Los Angeles, CA (April 12, 2016) – You’ve never met a hero quite like Shrek, winner of the first Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature. The endearing ogre sparked a motion picture phenomenon and captured the world’s imagination with…the Greatest Fairy Tale Never Told! This irreverent animated masterpiece arrives on Digital HD on May 16, 2016 and Blu-ray™ and DVD on June 7 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Critics have called Shrek “not just a brilliant animated feature, but a superb film on any level” (Larry King, USA Today). Relive every moment of Shrek’s (Mike Myers) daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey (Eddie Murphy), and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). Enchantingly irreverent and “monstrously clever” (Leah Rozen, People Magazine), Shrek is an ogre-sized adventure you’ll want to see again and again.
Critics have called Shrek “not just a brilliant animated feature, but a superb film on any level” (Larry King, USA Today). Relive every moment of Shrek’s (Mike Myers) daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), with the help of his lovable loudmouthed Donkey (Eddie Murphy), and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow). Enchantingly irreverent and “monstrously clever” (Leah Rozen, People Magazine), Shrek is an ogre-sized adventure you’ll want to see again and again.
- 4/13/2016
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" received the most nominations at the 2013 Gotham Awards but in the end, the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" took home the big award of the night -- the Best Feature award. Matthew McConaughey also beat "12 Years a Slave's" Chiwetel Ejiofor with his memorable, feel it in your bones performance as a dying AIDS patient in "Dallas Buyers Club."
Is this a sign to come this awards season? Stay tuned!
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2013 Gotham Awards:
Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen, director; Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas, producers. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
David Lowery, director; Tony Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Amy Kaufman, Cassian Elwes, producers (IFC Films)
Before Midnight
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch,...
Is this a sign to come this awards season? Stay tuned!
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2013 Gotham Awards:
Best Feature
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen, director; Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas, producers. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
David Lowery, director; Tony Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Amy Kaufman, Cassian Elwes, producers (IFC Films)
Before Midnight
Richard Linklater, director; Richard Linklater, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Sara Woodhatch,...
- 12/3/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
This is a tough awards season! Lots of great movies to see, so little time! I'm catching up like crazy before we vote for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards for the Broadcast Film Critics Association. So I apologize if I haven't updated you with the latest on the awards season 2013-2014! And there were many award-giving bodies announcing nominations.
We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.
First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...
We already told you about the Rome Film Festival and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, now let's talk about the 2013 Gotham Awards, the Ida Documentary Awards, the Cinema Eye, and the Producers Guild announcing its best documentary choices.
First stop, we have the 2013 Gotham Awards where Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" topped the nominations with three nods including best feature, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor and breakthrough actor for Lupita Nyong'o.
Winners will be announced on Dec. 2nd where Richard Linklater, Forest Whitaker, and Katherine Oliver (head of the NYC...
- 12/2/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Special From Next Avenue
By Leah Rozen
Holland Taylor's one-woman Broadway show about the feisty Texas Gov. Ann Richards reminds us that life is a solo performance
Living well is the best revenge. But having that life portrayed on stage for all to see and reflect upon is almost as good.
Holland Taylor, probably best known to most of America for playing the wise-cracking mother of Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" is reliving the exceedingly colorful and eventful life of former Gov. Ann Richards of Texas nightly on stage in New York City.
She’s the star and author of "Ann," a one-woman show that opened on Broadway this month to rave notices for Taylor. I caught up with the play earlier this week, a performance that also happened to be attended by former President Bill Clinton and his wife,...
By Leah Rozen
Holland Taylor's one-woman Broadway show about the feisty Texas Gov. Ann Richards reminds us that life is a solo performance
Living well is the best revenge. But having that life portrayed on stage for all to see and reflect upon is almost as good.
Holland Taylor, probably best known to most of America for playing the wise-cracking mother of Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer on the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" is reliving the exceedingly colorful and eventful life of former Gov. Ann Richards of Texas nightly on stage in New York City.
She’s the star and author of "Ann," a one-woman show that opened on Broadway this month to rave notices for Taylor. I caught up with the play earlier this week, a performance that also happened to be attended by former President Bill Clinton and his wife,...
- 3/23/2013
- by Next Avenue
- Huffington Post
Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" hit theaters on Wednesday and, unlike the ocean freighter shipping its protagonist across the globe, it doesn't sink. In fact, according to TheWrap's Leah Rozen, it "soars." With an admirable 85 percent "fresh" rating on critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Rozen's not alone. Following the adventures of Pi Patel, a 17-year-old Indian boy shipwrecked in the Pacific with only a Bengal tiger for company, the 3D adaptation of Yann Martel's bestselling survival story is being hailed as visually stunning. "Lee has made a film that's marvelously simple and yet...
- 11/21/2012
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
"Special From Next Avenue"
By Leah Rozen
The veteran actor takes on aging, dementia and a droid butler in a new dystopian comedy
Frank Langella isn’t afraid to act his age.
The 74-year-old actor plays a gentleman of advancing years in "Robot & Frank," an endearing new comedy that opened in New York last weekend and will be playing to wider audiences across the country starting Friday. (To see when the film is coming to your town, click here.)
The movie is set in the not very distant future, when robot helpers along the lines of Rosie in "The Jetsons" or R2-D2 in "Star Wars" have become commonplace.
Langella’s character, also named Frank, is a retired cat burglar who spent time in jail and now lives alone in a small town not too far from New York. He keeps himself amused by flirting with the local librarian (Susan Sarandon...
By Leah Rozen
The veteran actor takes on aging, dementia and a droid butler in a new dystopian comedy
Frank Langella isn’t afraid to act his age.
The 74-year-old actor plays a gentleman of advancing years in "Robot & Frank," an endearing new comedy that opened in New York last weekend and will be playing to wider audiences across the country starting Friday. (To see when the film is coming to your town, click here.)
