Monthly Archives: January 2013

After “Contraband,” a break-out hit of last January, the first month of the year seems to belong to Mark Wahlberg. He is to January what Will Smith was to July 4, back in the 90s and early 2000s. Wahlberg has … Continue reading →

These are always worth a chuckle, some years more than others. Will the Golden Raspberry go to “Battleship” or to “Madea’s Witless Protection?” Such a list of infamy — so many bad movies. Some (“Breaking Dawn Part 2”) not quite … Continue reading →

All the pre-Oscar awards hubbub is pointing toward these self-evident truths. “Lincoln” is in. So is “Zero Dark Thirty.” And “Les Miserables.” Probably “Life of Pi.” Possibly “Django Unchained.” “The Silver Linings Playbook”? Also possible. “Argo”? Love that Ben. Probable. … Continue reading →

MIAMI BEACH — In the half dozen years that he’s been a movie star, Channing Tatum could be excused for skipping the exercise of reading his reviews. He’s been in some big hits — “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” … Continue reading →

The British comic book “Judge Dredd” made its debut in the mid-1970s, a helmeted lawman who was judge, jury and executioner in a nearly lawless anarchy of the future. Coming out in the recession-wracked ’70s, when civil unrest were common … Continue reading →

Seeing this title turn up, suddenly, post-“Super Storm Sandy” — on Netflix streaming made me laugh. And wince. There’s all this new polling out that suggests, thanks to that storm, the extended drought in the Red State midwest, “the hottest … Continue reading →

If, as they say, “Best directors direct best pictures,” the Oscar field got a LOT simpler/clearer today. No, the DGA nominations don’t correspond exactly with Oscar nods, but the DGA has spoken. And it’s Affleck and Spielberg, Hooper and Bigelow … Continue reading →

Cirque du Soleil movies are a lot like ballet films – long on beauty and artistry, short on story.

The long Woody Allen Euro-sojourn is over. For now. “Blue Jasmine,” which Sony Classics just grabbed the rights to, is Woody back in New York for the first time since that awful Larry David comedy “(Whatever Works”) he did a … Continue reading →