DVD review: ‘Elena’ Sedately and methodically, director Andrei Zvyagintsev leads the viewer to a point of view that is the complete opposite of his own, in telling the story of a former nurse, now married to a rich man. The bulk of his estate will go to his daughter, a woman whom Elena (the remarkable Nadezhda Markina) views as a cold, unfeeling drug addict. From that setup, the director …
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DVD review: ‘Jolene’ A decade later he cast a Juilliard graduate named Jessica Chastain in her first movie role as the title character in “Jolene.” A magnet to men, she winds up married to a bigamist and to an abusive religious zealot and in relationships with a Las Vegas mobster (a compelling Chazz Palminteri) and with a female warden (Frances Fisher) at a mental hospital where Jolene is …
The producers of “The Hobbit” movies on Tuesday rejected allegations that animals died on set during the making of director Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated Tolkien trilogy in New Zealand.
Believe me, there is a Facebook page called “Movies that you don’t understand the first time you see them†and 135 people have liked the page. Although there is hardly any activity on the page, its pure existence states that we sometimes really don’t know what a movie is about all the time.
“Lawrence of Arabia†is one movie that definitely benefits from the Blu – ray upgrade that went into stores this…
Watch This Week’s Movies | Nov. 16, 2012 video online. News and opinion video from The NYTimes including breaking news, investigative reporting, national and international coverage
What movies to see this week, Nov. 16 Lincoln An amazing film from Steven Spielberg featuring one of the year’s best performances, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, working every possible angle to pass the 13th Amendment in the waning days of the Civil War. Skyfall A good-enough action movie, but a disappointing James Bond entry, with a sober, somber, downbeat Bond trying to protect M …
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