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Jason Statham’s the guy who wants to mind his own business, do the low profile small town thing. And James Franco is the fellow who isn’t having it. Violence ensues. “Homefront” opens Nov. 27.

Simon Pegg’s portly pal stars in this comedy about a lumpy Brit who falls for the new American “boss” (Rashida Jones). He has no prayer, right? I mean, Chris O’Dowd’s also in the office, all cool and charming and Irish. … Continue reading →

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/blockbuster/n43354/ Kinda funny, kinda sad. And yeah, “Spirited Away” is a “cartoon.” Sorry the link doesn’t set up as a view screen, but somedays, WordPress flat out sucks.

As in “Hunger Games” meets “The Host.” Shailene Woodley, Kate Winslet, a future where conformity is valued above all. And the perky teen who isn’t having that. Yeah, it’s from Summit and yeah it looks way too much like “Hunger … Continue reading →

Sooo, a digitally enhanced fairytale that’s a riff on “Sleeping Beauty” kind of from the villain’s point of view? Angelina Jolie has the title role. Is she “big” enough to embody that much evil? Is there a hint of self-aware … Continue reading →

It’s reunion time for those scamps from “The Best Man,” the sleeper hit 1999 wedding comedy starring the best and brightest of young African American Hollywood. Nia Long and Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Regina Hall, Morris Chestnut and Terrence Howard, … Continue reading →

A couple of Oscar winners — Jennifer Hudson and Forest Whitaker — class up this holiday musical based on a Langston Hughes libretto that sets the Nativity story in Harlem. Angela Bassett and Tyrese Gibson are also in it. Kasi … Continue reading →

“Philomena,” like at least one Weinstein Co. title a year, it seems, got nailed with an R-rating thanks to its sexually frank (funny) talk from the old Irish nurse played by Dame Judi Dench, in the title role. Well I … Continue reading →

The studios are rolling out the last of their big gun Oscar contenders in the next month or so, and they’re showing them to critics just as fast as they can arrange the screenings — “Nebraska,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” and … Continue reading →

Oscar talk for Matthew McConaughey gave way, a little, to Oscar talk for Jared Leto as this film neared release. In any event, a true story drama about people conspiring to get their hands on experimental/unapproved in America AIDS drugs … Continue reading →