The movie is set in the not very distant future, when robot helpers along the lines of Rosie in "The Jetsons" or R2-D2 in "Star Wars" have become commonplace.
Langella’s character, also named Frank, is a retired cat burglar who spent time in jail and now lives alone in a small town not too far from New York. He keeps himself amused by flirting with the local librarian (Susan Sarandon...
- 8/24/2012
- by Next Avenue
- Huffington Post
"Special From Next Avenue"
By Leah Rozen
Hollywood has long carried an Olympic torch for the Games and their charismatic champions
Before he wore a loincloth as Tarzan and yodeled while swinging across movie screens on a vine, Johnny Weissmuller was an Olympic swimming champ.
The strapping Weissmuller -- 6-foot-5, 190 pounds -- power-splashed his way to five gold medals in the 1924 and ‘28 Olympic Games. Recognizing a marketable hunk when it saw one, Hollywood snapped him up.
"It was like stealing," Weissmuller (1904-1984) once said of his Tarzan career, which included a dozen films between 1932 and ‘48. "There was swimming in it, and I didn't have much to say. How can a guy climb trees, say ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane,’ and make a million?"
I was a sucker for Weismuller’s Tarzan films -- as a kid, I used to watch the scratchy prints that repeatedly aired on Saturday afternoon TV.
In fact,...
By Leah Rozen
Hollywood has long carried an Olympic torch for the Games and their charismatic champions
Before he wore a loincloth as Tarzan and yodeled while swinging across movie screens on a vine, Johnny Weissmuller was an Olympic swimming champ.
The strapping Weissmuller -- 6-foot-5, 190 pounds -- power-splashed his way to five gold medals in the 1924 and ‘28 Olympic Games. Recognizing a marketable hunk when it saw one, Hollywood snapped him up.
"It was like stealing," Weissmuller (1904-1984) once said of his Tarzan career, which included a dozen films between 1932 and ‘48. "There was swimming in it, and I didn't have much to say. How can a guy climb trees, say ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane,’ and make a million?"
I was a sucker for Weismuller’s Tarzan films -- as a kid, I used to watch the scratchy prints that repeatedly aired on Saturday afternoon TV.
In fact,...
- 7/29/2012
- by Kristen Stenerson
- Huffington Post
"Two decades ago everything tasted better when drizzled with the special chocolate sauce of 'postmodernism,' and Twin Peaks was the most ironic cherry pie vehicle for that addictive popular culture had yet baked up," writes Dennis Harvey in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "It was so cool you could hardly believe it was actually being watched." Tonight, the Roxie and MIDNiTES For MANiACS present a "20th Anniversary Celebration for David Lynch's Twin Peaks" that kicks off with Otto Preminger's Laura (1944), the inspiration for Lynch and Mark Frost's series, followed by the pilot and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1922). "Plus, pie on sale all night courtesy of Three Babes Bakeshop!"
How to Be a Retronaut points us to a fine set of photos at Welcome to Twin Peaks: "When Twin Peaks' in-house photographer had quit and no further promotional shots were needed since the show was cancelled,...
How to Be a Retronaut points us to a fine set of photos at Welcome to Twin Peaks: "When Twin Peaks' in-house photographer had quit and no further promotional shots were needed since the show was cancelled,...
- 10/29/2011
- MUBI
"Riding into Manhattan on a wave of Sundance and Cannes huzzahs," writes Nick Schager for the Voice, Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene "attaches itself to damaged Martha (newcomer and sister to the twins Elizabeth Olsen), who flees an upstate New York cult run by John Hawkes's charismatically scruffy wannabe-Jim Jones for her estranged sister Lucy's (Sarah Paulson) Pottery Barn-catalog lakeside rental house, where her transition back into 'normal' society is complicated by traumatic flashbacks to her prior experiences as 'Marcy May' at the commune. Despite sterling performances by Olsen, Hawkes and Paulson, Martha Marcy May Marlene is a tale of psychological fracturing that's frustratingly upfront and blunt about its characters' states of mind as well as its critique of both its rural and bourgeoisie milieus. Durkin's on-the-nose script too often lacks genuine complication."
"As many a magazine feature will soon remind us," writes Andrew Tracy in Cinema Scope,...
"As many a magazine feature will soon remind us," writes Andrew Tracy in Cinema Scope,...
- 10/11/2011
- MUBI
Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
The 5th Quarter: Special Edition (2010)
Synopsis: In February, 2006, young Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high-school team practice. In a severe case of irresponsible and reckless teen-age driving, and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers, the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles-per-hour, spinning off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below. Luke suffered irreparable brain damage, and died in the hospital two days later – just four days before his sixteenth birthday. (highdefdigest.com)
Special Features: Making-of Featurette.
Bereavement (2010)
Synopsis: The horrific account of 6 year old Martin Bristol, abducted from his backyard swing and forced to witness the brutal crimes of a deranged madman. (highdefdigest.com)
Special Features:
Commentary track with director/writer Stevan Mena Behind the scenes featurette Deleted...
The 5th Quarter: Special Edition (2010)
Synopsis: In February, 2006, young Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high-school team practice. In a severe case of irresponsible and reckless teen-age driving, and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers, the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles-per-hour, spinning off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below. Luke suffered irreparable brain damage, and died in the hospital two days later – just four days before his sixteenth birthday. (highdefdigest.com)
Special Features: Making-of Featurette.
Bereavement (2010)
Synopsis: The horrific account of 6 year old Martin Bristol, abducted from his backyard swing and forced to witness the brutal crimes of a deranged madman. (highdefdigest.com)
Special Features:
Commentary track with director/writer Stevan Mena Behind the scenes featurette Deleted...
