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07/05/2009

Do The Right Thing resonates 20 years later
Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through America’s window.

07/03/2009

Movie Review: ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs’ continues to be fun
By the time mammoths and saber-toothed tigers ruled the Earth 10,000 years ago, dinosaurs had been extinct for 65 million years or so.

Movie Review: ‘$9.99’ features an eerie parallel universe
Israeli writer Etgar Keret possesses an imagination not easily slotted into conventional literary categories. His very short stories might be described as Kafkaesque parables, magic-realist knock-knock jokes or sad kernels of cracked cosmic wisdom.

Woody Allen’s Whatever Works works
If a lot of Woody Allen’s latest film Whatever Works seems more than a little like the “old Woody Allen” — befuddled by the day-to-day stuff of life; unlucky at love and carping about just about everything he comes across; feeling that ultimately there is no point to what we do — it is probably because Whatever Works was written about the time Allen completed the script for Annie Hall in the mid 1970s.

Leguizamo was no sloth in working on ‘Ice Age’Leguizamo was no sloth in working on ‘Ice Age’
It takes a while for John Leguizamo to get into sloth.

Mann, Dillinger share some similarities
Hollywood is full of filmmakers who are uncompromising perfectionists, but only Michael Mann could boast that he not only has a favorite room to screen his films — the Zanuck theater on the Fox lot — but also a favorite row in the theater where he thinks you should park your fanny for the optimal viewing experience.

Woody Allen describes comic Larry David as his ‘kind of actor’
NEW YORK — On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s alter ego has realized two fantasies: starring in a Mel Brooks production (as Max Bialystock in The Producers) and acting in a Martin Scorsese film (as a Jewish gangster).

Video: Sensitive coming-of-age drama keeps taking unexpected turns
The crew of the coming-of-age drama The Education of Charlie Banks (Anchor Bay, $29.97) spent a month in June 2006 filming on Rhode Island locations with Fred Durst, formerly the lead singer of Limp Bizkit, making his feature movie debut and a cast that included Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter and Eva Amurri, who is Susan Sarandon’s daughter.

07/01/2009

Movie Review: ‘Public Enemies’ surprisingly flat
There’s no lack of shoot-’em-up action in director Michael Mann’s Public Enemies: violent bank robberies, prison breaks, chases by car and on foot roar across the screen.

06/30/2009

Literary couple loved co-writing screenplay for ‘Away We Go’
CHICAGO — Acclaimed author Dave Eggers and his wife, Vendela Vida, were expecting their first child, and they were doing all the things that first-time parents are apt to do, reading the baby books, setting up the nursery and politely listening to heaps of advice from well-meaning friends and strangers.

06/28/2009

Iran’s filmmakers challenge regime, clamor for new elections
Exiled Iranian filmmakers are challenging the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and speaking up for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi after the disputed elections earlier this month.

06/27/2009

Veteran child actor Abigail Breslin’s star keeps shining
If this acting thing doesn’t work out, Abigail Breslin wouldn’t mind being a veterinarian one day, but then there’s the blood thing.

06/26/2009

Megan Fox’s acting career changed by ‘Transformers’
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — If stares were lasers, Megan Fox would be Swiss cheese.

Movie Review: A sad look at a family after a matriarch’s death
It may have a breezy, carefree title, but director Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours is actually a rumination on what happens to a family after a loved one’s death and the stuff that’s left behind.

Movie Review: Bravery fills secret dispatches in ‘Burma VJ’
Many of the images in Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country are shaky and blurred, captured with video cameras small enough to be quickly concealed in circumstances of danger and chaos. The lack of cinematic polish emphasizes the urgency of these pictures and the bravery of the anonymous camera operators — “VJ” stands for “video journalists” — who risked their safety, their freedom and their lives to record popular protests against the military government of Myanmar and the regime’s brutal response.

