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New releases on DVD, Blu-ray
Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry explore the dark side of love in the Blu-ray debut of “Monsters Ball” while Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken get crazy in the gangster comedy “Seven Psychopaths.”
Aging stars make beautiful music in feel-good ‘Quartet’
Recently, we’ve been offered two films with radically different viewpoints on aging — Michael Haneke’s grim, yet loving, “Amour,” and now, “Quartet,” the one that won’t leave you feeling hopelessly traumatized.
Movies opening this weekend, still in theaters
The “Hurt Locker” team of director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal return to dramatize the hunt for Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Movie Preview: Sci-fi, fantasy and superheroes still rule in 2013
While we’re calculating the likely Oscar winners from 2012, we might as well start looking ahead to movie highlights of the coming year.
New releases on DVD, Blu-ray
Former college enemies become bff phone-sex entrepreneurs in “For a Good Time Call” and Zac Efron gets southern-fried sleazy with Matthew McConaughy, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack in “The Paperboy”
‘The Hobbit’ Take 2: Fewer frames per second means more movie magic
What a difference a couple dozen frames-per-second make. In my original review of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” I tried to warn readers about the ill effects of director Peter Jackson’s hyper-realistic, ultra-high-frame-rate on the film’s fantasy quotient.
Movies opening this weekend, still in theaters
The “Hurt Locker” team of director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal return to dramatize the hunt for Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.”
New releases on DVD, Blu-ray
A faithful servant observes Marie Antoinette’s last days at Versailles in “Farewell, My Queen,” a Jewish exorcist takes on an evil intruder in “The Possession,” Liam Neeson returns for more kidnapper bashing in “Taken 2” and Woody Allen goes Italian in “To Rome with Love.”
New releases on Blu-ray, DVD
Karl Urban delivers extreme justice in “Dredd,” while Tim Burton extends pet love beyond the grave in “Frankenweenie” and Dax Shepard revs up some action-romance in “Hit and Run.”
Movies opening this weekend, still in theaters
The “Hurt Locker” team of director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal return to dramatize the hunt for Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.”
‘Zero Dark’ brings the hunt for bin Laden to light
Though it’s difficult to watch, given its harrowing subject matter, “Zero Dark Thirty” is a film that really should be seen, as much for its dazzling cinematic qualities as its insights into the way the war on terrorism is waged.
