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When John Hillcoat set about adapting “The Road,” he steeled himself for one of the great challenges of his life.
With a few cosmetic tweaks, Mount St. Helens provided the right devastation to serve as a backdrop for scenes in John Hillcoat’s film “The Road.&rdquo
If you enjoyed a documentary in a movie theater in the last year, odds are you won’t be seeing it at the Oscars in March.
The “Twilight” soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, “New Moon,” a movie directed by a man and not a woman.
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momentum that “The Proposal” gave her and that “All About Steve” threatened to kill with “The Blind Side,” a surprisingly smart and moving drama about a Memphis steel magnolia who doesn’t truly bloom until she takes in a homeless teen and gives him a life.
Invariably funny and inexpressibly moving in the way it looks at a young girl’s journey from innocence to experience, “An Education” does so many things so well, it’s difficult to know where to begin when cataloging its virtues.
It’s back to the future tonight at the Blue Mouse Theatre when the movie house celebrates its 86th birthday with the same silent film that opened the theater in 1923.
Having the skill to bring authentic stories to forceful and persuasive dramatic life is a gift not all writers have, but no one has it more than Britain’s Peter Morgan. Best known for having written “The Queen” and “Frost/Nixon,” Morgan does it again in his potent script for “The Damned United.”
It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn “Fantastic Mr. Fox” offers some of the most goofy fun you’ll have at a theater this season.
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Unless someone invents Smell-o-Vision before Wednesday’s global rollout of the documentary “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” fans will never get to know one of the most visceral aspects of working with the King of Pop.
“If not now, when?” the Jewish sage Hillel famously asked, and with “A Serious Man” the Coen brothers have answered.
The star power of “Gossip Girl” actor Penn Badgley is about to burn brighter when his thriller, “The Stepfather,” hits theaters today. Though he is only 22, the former Charles Wright Academy student is anything but a newbie to the acting business.
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