- 8/29/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the late '50s I was an eighth grader attending school in Bradenton, Florida. On our school bus, the black students had to sit in the back. I didn't understand why and would sit with them. Some of them were friends. In Bradenton the "colored folks" lived in a certain section of the town and had their own churches and celebrations that my first boy friend would take me to on occasion. I never told my parents because they would not have allowed me to go. Also read Leah Rozen's review: Faithful...
- 8/10/2011
- by Carole Mallory
- The Wrap
Leah Rozen has been filing regular dispatches from the Tribeca Film Festival at the Report From Tribeca column, and we have full coverage of TheWrap's TheGrill@Tribeca here. But there's more going on in Lower Manhattan during the festival … so here are a few of the people, films and events attracting attention during the first week of Tff: You Talkin' To Me? Great actor. Tribeca co-founder. Difficult interview. That's the thumbnail sketch of Robert De Niro, who took to the stage of his festival over the weekend not to introduce a film...
- 4/26/2011
- The Wrap
Go to the movies this weekend. Normally, that might sound like a threat, but there are at least two (count ‘em, two) watchable movies opening in theaters. It may not sound like much, but in the current box-office drought, it’s a veritable horn of plenty. “Water for Elephants,” is a romantic melodrama that has no business being better than swill; shockingly, it is anything but. Also read Leah Rozen's review: 'Water for Elephants': Edward Cullen Goes to the Circus With “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” Morgan Spurlock explores the not...
- 4/22/2011
- The Wrap
Get ready for the weekend the box office forgot. With only two new wide releases of note, Nicolas Cage's "The Season of the Witch" and Gwyneth Paltrow's "Country Strong," Hollywood is bracing for a post-holiday hangover. Indeed, the fight for the box-office crown will largely be a repeat of last weekend's battle -- when "True Grit" and "Little Fockers" duked it out. "Fockers" won that round, but according to studio tracking "Grit" has the edge going into this weekend. Both films should net between $15 to $16 million. Read Leah Rozen's review of...
- 1/7/2011
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Leah Rozen in The New York Times, writing about the new British film Made in Dagenham, about women in the late 1960s who struck the Ford plant where they worked, makes a cogent point that hadn’t occurred to me until I read her words, though it’s clearly so head-smackingly obvious that it almost doesn’t need to be said: Hollywood doesn’t make movies about working-class Americans anymore. More: Interviews with a dozen former studio executives, producers, directors, screenwriters and academics confirmed that, while still admired, films focusing on working-class characters like “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” are considered so last century. Even 10 years ago “Erin Brockovich” only got the go-ahead after Julia Roberts signed on to star. ... Today if characters aren’t superheroes, teenage wizards or sexy vampires, they’re architects, lawyers, journalists and other professionals or successful entrepreneurs overseeing chic bakeries or floral shops. Those struggling to...
- 11/22/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
When movies track this big as the seventh "Harry Potter" installment, the upside is hard to predict. But with Warners opening "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" in 4,125 locations -- and on around 12,000 screens -- in the U.S. and Canada Friday, and tracking estimates predicting a three-day opening gross of at least $130 million, no box-office record seems too lofty. What could be up for grabs this weekend: Also see Leah Rozen's review: Why, "Harry Potter," How You've Grown! >> The $30 million midnight-opening mark set by Summit Entertainment's "Twilight...
- 11/19/2010
- The Wrap
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race.
Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” leads the pack vying for British Independent Film Awards this year, scoring eight nominations including Best Film. The nominations, announced this morning, also include multiple nods for “Four Lions” and “Never Let Me Go.”
Danny Boyle’s tremendous “127 Hours” opens this Friday. CinemaBlend has six minutes of footage ahead of the film’s opening.
The N.Y. Times has a two-minute scene with Boyle commentary.
And the L.A. Times explores the rash of faintings at “127 Hours” screenings.
Jeff Wells manages to give both Rachel McAdams and “Morning Glory” more ink by nitpicking the use of the word “blockbuster” in the N.Y. Times. Not sure what that means about the movie. But I do know...
Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race.
Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” leads the pack vying for British Independent Film Awards this year, scoring eight nominations including Best Film. The nominations, announced this morning, also include multiple nods for “Four Lions” and “Never Let Me Go.”
Danny Boyle’s tremendous “127 Hours” opens this Friday. CinemaBlend has six minutes of footage ahead of the film’s opening.
The N.Y. Times has a two-minute scene with Boyle commentary.
And the L.A. Times explores the rash of faintings at “127 Hours” screenings.
Jeff Wells manages to give both Rachel McAdams and “Morning Glory” more ink by nitpicking the use of the word “blockbuster” in the N.Y. Times. Not sure what that means about the movie. But I do know...
- 11/1/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
New York Times: Leah Rozen profiles Rachel McAdams, who plays a hotshot television producer in the upcoming comedy “Morning Glory,” and floats the possibility that it could be “the breakout hit that will do for her what ‘Pretty Woman’ did for Julia Roberts in 1990.” McAdams, who doesn’t work often, tells Rozen, “I try to pick movies that I want to make, that offer a challenge, but that people want to see. Why do all that work if it’s for naught? If you act and nobody sees it, is it still acting?”
Los Angeles Times: John Horn learns why David Seidler, the screenwriter of “The King’s Speech,” was particularly attracted to the story of King George VI’s fight to overcome his stutter. As a child, “Seidler had been evacuated to the United States before the Blitz. The voyage — in which a convoy ship had been sunk by...
Los Angeles Times: John Horn learns why David Seidler, the screenwriter of “The King’s Speech,” was particularly attracted to the story of King George VI’s fight to overcome his stutter. As a child, “Seidler had been evacuated to the United States before the Blitz. The voyage — in which a convoy ship had been sunk by...
