07/18/2008

Movie Review: ‘Encounters at the End of the World’ is a fascinating South Pole adventure
If you’ve ever wanted to visit the South Pole, and who hasn’t (just kidding!), you can take an armchair tour without subjecting yourself to the 20-below temperatures in German director Werner Herzog’s fascinating Encounters at the End of the World.

Movie Review: ‘Space Chimps’ monkey business is right in kids’ orbit
If you’re old enough to read this review, you aren’t the target audience for Space Chimps, a movie about chimpanzees sent in search of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Chimps, from the British animation studio that gave us Valiant, is one more of those cartoons that parents at least won’t mind sitting through while little Miss or Mister 8-and-under gets his or her chuckles at the cute talking primates.

Movie Review: Daffy musical ‘Mamma Mia!’ seems forced on the big screen
Mama mia! The international stage sensation Mamma Mia! trips over its platform shoes on the way to the movie screen.

Movie review: ‘Up the Yangtze’ documents the currents of change in China
Imagine the Grand Canyon turned into a lake. That image is summoned by Yung Chang, the Chinese-Canadian director and occasional narrator of Up the Yangtze, an astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle.

Movie Review: Memories bitter, then sweet in ‘When Did You Last See Your Father?’
Blake Morrison’s autobiographical book about the distance between fathers and sons has been turned into a sensitive, sentimental and melancholy film that will touch any male who has had difficulty bridging that particular generation gap.

07/17/2008

Movie review by Michael Janusonis: Stars shine in ‘The Dark Knight’
Following the rousing international success of director Christopher Nolan’s new, darker take on the Batman legend three years ago in Batman Begins, he’s back with much of the holdover cast from the first film for the slightly less somber The Dark Knight.

07/11/2008

Nonstop action is pure fun in updated Journey
Director Eric Brevig’s updated version of the Jules Verne classic Journey to the Center of the Earth is an old-fashioned, rip-roaring, seat-of-the-pants action film that harkens back to the days of the Saturday matinee movies of the 1950s.

Eddie Murphy muddles through lowbrow Meet Dave
Meet Dave. Or don’t. Eddie Murphy doesn’t particularly seem to care one way or the other.

Red is back and even better in ‘Hellboy II’
Thanks to the wild screen success of Hellboy four years ago, Red is back to save mankind anew in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a fantasy-adventure that’s filled with galloping action, bizarre creatures and — surprise! — romance.

Movie review: The curiously gentle ‘Edge of Heaven’ bristles with violence
There are six principal characters in The Edge of Heaven: two mothers, two daughters, a father and a son, all arranged in more or less symmetrical pairs. In the course of this extraordinary film by the German writer-director Fatih Akin (which won the best screenplay award in Cannes last year) children are lost, lost parents are never found, and generational and geographical distances grow wider.

07/04/2008

Movie review: Ambition and passion create a sudsy storm in ‘Before the Rains’
The clash of cultures in British-ruled India is the background for the steamy melodrama that unfolds in Before the Rains, opening today at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport.

Movie Review: Fantastic imagery is half the point of The Fall
The Fall, a wacky fairy tale for grown-ups, is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic.

Movie review: The Children of Huang Shi quickly turns sappy
The first 20 minutes of The Children of Huang Shi are breathtakingly, explosively thrilling.

07/02/2008

Movie Review: Unfunny ‘Hancock’ wears out its welcome
Will Smith’s Hancock is a summer popcorn movie that’s a ton of poppycock revolving around a boozy, unlikely superhero who tries to redeem himself with the advice of a kindly public relations man

Movie review: Abigail Breslin outshines script in “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”
Although it’s set in 1934 at the height of the Great Depression, there’s something remarkably up-to-date about Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. It’s based on one of the dolls and books in a popular series that’s geared to girls 3 to 12, mixing historical fact and inspirational fiction.

06/27/2008

Movie review: ‘Wanted’ is a bloody good fantasy thriller
Near the start of the high-octane fantasy-thriller Wanted, a bullet rips through the back of a man’s head and comes out his forehead, followed by bloody splatters. It’s here that you know Russian-born director Timur Bekmambetov will take no prisoners in Wanted, a no-holds-barred stew of violence and mayhem.

