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It cost a reported $195 million, and needed to make a lot of that back on its opening weekend. The high end of speculation about its potential — 3D prices and all — was about $30 million. Now it looks … Continue reading →

Ashley Bell is back. And nobody involved apparently is familiar with the meaning of “Last,” because she’s still in need of exorcising. Imagine running across this in Mardi Gras. Yes, the setting has moved to New Orleans. No, this image … Continue reading →

The “Cars”-ish cartoon “Planes” is due out in August, a bit late in the summer for a cartoon of any sort to have maximum money-making potential. And now Disney (not Pixar, which was responsible for “Cars”) has re-cast the lead … Continue reading →

What might one need if one finds oneself on the lam from The Sweeney, the Flying Squad of coppers in the new film from Olde England? A pack of biscuits, a Cockney rhyming dictionary set of flashcards, thumb cuffs/keychains, and … Continue reading →

A Weinstein Co. release, this 2014 film co-stars Tim Roth as Prince Ranier and purports to cover their romance and lives into the early 60s in the principality of Monaco. Hitchcock, Maria Callas and Onassis also figure in the film, … Continue reading →

It wasn’t guns and guerillas that overthrew the military dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile. It was advertising. The Pablo Larrain film “No” captures Chileans as they work to build voter turnout, through advertising, on an election that would have legitimized … Continue reading →

Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner, Sean Patrick Flannery, Lance Henriksen, Johnathan Schaech — it’s a Boy’s Club at sea in this thriller, “Phantom,” set to open Friday. It’s only coming to a few cities, Orlando included.  My review is … Continue reading →

Yeah, it was digital and green screened to death, but give the cinematography prize to the good looking fantasy. And visual effects? That goes without saying.

There’s an art to knowing when to get out of a bit — rescuing “We Saw Your Boobs” with “The Way You Look Tonight,” showing off the singing chops. Classy. Bringing out Charlize, Radcliffe, Channing and JG Levitt. Nice. And … Continue reading →

A movie about hunger in America that also reveals the source of the obesity epidemic (subsidized, universally available super-cheap corn/soy/wheat “product” junk foods), “A Place at the Table” might cause a stir when it hits theaters next month. I’m talking … Continue reading →