- 11/1/2010
- by Mary Skawinski
- Scott Feinberg
Can "Inception" safely dream of Oscar glory?
That's one conundrum that will linger long after average moviegoers have stopped debating the ambiguities of Christopher Nolan's twisty new thrill ride into the subconscious.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to reward Nolan's most recent movie, mega-grossing "The Dark Knight," with a best picture nomination, though it collected eight other nominations. And though the PGA, DGA and WGA all nominated Nolan for that movie, the Academy didn't embrace the hyphenate who, to date, has earned only one Oscar nomination, for his original screenplay for "Memento."
The resulting outcry from "Knight's" fans was so loud it influenced the decision last year to expand the field to 10 nominees, with the Academy's then-president Sid Ganis acknowledging, "I would not be telling you the truth if I said the words 'Dark Knight' did not come up."
An "Inception" best pic nomination would...
That's one conundrum that will linger long after average moviegoers have stopped debating the ambiguities of Christopher Nolan's twisty new thrill ride into the subconscious.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to reward Nolan's most recent movie, mega-grossing "The Dark Knight," with a best picture nomination, though it collected eight other nominations. And though the PGA, DGA and WGA all nominated Nolan for that movie, the Academy didn't embrace the hyphenate who, to date, has earned only one Oscar nomination, for his original screenplay for "Memento."
The resulting outcry from "Knight's" fans was so loud it influenced the decision last year to expand the field to 10 nominees, with the Academy's then-president Sid Ganis acknowledging, "I would not be telling you the truth if I said the words 'Dark Knight' did not come up."
An "Inception" best pic nomination would...
- 7/18/2010
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Leah Rozen
I pity the fool who has to sit through this movie. Oh, wait, that would be me.
“The A-Team” is 117 mind-numbing minutes of massive explosions, car smash-ups and gun battles, with the merest occasional passing whiff of plot, character development or decipherable dialogue. It exemplifies everything that’s wrong with costly summer movies. It’s big, loud and totally pointless. That would be Ok if it was at all entertaining or even cheesy fun...
I pity the fool who has to sit through this movie. Oh, wait, that would be me.
“The A-Team” is 117 mind-numbing minutes of massive explosions, car smash-ups and gun battles, with the merest occasional passing whiff of plot, character development or decipherable dialogue. It exemplifies everything that’s wrong with costly summer movies. It’s big, loud and totally pointless. That would be Ok if it was at all entertaining or even cheesy fun...
- 6/10/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
If it jiggles -- a stomach, that is -- we giggle. Or so Hollywood seems to think, given the long line of chubby men who have reigned as box-office stars in comedies almost since movies began.
The latest double-wide guy: Jonah Hill. A Judd Apatow regular, in recent years he has turned up in supporting roles in “Knocked Up,” “Superbad,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Funny People.” In the raucously funny “Get Him to the Greek,” a contender as this summer’s “The Hangover,” his rotund self steps front and center...
If it jiggles -- a stomach, that is -- we giggle. Or so Hollywood seems to think, given the long line of chubby men who have reigned as box-office stars in comedies almost since movies began.
The latest double-wide guy: Jonah Hill. A Judd Apatow regular, in recent years he has turned up in supporting roles in “Knocked Up,” “Superbad,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Funny People.” In the raucously funny “Get Him to the Greek,” a contender as this summer’s “The Hangover,” his rotund self steps front and center...
- 6/3/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
I am the queen of packing light. I can go to Europe for two weeks taking only a carry-on bag and a purse.
Just saying. Contrast that with the half dozen or more pieces of luggage per person that Carrie Bradshaw and her three BFFs bring along with them on a weeklong jaunt to Abu Dhabi in “Sex and the City 2.” All that luggage -- allowing for seemingly five costume changes per day per character complete with ever higher heels -- is the perfect metaphor for this...
I am the queen of packing light. I can go to Europe for two weeks taking only a carry-on bag and a purse.
Just saying. Contrast that with the half dozen or more pieces of luggage per person that Carrie Bradshaw and her three BFFs bring along with them on a weeklong jaunt to Abu Dhabi in “Sex and the City 2.” All that luggage -- allowing for seemingly five costume changes per day per character complete with ever higher heels -- is the perfect metaphor for this...
- 5/26/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Less is more. But sometimes even less is too much.
Take “MacGruber.”
The lame comedy film derived from a popular recurring sketch on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” is just 88 minutes long. And that’s still 86 minutes too many.
The single joke that has propelled the MacGruber skits -- which began on “SNL” a few years back with Will Forte as the incompetent boob of a title character -- is that, with seconds to go before a bomb is going to explode, the dim bulb gets so involved with whatever personal angst he ...
Less is more. But sometimes even less is too much.
Take “MacGruber.”
The lame comedy film derived from a popular recurring sketch on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” is just 88 minutes long. And that’s still 86 minutes too many.
The single joke that has propelled the MacGruber skits -- which began on “SNL” a few years back with Will Forte as the incompetent boob of a title character -- is that, with seconds to go before a bomb is going to explode, the dim bulb gets so involved with whatever personal angst he ...
- 5/21/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
It’s not a good sign that while watching “Robin Hood,” the title song from Mel Brooks’ 1993 “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” was flitting through my head for much of the time.
The earlier movie’s rousing theme song, done as a production number, included the lyrics, “We're men, we're men in tights/ We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that's right!/ We may look like sissies, but watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights!/ We're men, we're men in tights.” Oh, but that Russell Crowe, the dour Robin Hood o...
It’s not a good sign that while watching “Robin Hood,” the title song from Mel Brooks’ 1993 “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” was flitting through my head for much of the time.