Movie review: Undeniable charm brings good things to life in ‘WALL•E’
A dead planet and a love-starved robot are the unusual ingredients that make WALL•E spin. And spin it does, with romance, sentiment, adventure and some very funny moments.

06/20/2008

Movie review: Lame ‘Get Smart’ remake is too clever by half
Steve Carell tries to fill the shoe-phone shoes of Don Adams in Get Smart, a lame, not-so-funny update of the 1960s TV series.

Movie review: Not much to love about Myers’ ‘Guru’
The biggest audience Mike Myers is likely to stir for his unfunny The Love Guru is the Hindus who have been peppering movie critics for months with e-mails demanding that they get an advance preview of the film. They feared it would blaspheme their faith.

Movie review: Epic imagery is a strong backdrop for the tale of Khan
When a film called Mongol takes as its storyline the formative years of Genghis Khan, a conqueror who eventually controlled a fifth of the Earth, you know what you’ll be getting. But with this film you’ll be getting that and more.

06/13/2008

Less than incredible
The Incredible Hulk, the story of a mild-mannered scientist whose unwitting exposure to gamma radiation turns him green and huge when he gets angry? The comic book turned hit TV show turned movie? Didn’t we see that a few years ago?

World premiere at Columbus
One-time porn star Marilyn Chambers caused a stir when she arrived back in her native state last August to shoot the film Solitaire, in which she plays what appears to be the only cop on the beat in Pawtucket in this low-budget local production.

Priceless lacks the innocence of Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Priceless is a romantic comedy from France that’s loosely based on the film made of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Not much Happening under all the good creepiness
In The Happening, Mother Nature decides that humanity is a dangerous virus — and gets to work eliminating the threat.

06/06/2008

Jolly panda-monium
Fast, outlandish and wonderfully zany, Kung Fu Panda is a wacky trip to a Chinese Wonderland where a clumsy, chubby panda with martial arts dreams gets to live out his fantasy and become the masterful Dragon Warrior.

Many layers of intrigue in French whodunit
A famous author is haunted by a ghost in director Claude Lelouch’s twisty melodrama Roman de Gare.

Unfortunately, Zohan is just a mess
Politics has always been a very iffy proposition for American comedies. But Adam Sandler takes a crack at it in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan in which the neverending Arab-Israeli conflict serves as the film’s very touchy background.

06/05/2008

La Corona (The Crown) is a prison documentary unlike any other
The women-behind-bars movie has been a staple of B-moviemakers for half a century. But La Corona (The Crown) is a documentary that gives a whole new look to the genre. The 40-minute film from Colombia will have its first screening at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Jane Pickens Theater, on a double bill with the hour-long documentary The Big Question as part of the 11th Newport International Film Festival.

Ambitious family drama moves too slowly for too long
Self-sacrifice is at the center of the family drama August Evening, which will have its first showing at the 11th Newport International Film Festival at 9:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Opera House.

A thrilling and intimate portrait of Navy pilots
If you’ve ever dreamed of flying for the Navy, filmmaker Peyton Wilson’s film gives an up-close and very personal look at how to go about it. Her documentary Speed and Angels, which has its first showing the 11th Newport International Film Festival at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Jane Pickens Theater, is probably the best recruiting tool the Navy has had in years.

06/04/2008

Documentary depicts the power of love
The documentary Life. Support. Music., which will have its first showing at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the 11th Newport International Film Festival, encompasses all the things of its title in its tale of the near death and long, painful rehabilitation of Jason Crigler, a well-respected New York City guitarist. Crigler was felled one night on stage by a brain hemorrhage at the age of 34.

Funny, sad tale is a must-see
If you can get to just one film at this year’s Newport International Film Festival, make it Wellness, which will have its first Newport International Film Festival screening at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Opera House.

Murderer finds a new life is hard to come by
A 24-year-old man who has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons for being the accomplice in the murder of a girl tries to create a new identity for himself in the provocative social drama Boy A, which will have its first showing at 1:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Opera House as part of the 11th Newport International Film Festival.

06/03/2008

How one man conquered the World Trade towers
On Aug. 7, 1974 a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit went where no man had gone before … and no one will be able to ever again … when he stepped out on a wire that had been strung 200 feet between the tops of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan..

