Monthly Archives: December 2012

Eye-contact is how it begins — a shared glance on the subway, maybe followed by a smile but always cranked up from a glance to a penetrating stare. Brandon, played with a chilling allure by Michael Fassbender, is an old … Continue reading →

There is so much “business” that the fourth big comic book movie adaptation of the summer has to take care of that frankly, it’s astounding that director Joe “Jumanji” Johnston is able to take care of it all, and with … Continue reading →

Daniel Radcliffe acquits himself reasonably well in his first adult big screen role, a man haunted by “The Woman in Black.” He plays a young lawyer, a single father and widower with enough conviction to make this spooky period piece … Continue reading →

Men on opposing sides of war find their shared humanity in their love of animals in “War Horse,” Steven Spielberg’s sentimental epic about a country thoroughbred who travels from the fields of Devonshire to the trenches of the Somme in … Continue reading →

  It was an age of motorcycle ninjas and drug gang uzis, of cocaine deals in parking garages where everybody was backlit, photographed from below, ready to break into “Beat It” or “I’m Bad,” should Michael Jackson turn up on … Continue reading →

  “The Imposter” is a mesmerizing con-artist comedy and a chilling true crime thriller, a French documentary built around actor recreations and revealing and yet mystifying real-life interviews with those involved And what they were involved with is as hot-button … Continue reading →

Aamir  Khan seems to be the one superstar of Indian film to consistently get his movies into the American export market. Ever since the cricket match during the Raj epic “Lagaan” (2001), his movies have shown up here reaching the … Continue reading →

  “Liberal Arts” is to Josh Radnor what “The Five-Year Engagement” was to Jason Segel — a big screen extension of his small-screen “How I Met Your Mother” persona. Radnor’s second outing as a writer/director/star has him playing an overly … Continue reading →

They’re young, they’re tourists and they want to go where nobody gets to go, to have an experience to brag about when they get home. Visit Russia and Ukraine? You have GOT to sneak into long-off-limits radioactive dead zone around … Continue reading →

The first thing about “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is that it’s superfluous. The original Swedish films may be subtitled, with actors few outside of Sweden had heard of before they came out. But the shock of discovering the … Continue reading →