Last chance to catch the nominees before the Oscars on Sunday…. Plus: “Alice in Wonderland” opens! Tilda Swinton in crisis! Jean Harlow and Clara Bow! And “The Muppet Movie”!
Read more • Comments OffBruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in—no way!—a buddy movie about cops. Plus: A French prison film, a documentary about the Barnes Foundation, and Jack Nicholson before he went to seed.
Read more • Comments (0)Scorsese slums in “Shutter Island”; Demi Moore and Parker Posey as sisters; Oscar-nominated animated shorts; and “Annie,” “The Red Shoes,” and “Faster, Pusssycat! Kill! Kill!” What more could you want?
Read more • Comments OffNot much new this week, other than “The Wolfman,” “The Lightning Thief,” and “Valentine’s Day”—which is apparently even worse than one might have been led to expect.
Read more • Comments OffAll in all, this week is a fairly disturbing lineup of new releases: death in Denmark, gunplay in France, bleakness in Britain—and that’s not even including Dear John. So go see 2009′s best while they’re still in theaters! What else are you going to do on a cold and maybe snowy weekend?
Read more • Comments OffIf only there were a way to merge “Edge of Darkness” and “When in Rome”: Some S.O.B. snatched Mel Gibson’s coin from the Trevi Fountain, and nothing’s gonna stop him from getting it back….
Read more • Comments (0)Legion and The Tooth Fairy seem to indicate that bad-movie season is upon us once again. Better to catch up on the best of 2009: Up in the Air, Avatar, A Single Man, Crazy Heart, Broken Embraces, The Last Station, Invictus, Fish Tank….
Read more • Comments OffInvictus is “potent, intelligent filmmaking” (NYT) • “Like the speck of sand that seeds a pearl, it’s the tiny fleck of kitsch at the heart of A Single Man that makes it luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections” (Variety)
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