— by BEV QUESTAD — Part dance-musical, part Monty Python farce, part Shakespearean rendition on the “All the world’s a stage” theme, part melodrama and then a dollop of realistic tragedy makes “Anna Karenina” one ambitious experiment in art. But would Leo Tolstoy like it? With [...]
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Review: Rise of the Guardians
— by ADAM DALE — If you thought that Marvel’s “The Avengers” would be the only hero team-up film you would be seeing hitting the big screen this year, think again. Shifting from comic book heroes to fairy tales is the DreamWorks animated film “Rise of the Guardians,” which show[...]
Five Posters from Anna Karenina
— by ADAM POYNTER — Oscar-Nominated Director Joe Wright is back in his element with a new epic period film, “Anna Karenina,” that is based on the famed Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name that was released in 1877. Based on a novel like his previous movie, “Pride & Prejudice,[...]
Trailer: Rise of the Guardians
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — When I first heard about “Rise of the Guardians” — and being unfamiliar with the series of books written by William Joyce — I assumed the 3D animated picture was a sequel to “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole.” Of course, my ass[...]
Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
— by ADAM DALE — In 2009 director Guy Ritchie surprised us all by bringing the legendary personage, Sherlock Holmes — from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories — to life and at the same time making him intriguing and a unique take on the character with his eccentric tendencies.[...]
Soundtrack for ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Sequel Due Dec. 13
WaterTower Music has announced the release of “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” with an original score by Oscar®, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight,” “[...]
Under Review: ‘Contagion’
— by ADAM POYNTER — The scariest films to me are not those that choose to show you the blood and gore, it is those that plant an idea in your mind like a virus in a host and the idea germinates until it envelopes you. I have always said that the mind is far […][...]
Poster Peek: ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’
— by ADAM POYNTER — “Sherlock Holmes” is a very astute and logical detective stemming from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tales as far back as 1887. The character was re-imagined by director Guy Ritchie (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch”) in 2009.[...]
All-Star Cast Begins Work on Contagion
Principal photography is under way on Warner Bros. Pictures’ global thriller “Contagion,” being directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”). The film brings together a stellar international ensemble cast, including Academy Award winner Marion Cotill[...]
If I Was Making … ‘Sherlock Holmes 2’
— by BEN FOWLER — Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” was a great movie. It had action, adventure, laughs with a few scares thrown in too. The great thing with it is how it ended with anything being possible for the inevitable sequel. The filmmakers have said as much anyway[...]
Under Review: ‘Repo Men’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — It seems like heath care is an increasingly-heated debate among political giants, but this weekend, Miguel Sapochnik joins the dispute. Though it may seem unfair to target the first-time director for an almost complete misunderstanding of the health care system, [...]
Seven Clips from ‘Repo Men’
— by ALLISON HIGGINBOTHAM — There’s an argument that sci-fi movies are really just metaphors for the problems societies face today. If that’s the case for “Repo Men,” then we are in a bad state. In the society of “Repo Men,” people are given body parts on loan. If you can pay[...]
Under Review: ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — Heath Ledger’s death turned heads back in January of last year; just a couple months before the release of the hyped “The Dark Knight,” in which Ledger played the iconic Batman villain, The Joker — for which he later won an Oscar (becoming[...]