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Rise of the Guardians (PG) This animated adaptation of William Joyce’s book features Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny...
Silver Linings: Soaring Eagles
For whatever reason, this is a banner year for movies about mental illness set in Pennsylvania. We still have the excellent Pittsburgh teen flick...
Life of Pi: Cat Away
Remember when I wrote about “unfilmable” novels in my review of Cloud Atlas a few weeks ago? Well, Yann Martell’s Life of Pi was...
Film Shorts
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A Royal Affair (R) Based on 18th-century Danish history, Nikolaj Arcel’s drama is about a German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen) and an English-born queen (Alicia...
Lincoln: Long Live the Union
Here we are in 2012, and Steven Spielberg is still surprising me. Because Lincoln has been released one week after a presidential election, everyone...
Sessions: The 36-Year-Old Virgin
You can get a double dose of John Hawkes this week. The 53-year-old character actor was in Fort Worth last weekend to be feted...
Film Shorts
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This Must Be the Place (NR) Sean Penn stars in this dramedy by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) about a retired rock star who returns...
Skyfall: The Divine Ms. M
One thing the James Bond series has been known for is the “Bond girls,” those hot women of various ethnicities and varying degrees of...
Iron Fists: Wu, No!
Before he called himself RZA and conquered a big swath of the hip-hop world, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs was a teenager in New York, escaping...
Catching Up With the Classics (Part 2)
Continuing the project that I started a few weeks ago, here are thoughts on more of the canonical films that eluded me until now....