Actress Cameron Diaz is relaxed and happy despite her loss
LOS ANGELES — From the window of the sunlit suite where Cameron Diaz sits, there is a beautiful view of the Santa Monica beach with blue sky, fluffy white clouds above. The 36-year-old star is dressed to match — a lightweight white sweater with thin blue horizontal stripes, white slacks.

Movie Review: A quirky look at modern life
Director Sam Mendes, who explored the darker side of American life in his Academy Award-wining American Beauty and more recently in Revolutionary Road, takes an uncharacteristically sunny road in the very smart, very offbeat Away We Go.

Video: Inspector Clouseau bumbles in riotous ‘Pink Panther 2’
Steve Martin returns as the bumbling, disaster-prone Inspector Clouseau in the riotous The Pink Panther 2 (MGM, $29.98), leaving mayhem in his wake as he is recruited to join an international team of detectives to find the thief known as “The Tornado” who has made off with the world’s treasures, including the Shroud of Turin, the Japanese emperor’s sword and the fabulous Pink Panther diamond.

TOP RENTALS
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06/21/2009

Pell Awards honor Kevin Spacey
Arts lovers and the Newport elite gathered at the home of the late Sen. Claiborne Pell Saturday night to honor Pell for his leadership in the arts and to bestow a national Pell Award on actor Kevin Spacey.

06/20/2009

‘Proposal’ actress Betty White loves animals, and everybody loves her
Betty White has been stealing scenes for more years than most people can remember. In the new Sandra Bullock-Ryan Reynolds comedy, The Proposal, she stole a puppy.

Famous dads — good and bad — from the silver screen
Most conversations about memorable movie dads tend to be brief. Why? Because they usually begin and end with Gregory Peck’s portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

06/19/2009

Sandra Bullock, at 44, still as durable and likable as ever
On Friday, Sandra Bullock rematerializes in The Proposal, after spending about two years off the movie grid (and a few more than that MIA from the romantic-comedy arena). The film, from 27 Dresses director Anne Fletcher, stars Bullock as a pushy Canadian publishing exec who coerces her assistant (Ryan Reynolds) into marriage, so she can stay in the United States.

Movie Review: ‘Easy Virtue’ both jaunty and daunting
Easy Virtue, Stephan Elliott’s carbonated screen adaptation of an early Noel Coward play, is so intent on sustaining a facade of fizzy effervescence that it incorporates bouncy period-style versions of songs by Coward and Cole Porter as a peppy running soundtrack.

Movie review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ explores the simulation of intimacy
Steven Soderbergh shot The Girlfriend Experience over a few weeks last fall, with a relatively low budget, a portable high-definition video camera and a mostly nonprofessional cast. The film’s means are modest, but nonetheless The Girlfriend Experience has a sleek, tailored look appropriate to its setting, which is the moneyed precincts of Manhattan at the height — and most likely the end — of the recent gilded age. Every frame swims with signs of dearly bought, casually enjoyed luxury, as the camera makes its way from high-end boutiques to jewel-box hotels, exclusive restaurants and the cabin of a private plane.

TOP RENTALS
Source: Redbox / MCT

Video by Michael Janusonis: ‘Friday the 13th’ is back —with up-to-date depravity
Those not-so-happy campers are back at Crystal Lake to again meet up with the hockey-masked Jason Voorhees in the remake of Friday the 13th — Killer Cut (Warner, $28.98).

Sean Penn drops out as Larry of The Three Stooges
Sean Penn will not be one of the The Three Stooges or join Cartel.

06/15/2009

‘Pelham’ actor Luis Guzman brings his characters to life
What’s the biggest difference between a character actor and a leading man?

06/14/2009

It took hard days to make Easy Virtue
“I usually hate these kinds of films. Merchant Ivory films put me out like a light,” Australian director Stephan Elliott said with a theatrical roll of his eyes. Nevertheless, he’s adapted Noel Coward’s 1924 play Easy Virtue into a comedy of manners that promises to relaunch his career.