Josh Brolin impersonating Tommy Lee Jones is worth the price of admission to “Men in Black 3.” Dry, drawling, deadpan – he nails the flinty Texan in this sentimental sequel to the sci-fi comedies about secret agents who save the world from aliens.
The true crime story is a staple of TV and publishing, but only rarely inspires movies. How lucky we are that Richard Linklater bucked that trend to make “Bernie,” a one-of-a-kind comedy based on the real homicide of an innocent old lady.
“Freeway!”
“The Island President” is heartening and unsettling by turns. The heartening segments of this powerful new documentary are intentional; the unsettling elements illustrate what happens when your protagonist gets caught in the cogs of history.
Sidney Rittenberg has been called Chairman Mao’s favorite American. The 90-year-old Fox Island resident spent 34 years in China, sometimes at Mao’s side and at other times in prison.
Let’s blow stuff up.
It’s more than 10 years after 9/11. Is America ready for a movie that makes the destruction of the Empire State Building by terrorists the punch line for a joke? Are we ready for a picture that mines laughs as it hints that a similar fate is in store for the Statue of Liberty?
“What to Expect When You’re Expecting” is a “Valentine’s Day” take on impending parenthood. Assorted couples cope with pregnancies (planned and unplanned), adoption, and the epic change that is coming to their lives.
“Do not go gently into that good night,” the poet urged us. And that goes for actors as well as anybody else.
The years, gray hairs and wrinkles fade away from Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the cobwebs are brushed off “Dark Shadows” in Tim Burton’s campy and dark take on the late 1960s vampire soap opera. A cheesy and cheap but beloved TV program takes an affectionate ribbing in the film, which has more in common with “That ’70s Show” than its actual source.
She has the glow of someone who knows something we don’t, a Buddha’s smile, and a couple of lugs who will escort you from the premises if you dare doubt her.
The films of Whit Stillman are like the doodling of a well-born, eccentric amateur. The trends and excesses of the upper crust are his favorite prey, affectionately satirized and gently parodied.
Superhero success: Director Joss Whedon pulls together stellar characters, amazing special effects, delicious humor in Marvel Comics adventure.
All of us have known an Alex Libby.
“A classroom is a place of friendship, of work, of courtesy, a place of life,” says the hero of the deeply pleasurable French Canadian drama “Monsieur Lazhar.”
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