Movies & FilmTom Cruise Acts His Age in Digger
The message hanging over this film seems to be: We will never willingly solve this crisis.
The message hanging over this film seems to be: We will never willingly solve this crisis.
Robert Pattinson has had a busy year. After getting his wedding day ruined in The Drama and trying to kill Odysseus in The Odyssey, he's now turning the hunt for sexual predators into big-time TV in Primetime.
Part of what makes these movies so invigorating is that Shaun is a sheep only in the literal sense, not in the figurative. He's not a conformist, not a follower of the flock.
The noble art of cracking wise at bad movies is one of the last of our culture's great oral traditions to be co-opted by professionals. But co-opted it was, in the late ’80s, by Mystery Science Theatre 3000, which at its best was humblingly brilliant TV.
Both major releases this week are dinosaur-forward, so as usual I'll start with a disclaimer: Any movie with dinosaurs starts at an advantage with me. Take what I say about any dinosaur movie with a grain of salt.
Exciting as this Odyssey is, however, there’s a sadness to it as well, a sense that we're seeing the end of a Golden Age and the beginning of an era of disillusionment brought about through the brutality of war and the flouting of social and civic norms.
The goggled, giggling little goobers who look like ambulatory yellow Tic Tacs are back in Minions & Monsters.
By the standards of big summer blockbusters, this Supergirl is relatively modest in scope, which I found agreeable.
Played by Hugh Jackman, the title character is presented here as a scoundrel, murderous brigand and varlet.
Disclosure Day is a sci-fi epic in the form of a chase thriller.
Tall and imposingly fleshy, Fraser also manages to give us a human Eisenhower.
After the eye-crossing political backstory of the much-lamented Star Wars prequel and sequel trilogies, it was refreshing.
The Marc in Marc by Sofia is Marc Jacobs; the Sofia is Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola, who directed this documentary about the fashion designer. The two are close friends, and the title is a reference to "Marc by Marc Jacobs," the designer's former side line of handbags, perfumes and the like.
The movie is a monster, stitched together out of wildly disparate sources of inspiration.
Opening wide this weekend after a week exclusively on IMAX screens, EPIC starts with a speedily-edited summary of Presley's early career, his detractors who condemned the moves of his gyrating pelvis, his military service, his movie career, etc.