05/29/2008

Sex and The City, the movie: Gal pals back in fine form
Four years after Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte sipped their last cosmo and strapped on their last Manolo Blahnik sandal on HBO’s Sex and the City, they’re back in a big-screen follow-up to the runaway hit series to tie up some loose ends, struggle anew with relationships, uncover new crises and rediscover the power of friendship.

05/30/2008

The Strangers delivers brutal terror and suspense
For his debut feature film, writer-director Bryan Bertino set out to do nothing more than scare the pants off an audience.

05/23/2008

Sundance sensation is just pint-sized
Amateurish and small, Son of Rambow was the inexplicable hit of the Sundance Film Festival.

Movie review: Helen Hunt’s directorial debut frames sudsy “Then She Found Me”
Helen Hunt has won a best actress Academy Award for As Good As It Gets and four best actress Emmy Awards for Mad About You, as well as being a lauded stage actress. Now she makes her feature film directing debut in the romantic tragic-comedy Then She Found Me, not only working behind the camera with the likes of showbiz powerhouse Bette Midler, but on screen herself as the film’s central character. Talk about chutzpah!

05/21/2008

Movie review: A red-hot adventure for aging archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
After 19 years away from the big screen it’s full-speed ahead for Harrison Ford and his alter ego, Indiana Jones, in Steven Spielberg’s rip-roaring adventure yarn Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Surfing and social woes down under
A movie with the title Bra Boys conjures up all sorts of images, most of them not pretty.

05/16/2008

Narnia: Prince Caspian a royal disappointment
My moviegoing companion was glad she’d taken my advice and watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe before we went to see the second film made from C.S. Lewis’s series of Narnia books — The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

05/09/2008

Speed Racer doesn’t break any records
What should have been a fast 90-minute spin around the track, Speed Racer runs for two hours and 15 minutes … but seems like seven hours.

A screwy battle of the sexes
Ashton Kutcher’s Jack Fuller is a life-of-the-party guy who gets fired from his job by his boss, who also happens to be his father.

RISD’s best at sparkling film fest
Any longtime follower of the annual film-animation-video show at the Rhode Island School of Design will have noticed a gradual increase in the quality and depth of the works presented by the graduating seniors over the years. This year’s show, running May 14 to 17, is the best yet.

Mamet learns the jiu-jitsu of cinema
David Mamet finally makes a real movie with Redbelt.

05/02/2008

Movie Review: ‘Iron Man’ has soft touch with a superhero who comes to vibrant life at the hands of Robert Downey Jr.
The first of the summer blockbuster movies has arrived and in Iron Man the movies have found a thrilling new superhero.

A pleasant Made of Honor
A playboy waits 10 years before deciding to ask his best friend to marry him, only to discover she has just become engaged to someone else in the bubbly, if overly familiar Made of Honor.

They’re Young@Heart — and so is their music
They do punk.

Movie Review: Damaged souls drift through “My Blueberry Nights”
The road to romantic recovery is meandering, far-flung and thousands of miles long in My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar Wai’s first English-language film.

04/25/2008

Movie Review: Sadly, very little Deception at all
A generic thriller with a generic title, Deception is so predictable you could guess what happens next even if the trailer hadn’t already given away just about every important plot development.

Movie Review: Richard Jenkins, formerly of Trinity Rep, shines in regular-guy role in ‘The Visitor’
You may not know you know Richard Jenkins, but you know him. And most likely, you’re a fan.

Movie Review: With Fey and Poehler, ‘Baby Mama’ is full of fun
Pregnant with complex twists that give birth to surprising complications, the often hilarious Baby Mama breaches its high-concept idea of a 37-year-old woman who hires a surrogate mother to carry her baby to term.

Movie Review: ‘Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay’ is raunchy and occasionally hilarious
A lot has changed since Harold and Kumar last partied their way onto the big screen way back in ’04, White Castle burgers in hand and sex on their minds.

04/18/2008

Pleasantly enjoyable martial arts
There might have been some people who, while watching one of The Lord of the Rings movies, had a particular light bulb pop up over their heads. “Hey, you know what would really make this great?,” they thought. “Some kung-fu by a couple of aging Asian action stars!”