The earlier movie’s rousing theme song, done as a production number, included the lyrics, “We're men, we're men in tights/ We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that's right!/ We may look like sissies, but watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights!/ We're men, we're men in tights.” Oh, but that Russell Crowe, the dour Robin Hood o...
- 5/13/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
The problem with “Iron Man 2” isn't just that it’s a loud, frenzied, clanking heap of rusting metal bits that fails to deliver much of the charm, humor or razzle-dazzle of the original 2008 blockbuster.
It’s that huge chunks of the movie, particularly in the second half, merely serve as a long, teasing set-up for “The Avengers,” due in 2012. No, “The Avengers” is not a movie reboot of the hip, 1960s British TV series ...
The problem with “Iron Man 2” isn't just that it’s a loud, frenzied, clanking heap of rusting metal bits that fails to deliver much of the charm, humor or razzle-dazzle of the original 2008 blockbuster.
It’s that huge chunks of the movie, particularly in the second half, merely serve as a long, teasing set-up for “The Avengers,” due in 2012. No, “The Avengers” is not a movie reboot of the hip, 1960s British TV series ...
- 5/6/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Ahmed Ahmed’s father missed the birth of his eldest son in a hospital near Cairo because he was in line at the American Embassy getting immigration papers. When he finally made it to the hospital, he announced to his wife and the infant Ahmed, “We’re going to America!” A month later, they did.
Flash forward 39 years and Ahmed, now a successful stand-up comic and actor, is posing for pictures with his father and Robert De Niro at the worldwide premiere of Ahmed’s documentary, “Just Like Us,” at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City last Satu...
Ahmed Ahmed’s father missed the birth of his eldest son in a hospital near Cairo because he was in line at the American Embassy getting immigration papers. When he finally made it to the hospital, he announced to his wife and the infant Ahmed, “We’re going to America!” A month later, they did.
Flash forward 39 years and Ahmed, now a successful stand-up comic and actor, is posing for pictures with his father and Robert De Niro at the worldwide premiere of Ahmed’s documentary, “Just Like Us,” at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City last Satu...
- 4/28/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Can a romantic drama from Summit Entertainment about a love triangle involving a young women and two men -- but in which neither man is a vampire nor a wolfman -- cause youthful female fans to swoon?
Summit, which has enjoyed blockbuster success with the supernatural "Twilight" series, is hoping those same fans will turn out for the far less bloody "Letters to Juliet," a romantic comedy that had its worldwide premiere Sunday night at a gala screening ...
Can a romantic drama from Summit Entertainment about a love triangle involving a young women and two men -- but in which neither man is a vampire nor a wolfman -- cause youthful female fans to swoon?
Summit, which has enjoyed blockbuster success with the supernatural "Twilight" series, is hoping those same fans will turn out for the far less bloody "Letters to Juliet," a romantic comedy that had its worldwide premiere Sunday night at a gala screening ...
- 4/26/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Every year it's the same story at the Tribeca Film Festival: the documentaries are amazing, while the narrative features -- at least the ones looking for distribution -- not so much.
At this year's festival, which runs through May 2 in New York City, there are plenty of worthy feature titles, such as "Please Give" and "Get Low." But most of these have screened already at earlier festivals, such as Toronto or Sundance, and have distributors. Their inclusion in Tribeca allows the festival to show quality movies with name casts, and the releasing co...
Every year it's the same story at the Tribeca Film Festival: the documentaries are amazing, while the narrative features -- at least the ones looking for distribution -- not so much.
At this year's festival, which runs through May 2 in New York City, there are plenty of worthy feature titles, such as "Please Give" and "Get Low." But most of these have screened already at earlier festivals, such as Toronto or Sundance, and have distributors. Their inclusion in Tribeca allows the festival to show quality movies with name casts, and the releasing co...
- 4/26/2010
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
If there's an unlikely breakout star in director Alex Gibney's fascinating documentary about the rise and fall of disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer, it's Cecil Suwal (left), who was the 22-year old CEO of the Emperor's Club, the high-priced escort service the politician patronized.
In the still-untitled, unfinished documentary, which had its first showing ever, as a work in progress, Saturday night at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, the doe-eyed...
If there's an unlikely breakout star in director Alex Gibney's fascinating documentary about the rise and fall of disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer, it's Cecil Suwal (left), who was the 22-year old CEO of the Emperor's Club, the high-priced escort service the politician patronized.
In the still-untitled, unfinished documentary, which had its first showing ever, as a work in progress, Saturday night at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, the doe-eyed...
- 4/25/2010
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
The Los Angeles Raiders were a team with an attitude, which is why Ice Cube loves them to this day. The National Football League team may have moved back to Oakland 16 years ago, but as far as the rapper turned movie star is concerned, they still belong in his hometown, L.A.
Cube (at left with the fest's Robert De Niro; Getty Images) pays tribute to the Raider's years as an L.A. team, from 1982 to '94, in "Straight Outta L.A.," a documentary film which ...
The Los Angeles Raiders were a team with an attitude, which is why Ice Cube loves them to this day. The National Football League team may have moved back to Oakland 16 years ago, but as far as the rapper turned movie star is concerned, they still belong in his hometown, L.A.
Cube (at left with the fest's Robert De Niro; Getty Images) pays tribute to the Raider's years as an L.A. team, from 1982 to '94, in "Straight Outta L.A.," a documentary film which ...
- 4/24/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
All that's gold doesn't necessarily glitter. Two past winners of Academy Award golden statuettes, Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, strive mightily but can't save the fatally sentimental, whimsy-drenched "My Own Love Song."
The highly anticipated film -- it's from writer-director Olivier Dahan, who made the successful 2007 Edith Piaf biopic, "La Vie En Rose" -- had its premiere screening Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival and its first press and industry screening Friday.
