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A big cast, texting and talking their way to an understanding of our cell phone addiction and the barriers to communication facing us all? That’s how “Disconnect” looks, based on the trailer, a “Crash” with cell phones. It opens next … Continue reading →

Crowd sourcing pushed for this, a shortened version of the trailer linked here that will run before showings of “Star Trek Into Darkness.” Private funds were raised — crowd-funding, actually. A suggestion? Get Nimoy to narrate. Or Takei. Somebody American … Continue reading →

A large, extended family gathering in a remote home interrupted by a lone, murderous attacker. Crossbow, ax, an alarming mask, and motived. “You’re Next” has what I like in a horror picture — terror based in reality, a life-or-death dilemma … Continue reading →

He’s one of the hottest standup tickets out there, and his first theatrical concert film, “Laugh at My Pain,” was a surprise hit. How Kevin Hart’s back with “Let Me Explain.” He’s got half a dozen films in the hopper, … Continue reading →

Mark Wahlberg does well by buddy pictures, and while “Pain & Gain” seems to qualify as this year’s model, with both Anthony Mackie and Dwayne Johnson as “buddies,” there’s also “Two Guns,” which pairs Wahlberg up with Denzel Washington in … Continue reading →

The Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is at his hairiest and “most vulnerable” in this film, which plainly was based on a Japanese WWII and after detour that the comic book character took, which fans had predicted would anchor this film. It … Continue reading →

I missed this the night it happened, but this video from Franco’s appearance on the Letterman show gets at a couple of truisms. Franco, as I re-discovered on interviewing him re: “Spring Breakers,” is no dumb actor, no matter how … Continue reading →

Just enough there to remind us how good he was in “Pitch Black,” and to make us forget “Chronicles of Riddick.” Sept. 6 is when this one hits.