Enter The Void and Nowhere Boy During the 1960s, certain films like 2001: A Space Odyssey earned a reputation as “head films.” Clued-in hippies would drop LSD at an appropriate moment to tune in, turn on and groove on the pretty colors. Some were plenty ridiculous—an inordinate amount of these head films featured the hero [...]
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Buried Ryan Reynolds wakes up in a box with just a cigarette lighter and a cell phone which isn’t his for company. Over the next hour-and-a-half, we watch his increasingly panicked efforts to get help. Complicating his efforts are his mysterious captors, a lack of oxygen and a few other terrifying surprises that it would [...]
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The Social Network As just about everyone knows, the making of Facebook wasn’t exactly a friendly affair. This industrial epic looks at how hoodie-wearing Harvard outsider Mark Zuckerberg created the ultimate meet ‘n’ greet forum and in doing so, alienated just about everyone he knew. Anybody expecting to learn just why Foursquare updates and baby [...]
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Machete & The Last Exorcism The year begins with two smart twists on film genre. Machete grew out of a trailer in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez‘s tribute to ’70s exploitation Grindhouse. As a full-length feature, it’s a sugar-addicted ADD kid on the rampage, giddily lurching from one guilty pleasure to the next, whether it’s [...]
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gordon Gekko was originally meant to be a villain. But when he told an audience in 1987′s Wall Street that “Greed is good,” a generation of aspiring hedge fund operators took his words to heart. In this long-awaited sequel, it turns out that writer-director Oliver Stone has finally fallen for [...]
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The A-Team & The Other Guys Call it the A-Team and the B-Team. Smokin’ Aces director Joe Carnahan‘s big-screen reboot of the ’80s action TV series has all the elements present and correct: cigar, that theme tune, “I love it when a plan comes together,” and knuckles tattooed with the words “pity” and “fool.” Beneath [...]
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Inception How do you follow The Dark Knight? If you’re writer-director Christopher Nolan, with a cerebral hit about an A-Team of dream spies. Inception has been called both “adult” and “intelligent,” which means basically that its complicated universe is only explained once by the furiously expositing characters. After that, you’re on your own. Leonardo Di [...]
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse The third installment of the popular bloodsucking series kicks off with some explosive developments. Chaste Edward (dreamy Robert Pattinson) finally proposes to Bella (lip-biting Kristen Stewart). It looks like the toothsome teens are set to begin a life of undead bliss together, but the flame-haired Victoria still has a wooden stake [...]
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Eat Pray Love When ordinary people do strange things for no reason, it’s a David Lynch movie. When Julia Roberts does strange things for no reason, it’s Eat Pray Love. In this travelogue/rom-com, she walks out on both handsome Billy Crudup and sexy James Franco to go through the title’s three steps. It’s a journey [...]
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Disney’s A Christmas Carol Robert Zemeckis is the genius director behind the techie entertainments Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Forrest Gump. For the last decade, however, he’s been obsessed with 3-D motion-capture animation, where animators create a computerized image around filmed actors. The results are often disconcerting, largely because of the [...]
