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05/09/2008

Please just go, Speed
Before they repeated themselves to exhaustion, Andy and Larry Wachowski came up with a good idea and then brought it to screen in their revolutionary The Matrix. Now, they are asked to bring some of that chaotic energy to Speed Racer.

Submission position
No one weaves such tangled webs of lies, corruption and deceit as David Mamet. Into his world of cutthroats, card sharks and magicians, he has, in his new release Redbelt, mixed in something even more surprising.

Movie Summaries

05/04/2008

Action-adventure classic seen anew through the sunny gaze of childhood

Paramount Vantage

Will Poulter, left, stars as Olee Carter and Bill Milner is Will Proudfoot in 'Son of Rambow.'"

Garth Jennings was an impressionable 12-year-old when he first saw a pirated copy of First Blood, a film that, more than a quarter-century later, wound up becoming the inspiration for his own film, Son of Rambow.

New to DVD: Edgy, unusual Dylan film
Where are you? His name is never spoken, but his ever-present songs offer a big hint. The life story sounds familiar, and the moody, mumbling artists who play him remind us of someone. It’s the hydra-headed Bob Dylan, in surely the strangest mainstream film from last year: "I'm Not There."

05/02/2008

Iron-clad action
That audible sigh of relief comes from knowing that the first blockbuster of the summer is a lot of fun. The loud, brassy and explosive Iron Man may not walk away with many Oscars, but it certainly will draw audiences, and will probably satisfy the demanding tastes of the Marvel comic book fans.

To the beat of a different drum
The title character of The Visitor could be almost anyone in the film. Or it could refer to any of the estimated 12 million “visitors” now in this country. Some people, however, have harsher names for them.

04/27/2008

Actor picks up rhythm skills while playing a lonely man who starts to stand up for immigrants
AUSTIN — Richard Jenkins is the classic Everyman. He’s an actor with dozens of film, stage and television roles to his credit, in a resume dotted with a versatile array of acclaimed supporting roles that have rarely thrust him into the public spotlight. Jenkins had worked steadily in the business for more than 30 years before filmmaker Tom McCarthy offered him the lead role in The Visitor, a provocative, character-driven drama that gives him the meaty lead role he’d dreamed about for decades.

New to DVD: Weighty ‘Diving Bell’ and fluffy ‘27 Dresses’ push actors to do their finest
Artist Julian Schnabel directed "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," his third film, with his highly trained eye. The French language film shatters movie convention, while remaining an entertaining, warm, revelatory work. It initially disorients by unfolding from the point of view of a paralyzed, bedridden man who wakes to find himself suffering from “locked in syndrome,” wherein nothing on his body functions except his left eye.