Movie review: Immerse yourself with Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean 3D, the latest IMAX underwater adventure
You’ll find the occasional whale fin in your face or a piece of algae tossed by a dolphin just out of arm’s reach in Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean 3D, the latest save-the-planet nature film at the Feinstein IMAX.

Movie Review: No barriers to suspense and love in heartwarming La Misma Luna
La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) is an emotional and entertaining road picture about a little boy who crosses the Mexican border into the U.S. on a quest to find his mom. She works “without papers” and off the books in Los Angeles. It’s a warm drama that humanizes America’s current illegal immigration debate even as it sentimentally stacks the deck in favor of the undocumented.

One man’s attempt to find Osama has many surprises
With his disarming “redneck” grin and his even-tempered even-handedness, we could do a lot worse than have somebody like Morgan Spurlock lead the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Movie Review: No thrills during a wasted 88 Minutes
88 Minutes lasts 108 minutes. It can’t even get that much right.

Movie Review: Unfunny Stein makes monkey business of ‘academic freedom’ in Expelled
Droning funnyman Ben Stein monkeys around with evolution in the new documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a cynical attempt to sucker Christian conservatives into thinking they’re losing the “intelligent design” debate because of academic “prejudice.”

Movie review: She loves him, she loves him not in the ribald comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Billed as “the world’s first romantic disaster comedy,” Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortably icky movie about a schlub who thinks his life is ruined when he’s dumped by his TV star girlfriend.

04/12/2008

This is one Prom Night you won’t be sorry to miss
There ought to be a rule, stashed in the Screen Actor’s Guild bylaws, that every actor cast as a villain in a slasher film has to watch Psycho and write a paper on Anthony Perkins.

A ‘serious’ writer’s despair in a frivolous world
Starting Out in the Evening is more proof that the lonely life of the writer is never the most promising of movie premises. There isn’t much dramatic about what every such movie, especially this one, boils down to — a writer sitting down at a typewriter, tapping the keys.

04/11/2008

Street Kings: Somebody call for backup
Keanu Reeves tries his best to channel Denzel and Clint in Street Kings, a wild and woolly if also slack and silly bad-cops-kill-other-bad-cops thriller. It’s Training Day with training wheels, as Reeves sheds his “dude”-ness for a little ultra-violence, playing a racist cop-executioner, a man who always gets his man. And then shoots his man.

Movie Review: Mismatched hearts beat in the right place
Meet Jack, an advertising copy writer who’s living the high life in New York — fancy clothes, car, condo, natty career — all the consumer perks that go along with being a hot-shot advertising copy writer. He seems shallow.

Nothing smart about this charmless movie
Despite quality ingredients, soufflés still fall flat.

Life’s a Drag — and these entertaining guys are loving it
While watching a preview of the upcoming IMAX film Dolphins and Whales: Tribes of the Ocean 3D, which unravels some of the mysteries and mystique about these familiar yet relatively unknown creatures, it occurred to me that Lara Sebastian’s intriguing documentary Life’s a Drag accomplishes pretty much the same thing in the way it unravels the mysteries and mystique of drag queens.

Amateur cast brings Beirut to life in beauty-shop classic
There have been a couple thousand American movies in which the gals let it all hang out down at the beauty shop.

04/05/2008

Movie Review: Intense, effective frights await upon a creepy hilltop in The Ruins
The Ruins is, with one major caveat, about as good an adaptation of Scott Smith’s best-selling novel as Hollywood was ever going to make. Smith’s book — about a group of college kids who stumble onto a hill in the Mexican jungle where a flesh-eating vine dwells — was the kind of relentless beach read that seemed tailor-made for the movies, at least until you realized you were dealing with a story about a talking plant that drinks blood.

04/03/2008

Scorsese shines light on Stones
Shine a Light, the Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones concert film, starts off looking like a documentary on the making of Shine a Light, the Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones concert film. The director and Stones frontman Mick Jagger butt heads over the stage set and the cameras. The band rehearses, yet seems dubious about the whole thing. Scorsese hectors the group for days for a set list; he seemingly gets one literally five seconds before “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”

04/04/2008

Movie Review: A slow game for Clooney
Leatherheads, which revolves around the early days of professional football in 1925, patterns itself after the wacky, classic romantic screwball comedies that were so snappily popular in the 1930s — The Front Page and Bringing Up Baby being its prototypes — or maybe the Rock Hudson-Doris Day comedies of the early ’60s.

