Horror Rated R
“If you’ve read The Ruins, you can probably guess there will come a point at which the movie succumbs to silliness. And sure enough, that moment arrives…
Drama Rated NR
From Japanese director Mikio Naruse, this melodrama is a sleek and handsome precursor to Memoirs of a Geisha. A thirtysomething “hostess” (Hideko Takamine) in the Ginza bar district is at a crossroads: should she accept a marriage offer from one of her suitors or buy a bar of her own? Takamine is a bit of
Thriller Rated NR
The movies’ first whack at Jack Finney’s 1954 serialized novel remains the best. When alien life forms try to take over the planet by replacing us with automaton look-alikes – walking vegetables that literally grow in pods – it’s up to a small-town doctor (an increasingly hysterical Kevin McCarthy) to fight the power. Director Don
Thriller Rated PG
This second attempt at a Body Snatchers movie may feature the silliest protagonist in science-fiction history: Donald Sutherland’s over-zealous San Francisco health inspector (for his entrance, he triumphantly identifies rat droppings in a pot of soup.) Such silliness – as well as Philip Kaufman’s ostentatious direction – undermines the insidious chill of the story’s conceit:
Drama Rated PG-13
“If you’ve ever rushed your kids from preschool to swimming lessons while a granola bar in the car serves as lunch for everyone along the way, this will be an irresistible guilty pleasure.
Drama Rated R
“Wanda De Jesus’ Pam Grier-worthy performance is the life force of the film. She’s like a domestic Foxy Brown.
Comedy Rated G
“…makes the fatal and ironic mistake of talking too much.
A movie primer of sorts on newspaper reporting – though not nearly in the same league as All the President’s Men – Resurrecting the Champ might be one of those pictures better appreciated by denizens of a newsroom than anyone else. Josh Hartnett plays a sports reporter who encounters a former boxing legend (Samuel L.
Drama Rated PG
This adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan stars Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson in roles that beg to be flip-flopped. Hunt plays Mrs. Erlynne, a serial seducer of other women’s husbands in the 1930s, while Johansson plays Meg Windermere, a naive newlywed whose groom is in danger of become Mrs. Erlynne’s next target. Hunt
There’s a constant low rumble throughout The Grey Zone – a sobering drama about the Sonderkommando, teams of Jewish prisoners who helped the Nazis usher new arrivals into the gas chambers in exchange for better living conditions – and at first you assume the noise is coming from the constantly burning crematoriums located underground. Then
