Monthly Archives: January 2013

The Grimm fairytale returns to its grey and gory origins in “Snow White and the Huntsman,” the second “Snow White” remake of 2012. Unlike the gorgeous and dizzy “Mirror Mirror,” “Huntsman” is more sword and sorcery, a film of battles … 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 →

“I don’t analyze myself, or what people think about me,” Christian Bale says, pretty much any time any conversation with him even hints at turning “personal.” He doesn’t know how much his profile changed after he landed the lead in … Continue reading →

  First of all, “It’s KILL-ian,” says Kelly Macdonald of her friend, former London neighbor and onetime co-star (2003’s “Intermission.”) “You’d never want to pronounce” Cillian Murphy’s “name wrong.” And why? What would he do? “It’s those eyes,” she giggles. … Continue reading →

The frenetic, comic and booze-assisted visit of King George and Queen (“Mum”) Elizabeth to the private home of President Franklin Roosevelt on the eve of World War II might make for a jaunty comedy of manners in the Downton Abbey … Continue reading →

A horror movie might seem an oddly unambitious choice for rising starlet Jennifer Lawrence at this stage of her career. She’s been in one franchise (“X-Men: First Class”), launched another (“The Hunger Games”) and is earning serious Oscar buzz for … Continue reading →

  Welcome to the “Hotel Transylvania” where “you can check out any time you like, but you will never laugh.” With apologies to The Eagles, “almost never.”

Fifty years past his heyday, and thirty years after his death, the world still knows Alfred Hitchcock by reputation, even if you can’t get the kids to check out his classic movies. “Hitchcock,” a dark and dazzling bio-thriller about the … Continue reading →

  All the technical prowess of “aliens invade” thrillers, from “Independence Day” through “Battle: Lost Angeles,” and the best comic actors money can buy serve “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” well. The funniest, best-executed film in the Earth-protecting robots-that-look-like-cars-and-trucks series, … Continue reading →

We meet Oliver as he is cleaning up his father’s bungalow and dumping Dad’s prescription pill supply down the toilet.  His father has died, and we can see in Ewan McGregor’s face that this is but the latest blow to … Continue reading →