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Of all the acclaim that's come with Colin Firth's depiction of hidden grief in "A Single Man," precious little of it has focused on the physical Firth.
For its big screen debut, start-up studio CBS Films delivers what might, in an earlier age, have been a "disease of the week" TV movie.
In "Crazy Heart," Jeff Bridges takes the part of Bad Blake, and he takes it with both fists.
In the future, according to "The Book of Eli," we'll all dress like we're in a Nine Inch Nails video. It is written.
By turns warmly sentimental, serial-killer sinister and science-fiction fantastical, "The Lovely Bones" was an unlikely book to achieve worldwide success. In the film version, those mismatched elements come back to haunt the story, so to speak, making the final product more hit-and-miss than unblemished triumph.
If chemistry were all, then the sparks Amy Adams and Matthew Goode set off would be enough in "Leap Year," a romantic comedy in which those sparks never quite ignite.
In the "Daybreakers" future, the vampires have it all worked out.
"Punk" and "rebel" don't belong in the same sentence with "Michael Cera."
Any die-hard Sherlockian will tell you: Sure, Sherlock Holmes is quick to uncover clues and unmask subterfuge, even stand up to overwhelming evil. But when push comes to shove, he also can be counted on to bust out with some mucho macho action-hero moves.
Contemporary Hollywood can feel like a stagnant place, stocked with remakes and sequels.
Nine years ago - Dec. 15, 2000, to be exact – I created The Video Guy column with the simple premise of a regular guy reviewing movies.
Sociologist Peter Berger once said, "The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened."
"Brothers" is a movie built on that jarring disconnect between combat zone and "back home."
Facing one's mortality always is a difficult thing to deal with in real life. It's a little easier if you're in the movies, where the plot almost always saves the day.
Ever wish you could go to film school? The Olympia Film Society has a film series that could help you replicate the experience.