Look is barely worth one
Inspired by what the filmmakers say are the 30 million surveillance cameras capturing our movements every day, writer-director Adam Rifkin (Detroit Rock City) finds some intriguing crevices to explore, with a cold, unblinking eye, in his latest, Look. Considering the premise’s potential, though, it’s disappointing that the film doesn’t delve beyond the prurient surface.

Director explores truth in The Counterfeiters
Stefan Ruzowitzky has an appealingly modest take on his sudden ascent to art-house respectability. He’s quick to point out that his previous film, Anatomy, was a horror feature crafted for “a young, popcorn-eating crowd.” Yet the Austrian writer/director of this year’s Oscar-winning foreign film, The Counterfeiters, feels that his experience with lowly genre fare served him well.

Movie Review: A colorful adventure on faraway Nim’s Island
The curiously titled Nim’s Island is a Saturday matinee kind of family film that’s crammed with enough adventures to keep even Indiana Jones busy.

04/02/2008

Indian stone walls lovingly filmed
If all you know about the Narragansett Indian tribe is the seemingly endless smoke shop raid flap and the West Warwick casino brouhaha, tune in to Channel 36 at 8 tonight for a whole other dimension when the local PBS station broadcasts Stories in Stone, about the intricate and elaborate stone fences the Narragansetts have been building across southeastern New England since the mid 1600s.

03/29/2008

Movie Review: With a fine cast, On Broadway beats its budget
On Broadway, whose title refers peripherally to the one in Boston and not the Great White Way, is a smartly made independent film about a family in crisis.

Movie Review: There is no hero in this super stupid spoof
Leslie Nielsen has been playing incontinent on the screen for so long it’s no wonder that, ahem, there’s no gas left in that tank. So it’s also no wonder that the 81-year-old funnyman passes (ahem) that cheese-slicing trademark on to Marion Ross, Richie Cunningham’s TV mom, for Superhero Movie, the latest winded (ahem AHEM) installment in the movie-spoof genre that wore out its welcome as far back as Scary Movie 2.

03/28/2008

Movie review: MIT students beat Vegas at its own game in the fact-based 21
A group of brainy Massachusetts Institute of Technology students heads for the Las Vegas blackjack tables, trying to stay one step ahead of casino security guards as they rack up monumental wins by counting cards in the hang-on-to-your-seat thriller 21.

Movie Review: A compelling examination of humanity in The Counterfeiters
“Know why the Jews are always persecuted?” Salomon Sorowitsch, a Jew known as the King of the Counterfeiters, tells a friend in 1936 Berlin. “Because they refuse to adapt. It’s not that hard.”

Movie review: Demi Moore and Michael Caine plot a gem heist in Flawless
A night janitor and a female manager who finds herself up against the glass ceiling at a huge London diamond exchange make for an unlikely pair of robbers in the breezy little caper comedy Flawless.

Movie Review: Difficult journey of a soul-searching soldier
A model soldier goes AWOL when he discovers that his plans to leave the U.S. Army have been canceled and he is being sent back to Iraq and goes on the run across country with the girlfriend of his best friend in the fast-paced and provocative Stop-Loss.

Movie Review: Hapless Fat Boy makes sweet run for victory
There’s often a touch of the touching in the comedies of Brit Everyman Simon Pegg. Shaun of the Dead had his moments of sentiment, in between dispatching zombies.

03/25/2008

Another feel-good Tyler Perry film
There’s nothing subtle about Tyler Perry and his black-centric movies. The farce is in-your-face, the melodrama has more soap than a Laundromat, and the messages — drugs are bad, school is good, single moms are the heroes of our time — come mounted on billboards.

03/24/2008

Horror film Shutter needs more shudders
The influence of the Japanese school of screen horror (called “J-horror”) on Hollywood has led to a string of subtler, less violent, yet still chilling ghost stories, many of which are remakes of Japanese originals, films such as The Grudge, The Ring and One Missed Call.