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All that's gold doesn't necessarily glitter. Two past winners of Academy Award golden statuettes, Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, strive mightily but can't save the fatally sentimental, whimsy-drenched "My Own Love Song."
The highly anticipated film -- it's from writer-director Olivier Dahan, who made the successful 2007 Edith Piaf biopic, "La Vie En Rose" -- had its premiere screening Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival and its first press and industry screening Friday.
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- 4/23/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Yes, Shrek showed up -- all green and in 3D -- to open the ninth Tribeca Film Festival.
But the real highlight was co-founder Robert De Niro's buddy, Martin Scorsese.
The director was featured in a promotional trailer for the fest from sponsor American Express that preceded the screening of "Shrek Forever After." Scorsese was shown picking up photos he’d shot at a nephew’s fifth birthday party. After hastily leafing through them, he dec...
Yes, Shrek showed up -- all green and in 3D -- to open the ninth Tribeca Film Festival.
But the real highlight was co-founder Robert De Niro's buddy, Martin Scorsese.
The director was featured in a promotional trailer for the fest from sponsor American Express that preceded the screening of "Shrek Forever After." Scorsese was shown picking up photos he’d shot at a nephew’s fifth birthday party. After hastily leafing through them, he dec...
- 4/22/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
People Magazine has hired a new film critic to replace Leah Rozen, the mag's critic since 1997 who took a buyout late last year. The gig went to Alynda Wheat, who spent the last six years at Entertainment Weekly. Rosen's exit came at a time when media was lamenting the death of film criticism. While things haven't improved that much -- the big shocker for me was the exit of my former Daily Variety colleague Todd McCarthy -- any fear that People would phase out reviews is dispelled by this hire. I must confess she was not on my reviewer [...]...
- 4/19/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline Hollywood
By Leah Rozen
“Kick-Ass” is the movie last year’s woefully bloated, dullsville “Watchmen” wished it could be.
Both films trade on the powerful sway comic-book superheroes exert culturally on contemporary readers and audiences. These buff crime fighters are the 20th and 21st century successors to Hercules, Achilles and Ulysses. Like those fabled ancient heroes, their appeal lies in the fact that they are human, but at the same time stronger, better and more heroic versions of man. <img alt="" style="margin: 15px; height: 179px; width: 300px; float: left;" src...
“Kick-Ass” is the movie last year’s woefully bloated, dullsville “Watchmen” wished it could be.
Both films trade on the powerful sway comic-book superheroes exert culturally on contemporary readers and audiences. These buff crime fighters are the 20th and 21st century successors to Hercules, Achilles and Ulysses. Like those fabled ancient heroes, their appeal lies in the fact that they are human, but at the same time stronger, better and more heroic versions of man. <img alt="" style="margin: 15px; height: 179px; width: 300px; float: left;" src...
- 4/15/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
What is it about men in skirts? If they’re in full drag and speaking in a fluty falsetto, it’s funny. But if they’re wearing a toga or a leather miniskirt that’s part of Greek- or Roman-era armor, not so much.
Not that Sam Worthington doesn’t boast a fetching pair of gams as the Greek demi-god Perseus in “Clash of the Titans.” Peeking out from beneath his shortie armor, his upper thighs appear muscular, his b...
What is it about men in skirts? If they’re in full drag and speaking in a fluty falsetto, it’s funny. But if they’re wearing a toga or a leather miniskirt that’s part of Greek- or Roman-era armor, not so much.
Not that Sam Worthington doesn’t boast a fetching pair of gams as the Greek demi-god Perseus in “Clash of the Titans.” Peeking out from beneath his shortie armor, his upper thighs appear muscular, his b...
- 4/1/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
When I was a young child and first heard the Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” I relentlessly zeroed in on the spectacle of the king unsuspectingly parading about proudly pantsless --and shirtless, too.
I get the same feeling every time a movie turns on a premise, or tries to pull a plot twist, so patently ludicrous that it is laughable. Why doesn’t everyone else see it? And I’m not just talking about the folks in the audience. Exhibit A: “Chloe,” the risible new marital drama-thriller from Canadian director Atom E...
When I was a young child and first heard the Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” I relentlessly zeroed in on the spectacle of the king unsuspectingly parading about proudly pantsless --and shirtless, too.
I get the same feeling every time a movie turns on a premise, or tries to pull a plot twist, so patently ludicrous that it is laughable. Why doesn’t everyone else see it? And I’m not just talking about the folks in the audience. Exhibit A: “Chloe,” the risible new marital drama-thriller from Canadian director Atom E...
- 3/25/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Early on in “Greenberg,” the titular character, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), jumps into a swimming pool and is barely able to stay afloat with a flailing dog paddle.
It’s a moment of obvious visual symbolism: This guy’s life is going nowhere fast. Greenberg is a character not so much in crisis as in stasis. At 40, he is unmarried, unemployed, stuck in the past and just now recovering from a nervous breakdown. He’s no hero, unl...
Early on in “Greenberg,” the titular character, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), jumps into a swimming pool and is barely able to stay afloat with a flailing dog paddle.
It’s a moment of obvious visual symbolism: This guy’s life is going nowhere fast. Greenberg is a character not so much in crisis as in stasis. At 40, he is unmarried, unemployed, stuck in the past and just now recovering from a nervous breakdown. He’s no hero, unl...
- 3/18/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
A few years from now, when some enterprising film studies student scribbles away at a doctoral dissertation on Iraq War movies, “The Hurt Locker” is likely to be the only bright spot in a sorry roster.
Most movies about America’s involvement in this now eight-year long war are as murky, confused and misguided as the war itself. And now you can add “Green Zone” to the list of misfires.
What’s intriguing, though is how few of the movi...
A few years from now, when some enterprising film studies student scribbles away at a doctoral dissertation on Iraq War movies, “The Hurt Locker” is likely to be the only bright spot in a sorry roster.
