Due Date, Nov. 5, Warner Bros.
Paging 1987! Due Date, Todd Philips’ follow up to last year’s surprise smash The Hangover, seems to borrow from an old favorite’s formula–cough, Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Take two mismatched strangers, strand them far away from the familiar and force them to band together to find their way home. Read More
Starting September 21, theater aficionados outside of Circle in the Square on Broadway will be sharing turf with an unlikely set of ticket-holders: football fans.
Last April, producers Tony Ponturo and Fran Kirmser announced plans for Lombardi, about inspirational football coach Vince Lombardi, with The National Football League as a producing and marketing partner–the first Read More
It begins with a close-up of a ticking old-timey pocket watch, the shot widening to reveal a man on a boat bobbing on night-darkened waters. There’s a heap of atmospheric silver-blue haze. A foghorn sounds in the distance. Moments later, we see the shining lights in the distance that we’re told is Atlantic City, 1920. Read More
Leo who? Jump into a pile of fall films from Clooney, Woody, Stone and the brothers Affleck.
The Australian-made Animal Kingdom is among the most gripping, well-paced, acted and directed, and generally thrilling of anything that I’ve seen (yet) this year.
From the opening scene, where we meet a fellow named Joshua (James Frecheville), sitting passively next to his slumped-over unconscious mother and keeping an eye on the TV Read More
What is going to happen to Michael Cera’s career when he really grows up? This is one of the things I found myself wondering about when my attention started wandering during Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. (Also: How can a movie so clearly directed at an audience with generational ADD drag on so? Read More
Prepare to forget all about mopey teenage vampires, Airbenders and whatever animated thing is currently ruling the box office. Perhaps 2010′s most eagerly anticipated film, Inception-Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to 2008′s critical and commercial smash The Dark Knight-will hit theaters on July 16 (cue nerd jubilation). Inception shares DNA with The Dark Knight-similarly dark, moody, gorgeous, Read More
O.K., so I think I might finally have a handle on Tom Cruise. Not Tom Cruise the “human being,” mind you-’cause, get serious, who (save Xenu) has a handle on that-but Tom Cruise, Movie Star. I say this after seeing Mr. Cruise’s new film, Knight and Day. The credits rolled, and as I blinked my Read More
Movies about our current wars have been well-documented box office disasters (do you remember seeing Stop Loss, In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, The Kingdom, Rendition, or Home of the Brave?). The Hurt Locker may have taken home the Academy Award for Best Picture, but it still grossed less money than a summer blockbuster’s opening Read More
“Hey, look over there. There’s a dude out there. What the fuck is he doing?” Casey Affleck, distracted mid-thought in response to a question about his new movie, The Killer Inside Me, stood up to get a better look out the window from his room at the Crosby Street Hotel, at a man dressed in Read More
