Rodrigo Garcia directed this dual character study based on a George Moore novella set in turn-of-20th-century Dublin. Glenn Close, Gabriella Prekop and novelist John Banville wrote the screenplay, with Close starring as the title character, a repressed woman passing for a man working in a shabby hotel.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are snuggled warmly in their comfort zone in the chilly horror-comedy Dark Shadows, their eighth collaboration as director and star, respectively, and their weakest by far.
Three brothers have mommy issues in the Blu-ray debut of this deliciously perverse 2010 slasher remake loosely based on the 1980 original of the same name.
The summer silly season kicks off with The Avengers, the new computer-effects driven adventure based on Marvel Comics’ superheroes. The convoluted saga brings together under one title many, if not all, of Marvel’s cartoonish creations.
The problem that plagues so many Judd Apatow productions — the one that keeps good comedies from being great ones — unfortunately exists in The Five-Year Engagement, too. It’s a matter of knowing when to say when, of knowing which bits should be trimmed and which should have been cut altogether.
Let The Deep Blue Sea be exhibit A against the argument for returning to the good ol’ days of the 1950s. With little ornament, yet much soulful agonizing, the intense new drama reveals many of the shortcomings but few of the pleasures of that era.
Breaking convention can be great fun. And the new horror flick The Cabin in the Woods does that, taking gleeful delight in puncturing those tired and formulas of the genre.
This week, we begin in Conroe: "Into the Abyss" (***1/2) Rated PG-13, 107 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
You probably haven’t been lying awake in bed at night wondering whatever became of Stifler and Oz and the rest of the horny kids from the original American Pie movie.
This week, we start during World War I: “War Horse” (**1/2) Rated PG-13, 146 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
What’s the old saying — “3-D fool me once, shame on you, 3-D fool me twice, shame on me?”
This week, we begin in Zurich: "A Dangerous Method" (***) Rated R, 99 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
It’s been said that the prospect of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is as unlikely as a man landing on Mars. And as impossible as both events might seem, this new romantic comedy, to its credit, at least makes the fishing part sound plausible.
This week we greet the arrival of several of last year’s favorites: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (****) Rated R, 160 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
Sometimes a movie takes an unexpected turn. And how the movie handles that turn could determine whether it succeeds. In a faltering work, the twist may look false and contrived. But when done with a masterly touch, such as in the enchanting new French film Delicacy, the results can be rewarding.
This week, we begin in Hawaii: "The Descendants" (****) Rated R, 115 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD.
Friends with Kids has much to say about relationships. And since the new romantic comedy by Jennifer Westfeldt (who wrote and starred in Kissing Jessica Stein) has an ultra-modern take on the subject, it covers not only the traditional husband-wife dynamic, but it also appears to branch out into new territory.
This week, we begin with some serious intrigue: "The Red Danube" (***) Not rated, 119 minutes. "British Agent" (***) Not rated, 80 minutes.
Movies are good at showing us our limits. It’s easy to sit in a dark auditorium and confront dangers we might never face in our daily lives. Even cheesy horror films can show us deplorable acts that we know we would never survive.
Film’s biggest night, the Academy Awards, is here, and how fitting that the two most-nominated films are odes to the love of cinema. For most of us, if we get to the movies — and we never do — it’s usually for some fluff someone else dragged us to, or God help us, for whatever noisefest Channing Tatum is starring in. So when we tune in to the Oscars — which airs live from Hollywood at 7:30 p.m. today on ABC — aren’t most of us just rooting for whoever has the best outfit and might have the most entertaining (read: shortest) speech?
This week, we begin in Israel: "The Debt" (***1/2) Not rated, 87 minutes. Now available on DVD.
Wanderlust would provide an intriguing double feature with the acclaimed indie drama Martha Marcy May Marlene.
This week, we begin with the Master of Suspense: Rebecca (****1/2) Not rated. 131 minutes. Spellbound (****1/2) Not rated. 118 minutes. Notorious (****) Not rated. 102 minutes.
Think of Thin Ice as Wisconsin’s Fargo. The new work from the filmmaking Sprecher sisters uses their native Wisconsin for a probing look at a tortured man. He gives few clues as to why he behaves the way he does, but his troubles escalate even more when he meets someone more terrible than he is.
Denton resident Andy LaViolette got into the film production game by a meandering route. Andy LaViolette
This week, we begin in 16th-century Flanders: The Mill and the Cross (****) Not rated, 92 minutes. Available Tuesday on DVD. The Mill and the Cross, which takes the viewer inside Bruegel’s masterpiece The Procession to Calvary." onclick="clickedImg(this);" alt="Kino Lorber" src="/s/dws/img/drc/02-12/0212dvdsm.jpg" Kino Lorber Rutger Hauer plays painter Pieter Bruegel in The Mill and the Cross, which takes the viewer inside Bruegel’s masterpiece The Procession to Calvary. View larger More photos Photo store
The Campus Theatre nearly filled Friday night for the opening of the Thin Line Film Fest.
This week, we begin in France: The Cinema of Jean Rollin — Fascination, The Nude Vampire, Lips of Blood, Shiver of the Vampire, The Iron Rose. Available Tuesday on DVD. Fascination, directed by Jean Rollin. Remastered versions of five 1970s horror films by the French director are to be released Tuesday on DVD, including the most recommended of his vampire movies, Fascination." alt="The New York Times/La Cinematheque de Toulouse" width="268" src="/s/dws/img/drc/02-12/0205artsdvdsm.jpg" onclick="clickedImg(this);" The New York Times/La Cinematheque de Toulouse Brigitte Lahaie stars in the 1979 film Fascination, directed by Jean Rollin. Remastered versions of five 1970s horror films by the French director are to be released Tuesday on DVD, including the most recommended of his vampire movies, Fascination. View larger More photos Photo store
Big Miracle will pull at your heartstrings. But, unfortunately, that seems to be about all that it does.