Most movies about America’s involvement in this now eight-year long war are as murky, confused and misguided as the war itself. And now you can add “Green Zone” to the list of misfires.
What’s intriguing, though is how few of the movi...
- 3/12/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
My first encounter with “Alice in Wonderland” came when I defaced our family copy of Lewis Carroll’s children's classic as a 3-year-old.
I was just learning to draw stick figures -- the kind with a huge circle for a head and then straight lines extending from it for hands and legs -- and I decorated the first couple pages of “Alice” with my artwork. My mother was not pleased with my creative efforts and lectured me on why we don’t use books as drawing paper. <img src="../../../../../../files/u572/alice_depp.jpg" style="margin: 15px; width: 300px; floa...
My first encounter with “Alice in Wonderland” came when I defaced our family copy of Lewis Carroll’s children's classic as a 3-year-old.
I was just learning to draw stick figures -- the kind with a huge circle for a head and then straight lines extending from it for hands and legs -- and I decorated the first couple pages of “Alice” with my artwork. My mother was not pleased with my creative efforts and lectured me on why we don’t use books as drawing paper. <img src="../../../../../../files/u572/alice_depp.jpg" style="margin: 15px; width: 300px; floa...
- 3/5/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Harry Langdon was a baby-faced comic star whose on-screen persona was that of a guileless man-child. He was, briefly, wildly successful in the 1920s, thanks to several movies directed by Frank Capra, who showcased Langdon’s cherubic simpleton to best advantage.
Following a plotline all too familiar even today, Langdon began to believe his publicity. He parted ways with Capra, turned auteur and began directing his own movies. The result: a succession of turkeys and a quick slide into obscurity. <img src="/files/u572/2010_cop_out_012.jpg" style="margin: 15px; height: 183px; w...
Harry Langdon was a baby-faced comic star whose on-screen persona was that of a guileless man-child. He was, briefly, wildly successful in the 1920s, thanks to several movies directed by Frank Capra, who showcased Langdon’s cherubic simpleton to best advantage.
Following a plotline all too familiar even today, Langdon began to believe his publicity. He parted ways with Capra, turned auteur and began directing his own movies. The result: a succession of turkeys and a quick slide into obscurity. <img src="/files/u572/2010_cop_out_012.jpg" style="margin: 15px; height: 183px; w...
- 2/26/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
It’s tough to make a flat-out romantic movie these days.
How can one believe in true love any more when it is commoditized and packaged nightly in such reality TV trash as “The Bachelor?” And let’s not even contemplate the genuineness of the sentiments that led Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt to exchange rings on “The Hills.”
But, deep down, we all still want desperately to believe that love is real and enduring. This despite our own experiences, the divorce rate and the 10-second hook-ups of “Jersey Shore.” It’s this yearni...
It’s tough to make a flat-out romantic movie these days.
How can one believe in true love any more when it is commoditized and packaged nightly in such reality TV trash as “The Bachelor?” And let’s not even contemplate the genuineness of the sentiments that led Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt to exchange rings on “The Hills.”
But, deep down, we all still want desperately to believe that love is real and enduring. This despite our own experiences, the divorce rate and the 10-second hook-ups of “Jersey Shore.” It’s this yearni...
- 2/4/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
Will there be a Mel-come mat waiting for Mel Gibson at multiplexes this weekend? After an on-screen absence of seven years, the 54-year-old star returns to the front of the camera in “Edge of Darkness.”
This suspense thriller, set in Boston, lurches uneasily between Mel-odramatic, Mel-omaniacal and Mel-ancholy. It’s a Mel-ange, which only serves to underscore how much Gibson has always been the most Mel-anistically dark of action heroes.
In “Da...
Will there be a Mel-come mat waiting for Mel Gibson at multiplexes this weekend? After an on-screen absence of seven years, the 54-year-old star returns to the front of the camera in “Edge of Darkness.”
This suspense thriller, set in Boston, lurches uneasily between Mel-odramatic, Mel-omaniacal and Mel-ancholy. It’s a Mel-ange, which only serves to underscore how much Gibson has always been the most Mel-anistically dark of action heroes.
In “Da...
- 1/29/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
No one can do grumpy like Harrison Ford. (Note to Warner Bros.: Time to reboot the “Grumpy Old Men” franchise, this time with Ford and Nick Nolte?) The actor is at his ingratiatingly grumpiest in “Extraordinary Measures,” in which he plays a dedicated scientist trying to find a cure for a rare fatal disease.
His may be a supporting part here -- a sizable one, but it’s not his character who drives the story. But he is the reason this medical drama is opening in megaplexes. If it weren’t for Ford stomping around a medical research lab clad in worn blue ...
No one can do grumpy like Harrison Ford. (Note to Warner Bros.: Time to reboot the “Grumpy Old Men” franchise, this time with Ford and Nick Nolte?) The actor is at his ingratiatingly grumpiest in “Extraordinary Measures,” in which he plays a dedicated scientist trying to find a cure for a rare fatal disease.
His may be a supporting part here -- a sizable one, but it’s not his character who drives the story. But he is the reason this medical drama is opening in megaplexes. If it weren’t for Ford stomping around a medical research lab clad in worn blue ...
- 1/21/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Leah Rozen
You gotta have faith to end up an enthusiastic fan of “The Book of Eli” -- and even then it might be tough.
I’m talking about real, believe-in-the-Bible, God-smights-those-who-would-subvert-His-message kind of faith. That’s because the entire plot of this post-apocalyptic action thriller starring Denzel Washington turns on who has possession of a copy of the Good Book. Yes, the McGuffin here is a St. James Bible, the one used by Christians worldwide.
“Eli” is set 30 years after some huge final war, which has left the earth a scorched wastela...
