentary depicts the tensions bubbling over in 1980s New York when a white female jogger becomes the victim of a horrid attack and rape in Central Park.
Spuul.com, the popular streaming service for Indian movies and TV Shows online, has launched an app to stream full-length movies in Facebook. Users worldwide can now watch the best of Indian movies and shows, with Spuul’s Facebook app, while continuing to chat with friends, check their newsfeeds and read notifications.
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.
Be honest for this next question: How many of you Maniacs have made it all the way through Brazil …
New on DVD and Blu-ray, Dec. 11 Kino Classics Remastered” (1972), “Beloved” (2011), “The Bourne Legacy” (2012), “Collision Earth” (2011), “Darken” (2012), “Doomsday Book” (2012), “Dreams of a Life” (2011), “Following” (1999), “Gangsters, Guns and Zombies” (2012), “Hemo” (2010), “Kill ‘Em All” (2012), “Mansome” (2012), “Miami Connection” (1987), “Mr. Bricks” (2011), “Night Claws” (2012), “Osombie …
DVD review: 3 Jean Harlow films Jean Harlow, one of the most adorable women ever to walk the Earth, died at the incalculably unjust age of 26 in 1937, after leaving an impression of her warmth, fun and loveliness that will last long past the day that any of us will be in a position to feel sorry for her. Among the most important of these is “Red Dust,” which, by some incredible oversight, was …
New movies opening Dec. 9 Any Day Now The Central Park Five The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Hyde Park on Hudson The Matchmaker