When producer-turned-director Lee Daniels finished “Precious,” his adaptation of the 1996 novel by Sapphire, late last year, he was under the impression that it would be a straight-to-DVD release. Then he got two ideas. The first came from a remark his ...
Wow! We’ve already got a big Christmas turkey, and it’s not even close to Thanksgiving. Filmmaker Bob Zemeckis always has been one to turn to for something new and different. He gave us, among others, the inventive “Back to the Future” trilogy, the ...
It’s odd enough seeing the characters that George Clooney and Jeff Bridges play in the oddly titled, Iraq-set satirical film “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” which opens Friday. Clooney is Len Cassady, a “businessman” with a cloudy past that involves ...
It would be accurate to say that Michael Moore is up to his old tricks in his new film “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He once again tackles corporate bad guys and how their actions create problems for those of us down here on the ground. But away from his ...
The first “Star Trek” movie, in 1979, had a tag on its title. It was called “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” But after seeing it, most folks called it “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture.” That’s certainly not the case with this one. There’s no time ...
It’s no easy feat to step into the shoes of an icon. In the case of the new “Star Trek,” that included filmmakers and cast dealing with the original TV show, which aired four decades ago and lasted only three seasons, but whose groundbreaking ripples ...
Beautiful to look at, simple in its message, the animated “Battle for Terra” has been sitting on a shelf for almost two years, probably because no one could figure out exactly who it was for. Much care has been taken in the physical part, from graceful ...
Let’s hear it for the romantic comedy, that staple of cinema since the ’30s, that tried and true formula where all is fine at the beginning, things get messed up in the middle, then somehow everything works out and leads to happily ever after. Movie ...
I grew up on Walt Disney True-Life Adventure movies — great stuff like “Beaver Valley,” “The Living Desert” and, my favorite, “Perri,” the tale of a boy-girl squirrel relationship. For a long period there was a dearth of quality nature films in ...
As I was leaving the screening of “The Informers,” I was out of sorts — conflicted about my thoughts toward the film, unsure whether it was good or awful — and actually feeling kind of ill. Two days later, one of my film critic compatriots mentioned to ...
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