Thursday, March 7, 2013
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles — Who can resist James Bond? Sam Mendes, that’s who. Mendes directed Skyfall — the latest in the lucrative James Bond series, and one of the most financially successful movies of all time — but he’s said no to directing the next installment …
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Much like the imaginary setting of Jack the Giant Slayer — a floating land called Gantua, situated halfway between heaven and Earth, and populated by a race of CGI giants — the fairy tale-inspired film is stuck between …
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Los Angeles — The big winners at this year’s Academy Awards: adult moviegoers. For years, the studios have fixated on young men in their teens and 20s, serving up big-budget popcorn movies populated with dazzling visual effects, comic book heroes and high-voltage action sequences. They’ve also made films …
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Here is a youth comedy that is leering, offensive, politically incorrect, at times even disgusting and yet not a bummer. In fact, those who stick with it to the end may find 21 and Over one of the more appealing movies of the season. Written and directed by …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Los Angeles — Ben Affleck’s Argo, a film about a fake movie, has earned a very real prize: best picture at the Academy Awards. From the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Jack Nicholson to help present the final prize. “There are eight great films that have …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Los Angeles — This sturdy Austrian had supporting roles in the recent action movies Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty, the TV Western Justified and the military video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The ubiquitous performer — actually a semiautomatic pistol — is the Glock-17. A kind of Kevin …
Friday, February 22, 2013
In the fall and winter of 2007, mime and Circus Smirkus founder Rob Mermin holed up at his home in Montpelier, with a tough (but someone’s got to do it) job ahead of him. Commissioned by the Green …
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Amour confronts the end with a steady gaze. It is a double portrait of Anne and Georges, elderly Parisian music teachers enjoying a serene, cultivated retirement. The opening shots, static and calm, emphasize their closeness after decades of marriage. They are side by side in the audience as …
Monday, February 11, 2013
New York — Watching Identity Thief, the new Seth Gordon road comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, I found myself thinking a lot about the female comic grotesque. It’s easy, and safe, to space in and out of such abstractions during the viewing of Identity Thief — …
Saturday, February 9, 2013
In theaters, the movies might look the same. But perhaps now we see them differently. After the gun massacre in Newtown, Conn., in December, the ground shifted for good. Assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and background checks became a permanent part of the conversation, as did movies and video …
Maggie Cassidy
By Don's Early Light
