Monthly Archives: December 2012

When you talk with Billy Nighy, says director David Yates, who worked with his fellow Brit on the later Harry Potter movies and the British TV version of “State of Play,” “ask him about his tailor.” The director winks and … Continue reading →

All those years David Chase was getting rich off his mob soap opera, “The Sopranos,” what he REALLY wanted to do was “get the band back together.”

He may have been America’s most beloved president, a Mount Rushmore icon, a great humanitarian with a bit of Mark Twain’s frontier humorist about him. He’d start talking about a famous figure from history, or a former client, or some … Continue reading →

DreamWorks’ cunning casting of the silky Spaniard Antonio Banderas as a swashbuckling Puss in Boots pays off,brilliantly, in “Puss in Boots,” a star vehicle for the nursery rhyme kitty cat from the “Shrek” movies. Thanks to Banderas and his Corinthian … Continue reading →

  Leave it to a German to blitzkrieg the Immortal Bard and the Virgin Queen in one sitting.

iscuss This: Comments Off | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it “Gattaca” director Andrew Niccol’s sense of the zeitgeist is as on the money as ever with “In Time,” a sci-fi parable that plays like “Occupy Wall Street: The Movie.”

Joss Whedon amusingly deconstructs the human race’s need for frights, boogeymen and “Saw” and “Hellraiser” sequels with “The Cabin in the Woods.” It’s a serio-comic blend of “Scream” and “The Adjustment Bureau,” more clever than brilliant, more high concept than … Continue reading →

    With a hyped-to-the-hilt teen-friendly phenomenon like “The Hunger Games,” the filmmaker’s first and foremost worry is to not screw it up. The director of “Seabiscuit” manages to get this nag out of the starting gate and across the … Continue reading →

  In days of old, they might have thought Curtis a prophet of doom, or possessed by the Devil. But since he’s a modern working class Joe, drilling test holes for a contracting firm, these dreams Curtis is having provoke … Continue reading →

Discuss This: Comments(2) | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it A comedy about working class stiffs who stick it to the Wall Street type who stole their savings? Talk about ripped from today’s headlines. Talk about being in sync with … Continue reading →