Downey and Duvall battle in 'The Judge'
Friday, 17 October 2014, 11:33
Last update: about 11 years ago
Just put Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall in a room together and you'll have a movie, a truism that "The Judge" does its damnedest to disprove. David Dobkin's film doesn't leave a melodramatic...
Colorado approves $5M incentive for Tarantino film
Friday, 17 October 2014, 11:32
Last update: about 11 years ago
Colorado on Friday approved a $5 million incentive package to lure production of the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film "The Hateful Eight." The Oscar-winning screenwriter's movie could...
Blood on the jazz drums, in 'Whiplash'
Thursday, 16 October 2014, 11:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
If you've ever sat in a jazz club or concert and thought the band was just riffing the night away with nary a care in the world, "Whiplash" should whip that feeling out of you faster than a really...
'Alexander' a snappy, benign comedy
Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 11:26
Last update: about 11 years ago
Given its premise, "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" could have been a lot more horrible and no good than it is. In fact, at a quick 82 minutes, this straight-arrow family...
Hundred Foot Journey
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 15:49
Last update: about 11 years ago
Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. When Hassan and his family, led by Papa (Om Puri), move to a quaint village in the South of...
If I Stay
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 15:46
Last update: about 11 years ago
Gayle Forman's best-selling novel comes to the big screen in New Line Cinema's and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures' drama If I Stay, starring Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie, the Kick-Ass films),...
Dracula Untold
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 15:44
Last update: about 11 years ago
Almost an entire century after the world's cinematic introduction to Dracula placed audiences under his haunting spell, the studio that pioneered the genre reawakens one of legend's most captivating...
'Men, Women & Children' doesn't click
Friday, 10 October 2014, 11:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
If ever there was a movie that needed a window to be opened, a blast of fresh air to be let in, it's Jason Reitman's "Men, Women & Children." The film, adapted from Chad Kultgen's novel, is...
'Gone With the Wind' at 75: Celebration, censure
Thursday, 9 October 2014, 10:17
Last update: about 11 years ago
As its 75th anniversary approaches, "Gone With the Wind" is again being celebrated as a timeless movie classic. But now, even the film's distributor acknowledges the Civil War epic's portrayal of...