Monthly Archives: January 2013

Driss is handsome, young, black and brash. He’s the sort of bully who stomps into a room and impatiently storms to the front of the line because he doesn’t have the patience to wait his turn, and he has the … Continue reading →

 A middling thriller wrapped around a compelling lecture about the child sex trade in Southeast Asia, “Trade of Innocents” gives us a peek at a sordid underworld, but a full view of the conditions that feed it. “Inspired by real … Continue reading →

Writer-director Ti West goes where many — especially Stephen King — have gone before with “The Innkeepers,” a handsome looking but utterly flat-footed tale of a haunted hotel.

There’s an adorable, cutesy vulgarity at work in “Hysteria,” a semi-serious Victorian era comedy about the liberating power of the first electrical vibrator. And if you blushed on reading that, imagine the shades of crimson and snickering amongst cast and … Continue reading →

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 →