You gotta have faith to end up an enthusiastic fan of “The Book of Eli” -- and even then it might be tough.
I’m talking about real, believe-in-the-Bible, God-smights-those-who-would-subvert-His-message kind of faith. That’s because the entire plot of this post-apocalyptic action thriller starring Denzel Washington turns on who has possession of a copy of the Good Book. Yes, the McGuffin here is a St. James Bible, the one used by Christians worldwide.
“Eli” is set 30 years after some huge final war, which has left the earth a scorched wastela...
- 1/15/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Based on reviews, fans of the critically acclaimed book will be disappointed in director Peter Jackson's movie version.
"This was never going to be an easy story to film. Using the same characters and many events, Jackson and his team tell a fundamentally different story. It's one that is not without its tension, humor and compelling details. But it's also a simpler, more button-pushing tale that misses the joy and heartbreak of the original."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
"It's all a gorgeous error, a bonfire of overreach..."
— Kyle Smith, New York Post
"It all looks lovely, yes, but there's little meat on these bones."
— Luke Y. Thompson, E!
"...a gallon-sized candy-colored margarita, but it contains only a thimbleful of actual tequila."
— Leah Rozen, People
"...appalling..."
— J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Next Showing:
The Lovely Bones - Trailer
Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, and Susan Sarandon star
Link | Posted 1/14/2010 by reelz
Peter Jackson...
"This was never going to be an easy story to film. Using the same characters and many events, Jackson and his team tell a fundamentally different story. It's one that is not without its tension, humor and compelling details. But it's also a simpler, more button-pushing tale that misses the joy and heartbreak of the original."
— Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
"It's all a gorgeous error, a bonfire of overreach..."
— Kyle Smith, New York Post
"It all looks lovely, yes, but there's little meat on these bones."
— Luke Y. Thompson, E!
"...a gallon-sized candy-colored margarita, but it contains only a thimbleful of actual tequila."
— Leah Rozen, People
"...appalling..."
— J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Next Showing:
The Lovely Bones - Trailer
Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, and Susan Sarandon star
Link | Posted 1/14/2010 by reelz
Peter Jackson...
- 1/14/2010
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
By Leah Rozen
All male heroes in teen sex comedies, whether it’s a dopey movie or a smart one, are driven by a single ruling imperative: to get laid. And so it is with Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), the bright and hyper-verbal protagonist in "Youth in Revolt," an appealing little comedy from talented director Michael Arteta ("The Good Girl" and "Chuck & Buck").
If "Youth" were only about sex and Nick’s desire to sco...
All male heroes in teen sex comedies, whether it’s a dopey movie or a smart one, are driven by a single ruling imperative: to get laid. And so it is with Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), the bright and hyper-verbal protagonist in "Youth in Revolt," an appealing little comedy from talented director Michael Arteta ("The Good Girl" and "Chuck & Buck").
If "Youth" were only about sex and Nick’s desire to sco...
- 1/8/2010
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
Chicago – The Blu-Ray Round Up is back with two HD music releases, a beloved holiday movie from a director with a new comedy on the horizon (Richard Curtis, “Pirate Radio”), and a release that’s a must-own for fans of one of the most popular shows of the ’00s. This informative column is designed to let you know synopsis, technical specs, and features for titles that may have slipped under your radar. Pick your favorite.
“Nickelback: Live at Sturgis 2009” and “Rob Thomas: Something To Be Tour Live At Red Rocks” were released on October 13th, 2009.
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” was released on October 27th, 2009.
“Love Actually” was released on November 3rd, 2009.
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan”
Photo credit: Universal
Synopsis: “The Cylons began as humanity’s robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when...
“Nickelback: Live at Sturgis 2009” and “Rob Thomas: Something To Be Tour Live At Red Rocks” were released on October 13th, 2009.
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” was released on October 27th, 2009.
“Love Actually” was released on November 3rd, 2009.
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan”
Photo credit: Universal
Synopsis: “The Cylons began as humanity’s robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when...
- 11/5/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Michael Jackson's This Is It begins its two-week run in theaters around the world Wednesday, and People's movie and music critics were among the first to see it. Here's their take on what may be the late King of Pop's final offering to his fans: People Movie Critic Leah Rozen: To see Michael Jackson in rehearsal in Michael Jackson's This Is It is to appreciate the hours of hard work and dedication behind his artistry. But anyone hoping for an up-close-and-personal glimpse of the man behind the man in the mirror will be disappointed. When Jackson, 50, died on June...
- 10/28/2009
- by Leah Rozen and Chuck Arnold
- PEOPLE.com
Michael Jackson's This Is It begins its two-week run in theaters around the world Wednesday, and People's movie and music critics were among the first to see it. Here's their take on what may be the late King of Pop's final offering to his fans: People Movie Critic Leah Rozen: To see Michael Jackson in rehearsal in Michael Jackson's This Is It is to appreciate the hours of hard work and dedication behind his artistry. But anyone hoping for an up-close-and-personal glimpse of the man behind the man in the mirror will be disappointed. When Jackson, 50, died on June...
- 10/28/2009
- by Leah Rozen and Chuck Arnold
- PEOPLE.com
Michael Jackson's This Is It begins its two-week run in theaters around the world Wednesday, and People's movie and music critics were among the first to see it. Here's their take on what may be the late King of Pop's final offering to his fans: People Movie Critic Leah Rozen: To see Michael Jackson in rehearsal in Michael Jackson's This Is It is to appreciate the hours of hard work and dedication behind his artistry. But anyone hoping for an up-close-and-personal glimpse of the man behind the man in the mirror will be disappointed. When Jackson, 50, died on June...
- 10/28/2009
- by Leah Rozen and Chuck Arnold
- PEOPLE.com
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