03/21/2008

Movie Review: Teens might cheer for underdogs while adults yawn at Drillbit
Young teens may be able to relate to Drillbit Taylor, about three high school freshman nerds who hire a homeless, unemployed former mercenary (or so he says) as a bodyguard to save them from a relentless bully.

Movie review: Skating around a grisly mystery in the latest from RISD grad Gus Van Sant
Youth and death meet again in Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, a gorgeously stark, mesmerizingly elliptical story told in the same lyrical-prosaic style that has characterized his latest films. Based on a young-adult novel by Blake Nelson, it’s a study in angst and guilt made visible by the dreamy camera work of Christopher Doyle and otherwise palpable by Van Sant’s charged, simple direction.

Movie Review: Academy-Award winning “Taxi to the Dark Side” explores military prison abuse
Most of us have seen the shocking pictures of the abuses inflicted by U.S. military MPs and interrogators on terrorist suspects being held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

03/18/2008

Sci-fi thriller has few chills and lots of steals
One of the unspoken rules for surviving the movie game is “Always sign up for your next film before the one you just finished comes out.” Call it Elizabeth Berkley’s Law. She didn’t have her future planned beyond Showgirls, then it came out and, well, she was pretty much history.

03/14/2008

Movie Review: Never Back Down sticks to a tried-and-true formula
Never Back Down is an ultra-sleek, mixed-martial-arts teen drama, an updated Karate Kid, a Fight Club for the viral-video generation. Even though it’s as predictable as a pro-wrestling match, what it lacks in originality it makes up for in the nervous energy of youth and testosterone.

Clash-of-cultures comedy turns to sentimental whimsy
An Egyptian police band arrives in Israel and mistakenly travels to the wrong town in The Band’s Visit, a setup for a movie that promises to be much funnier and more farcical than ever develops in writer-director Eran Kolirin’s script.

Movie Review: Horton Hears a Who presents all the sweet magic of Dr. Seuss’ whimsical world
Beloved by generations of children and their parents, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, about an elephant who never gives up in his commitment to save a teeny-tiny world that exists inside a speck of dust, makes the leap to the movies with all its whimsy, fun and hold-your-breath adventure intact.

Movie Review: Funny Games, disturbing violence
George and Anna and their little son, Georgie, live an existence of tasteful affluence rarely glimpsed outside of Ralph Lauren ads. They play “Name that Aria” with opera CDs as they tow their classic sailboat on the long drive to their gracious lakeside cabin. After they settle in, a bashful young man in preppie tennis whites comes to their door, introduces himself as Paul, a guest of their neighbors, and asks to scrounge a few eggs.

03/07/2008

It’s safe to bring the little ones along for this College Road Trip
The modest charms of Disney’s G-rated College Road Trip are best illustrated by what the filmmakers leave out more than what they choose to put in.

Acclaimed 4 Months dramatically riveting, but often rambling
The dour Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which won the Palme d’Or at last spring’s Cannes Film Festival, might be described as the flip side of Juno.

You won’t feel robbed by The Bank Job
The Bank Job is a solidly built and entertaining Brit B-movie about a heist that goes wrong. And right.

‘10,000 B.C.’ is a mammoth adventure
At heart, 10,000 B.C. is a prehistoric love story, about a young man trying to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend.

Miss Pettigrew, curiously, lacks life
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a fast-paced, daffy farce filled with outrageous situations and high hilarity.

02/29/2008

Playwright Eve Ensler will appear Sunday at an event to raise awareness of violence against women
The only movie that will be part of Until the Violence Stops: Providence — a nine-day series of theater programs, discussion groups and community events focusing on eliminating violence against women and girls — revolves around ...

Sex and greed, but little fire in The Other Boleyn Girl
Anyone who has a nodding acquaintance with British history knows Anne Boleyn.

Movie review: Will Ferrell plays a court jester in the basketball comedy Semi-Pro
Will Ferrell again tackles his patented, crowd-pleasing, larger-than-life child-man in Semi-Pro, this time playing the coach and star forward of a basketball team that’s on the skids.

Penelope charming film about the beauty within
Penelope is a generally charming romantic fantasy.

02/27/2008