Daily Archives: December 30, 2012

  “The Words” is, as its name suggests, a wordy melodrama about a young writer, Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), who finishes his first novel, three years in the making — which is promptly rejected. Maybe, he wonders, he’s not who … Continue reading →

  Disney Animation takes a page out of Pixar’s well-worn playbook for “Wreck-It Ralph,” a screwball farce with a novel setting and more edge than your average Disney ‘toon. Where “Toy Story” showed us the off-duty shenanigans of a kids’ … Continue reading →

“Zero Dark Thirty” begins in the mind’s eye – our memories of 9/11 play out as a black screen is backed by the sounds of news reports, 911 emergency calls and tearful dying messages left on voice mails. The movie … Continue reading →

“We Bought a Zoo” is a holiday movie worth rooting for. Directed by the cinema’s last great romantic, Cameron Crowe, it features cute tykes, young romance and a grownup grieving for a lost love, adorable animals and the comically crotchety … Continue reading →

  How was this going to work? All those Marvel superheroes, many of them with their own action franchises, packed into one epic, save-humanity-adventure. How will the retro patriotism of Captain America mesh with the flippant cynicism of Iron Man? … Continue reading →

  The new anime version of “The Borrrowers,” titled “The Secret World of Arrietty” by screenwriter and “supervisor” Hiyao Miyazaki, has the fascination with household “spirits,” the same lovely color palatte and attention to detail that his films are famous … Continue reading →

  “The Words” is, as its name suggests, a wordy melodrama about a young writer, Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), who finishes his first novel, three years in the making — which is promptly rejected. Maybe, he wonders, he’s not who … Continue reading →

“Who is John Galt?” has become the question on all of America’s lips in “Atlas Shrugged: Part II, The Strike.” But a better question might be “Where is John Galt?” Or “When is John Galt going to show up?” Because … Continue reading →

“The  Apparition” wafts out of the ether like the ghosts of bad movies past, the very picture of the cinema’s Dog Days of August. It’s a “Paranormal Activity” knockoff, without the found footage conceit. And it’s science vs. ghosts, in … Continue reading →

  Anne and Georges are elderly Parisians taking life’s victory lap. Their child is grown and married. Pianists and piano teachers, they can attend concerts and listen to CDs of their famous former students. Their routines are as set and … Continue reading →