Friday, June 14, 2013
In December 2009, less than two months before he planned to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, snowboarder Kevin Pearce crashed during a practice run on the half pipe. In Park City, Utah for training, Pearce …
Friday, June 14, 2013
The apocalyptic satire This Is the End was made for admirers of Seth Rogen and James Franco, who, the movie suggests, may be their own biggest fans. An alternately sly and wildly indulgent exercise in omni-referential humor, This Is the End is accidently true to its title: As …
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Bloomberg News New York — When it comes to box-office dollars, the Avengers and other Marvel superheroes are mightier than DC Comics. Films based on Marvel comic books have generated 47 percent more in U.S. box-office sales on average than DC Comics movies, according to data compiled by …
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Believability has no place in The Internship. This is a movie in which two middle-aged men, both suddenly unemployed and, in one case, facing foreclosure, decide their wisest move is to apply for unpaid internships at Google even …
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Associated Press Los Angeles — Robert De Niro and Morgan Freeman never worked with Mel Brooks, and the Oscar winners came to a ceremony in his honor to let him know they resent it. Brooks received the American …
Saturday, June 1, 2013
If Fast & Furious 6 were any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon. But no one goes to any installment in this car-chase, skull-bashing slam-o-rama expecting education, enlightenment or, heck, even a story that makes …
Friday, May 31, 2013
Phyl Harmon began her documentary about the history of the Upper Valley copper mines in 1995 by interviewing the last surviving men who’d worked in them. Many of those men have since died, but Harmon’s film, Riches and …
Friday, May 31, 2013
What do you give the kid who has everything? His own summer action-adventure blockbuster, of course. That’s exactly what Will Smith has done for his 14-year-old son, Jaden, with After Earth, a sci-fantasy film based on a story …
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Cannes, France — Every film festival presents the temptation to find an overarching theme, even if a filmgoer has to stand on her tippy-toes to find it. But even to the most jaded, this year’s Cannes Film Festival presented undeniable links, not just between the films being shown …
Saturday, May 25, 2013
After The Hangover Part II, more than one critic took filmmaker Todd Phillips to task for too slavishly following the first movie’s winning formula, ingredient for ingredient. For a story so heavily dependent on the element of surprise …