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Bronson

‘Bronson’’ bills itself as the story of Britain’s most notorious living prisoner, Michael Peterson, who early on in his 35 years in jail - 30 of them in solitary confinement - gave himself the “fighting name’’ of Charles Bronson, after the Hollywood ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Peterson,  Charles Bronson,  Nicolas Winding Refn,  Tom Hardy

Planet 51

As a wise frog once remarked, it’s not easy being green. Not only are the emerald-colored extraterrestrials in “Planet 51’’ terrified by the appearance of a human astronaut on their home turf, they’re imprisoned in a cruddy, reductive version of “Happy ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Justin Long,  Gary Oldman,  John Cleese,  Pixar,  DreamWorks

‘New Moon’ pales in comparison to ‘Twilight’

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon,’’ the second installment in Hollywood’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling vampire romance series, is an anemic comedown after the full-blooded swoon of last year’s “Twilight.’’ Where the first film’s director, ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephenie Meyer,  Catherine Hardwicke,  Chris Weitz,  Taylor Lautner,  Kristen Stewart

Review: Sequel is for "Boondock Saints" fans only

Julie Benz, left, and Clifton Collins Jr. star in "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day," a lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn't make you want to claw your eyes out. (Apparition Films ) It was 10 years ago that Troy ...

From TY BURR, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Miramax,  Troy Duffy,  Julie Benz,  Norman Reedus,  Willem Dafoe

Ten9Eight

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship was founded 22 years ago by Bronx high-school teacher Steve Mariotti upon a few basic notions. Why do so many kids drop out of high school? Because they’re not learning what they need to know. What do they need ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Mazzio

Pirate Radio

Sometimes history just isn’t as much fun as it should be. “Pirate Radio,’’ a rowdy, mostly hilarious British comedy-drama about the offshore radio stations that blared rock ’n’ roll to a desperate young UK audience in the 1960s, would much rather show ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Richard Curtis,  New York Yankees,  BBC,  Jack Davenport,  Johnny Depp

The Maid

The unsettling Chilean drama “The Maid’’ opens with deceptive simplicity. In an upper-class kitchen in the suburbs of Santiago, a blank-faced, middle-aged maid (Catalina Saavedra) sits down to dinner. On the soundtrack we hear the family for whom she ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Catalina Saavedra

2012

I like to imagine that the director Roland Emmerich had a key transformative experience at the age of 7, when a relative visiting from Bavaria accidentally trampled his scale model of the Reichstag. Suddenly a light bulb went on over our young Teuton’s ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roland Emmerich,  Irwin Allen,  Cecil B. DeMille,  Chiwetel Ejiofor,  Danny Glover

A Christmas Carol

Every generation may get the “Christmas Carol’’ it deserves, from the all-dancing, all-singing horrors of “Scrooge’’ (1970) to the brash comic mugging of “Scrooged’’ (1988) to the sleaze of the recent “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.’’ (The best? All votes ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Polar Express,  George C. Scott,  Jim Carrey,  Robert Zemeckis,  Gary Oldman

The Men Who Stare at Goats

‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’’ prompts an obvious question: Will there in fact be any goats stared at in this movie? And, if so, by whom and to what end? The answers - yes; George Clooney; to kill them by remote heart attack as part of a top-secret ...

From TY BURR, Boston Globe,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Clooney,  Jon Ronson,  Ewan McGregor,  Jeff Bridges,  The Pentagon

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