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**1/2 Crooked Arrows What “Cool Runnings” did for bobsledding and “Mighty Ducks” for youth hockey, “Crooked Arrows” should do for lacrosse. A half-Native American former lacrosse star (Brandon Routh) returns to the reservation to help expand a casino. To get tribal approval, he agrees to coach the reservation’s struggling high school lacrosse team. Much of it was filmed around Boston. The action sequences don’t disappoint, and the story transcends the uplifting sports-underdog formula. (100 min., PG-13) (Loren King)
In a year of darkness and hope, the movies struggled to keep up. Things fell apart, the economic center didn't hold, the man least expected to win the presidency at the start of the year created a narrative of historical inevitability that just grew and grew and grew. The most engrossing drama I witnessed in 2008 may have been at ...
It would have been tough for the movies to top reality in 2008. Where this year was actually momentous, exciting, and strange, the movies often settled for being merely solemn - which was neither enlightening nor entertaining. The super-successful "The Dark Knight" was solemn, but it was also fun, something increasingly, distressingly absent from the year-end movie-going season. If a ...
**** Polisse There are movies that grab you by the throat and knee you in the groin. And there are movies that grab your throat, knee your groin, drive you to the hospital, help fill out the police report, and ask you to dinner. This is that latter movie, an electrifying emotional thriller about an endangered child-protection unit in the Paris police department. Directed and co-written by Maïwenn, who costars. In French, with English subtitles. (127 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris)
Two brothers in southern Japan, forced to live apart since their parents’ split, hatch a plot to meet up and make a wish.
*** Where Do We Go Now? How can women ever get men to stop killing each other? Director, co-writer, costar Nadine Labaki (“Caramel”) envisions a dusty Lebanese village where the women, Christian and Muslim alike, join forces to foil their husbands’ bloodymindedness. It’s “Lysistrata” in the desert, overly diffuse but full of heart, laughter, and sorrow. In Arabic, Russian, and English, with subtitles. (110 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
**1/2 Men in Black 3 About as good as one could hope for from an unnecessary sequel that’s a decade late to the party. Alien-containment Agent J (Will Smith) time-travels to 1969 to rescue partner K. For all the millions of dollars spent on digital astonishments, the most uncanny special effect is Josh Brolin as the young Tommy Lee Jones. (106 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
** Mighty Fine A well-to-do but down-to-earth Jewish couple, the Fines, move to New Orleans from Brooklyn with their two teenage daughters in 1974. Writer-director Debbie Goodstein-Rosenfeld can’t decide whether her feature debut is domestic drama, fish-out-of-water story, or coming-of-age tale. Chazz Palminteri, as the husband, is the best thing in the movie. Andie MacDowell (with a “Sophie’s Choice” accent, no less) is jaw-droppingly miscast as the mother. (79 min., R) (Mark Feeney)
***1/2 The Story of Film: An Odyssey This 2011 eight-part documentary made for British television takes in 14 decades, six continents (sorry, Antarctica), and one art form. Like that art form, it’s wildly ambitious, often extremely good, occasionally maddening, and always stimulating. Writer-director Mark Cousins’s unifying conception is cinematic innovation — or as he pronounces it in his Ulster accent (he narrates, too), “en-iv-ay-shun.” (916 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney)
*** What to Expect When You’re Expecting It’s all in the delivery. The movie turns the best-selling pregnancy guide of the title into one of those glib all-star comedy-dramas with multiple story lines and predictable dilemmas, but the writing is sharp and the performances bright, and there are laughs to be had for those who’ve been there. (110 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
**1/2 Bernie Jack Black dials back the boorishness to play Bernie Tiede, a real-life Texas funeral director and community pillar who in 1996 shot his aged companion (Shirley MacLaine) in the back. Richard Linklater directs it as a loopy black comedy with generous input from local “witnesses” -- the movie’s bouncy, amusing, and wholly lacking in a point. With Matthew McConaughey. (104 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
**1/2 Darling Companion A movie for women who love their dogs too much. The first film in nine years from director Lawrence Kasdan (“The Big Chill”) is an overwritten and underplotted vanity project, but Diane Keaton is a joy as a well-to-do surgeon’s wife whose frustrations boil over when her beloved mutt goes missing. With Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, and Richard Jenkins. (103 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
**1/2 The Dictator The despot here is a tall, fit, flamboyantly bearded North African goofball (Sacha Baron Cohen) who winds up working in a Brooklyn food co-op. That’s the best idea in the movie, which lacks the cultural tension in “Borat” and “Bruno,” satires that Cohen and the director Larry Charles previously made together. This one is lazy, a satire that can’t bring itself to properly satirize anything. (88 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
** Mansome Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary is so late in noticing a shift in American male grooming that for a documentary on the subject to work Spurlock would either have to pitch it to our grandparents or trace a cultural shift and unpack it. This seems like the outcome of a director seeing his first Details magazine and sensing apocalypse. (82 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)
*1/2 Battleship If you’re going to make a movie based on a board game, you’ve got to fill two hours with something. So why not go the “Transformers” route? Taylor Kitsch (“John Carter”) plays a ne’er-do-well who joins the Navy just in time to fight an alien armada that lands off Hawaii. If only there were more genuine rah-rah fun, instead of seen-it-all-before mayhem. (131 min., PG-13) (Tom Russo)
*** Dark Shadows Tim Burton has got his groove back. This big-screen revamp of the much-loved (if ridiculous) late-’60s Gothic soap opera is both sendup and homage, and it recaptures the show’s doomy vibe with blissful comic precision. Johnny Depp is great fun as Barnabas Collins, an 18th-century vampire having trouble adjusting to the polyester 1970s. With Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green. (113 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
If you like “Marvel’s The Avengers” (there’s almost nothing to dislike; it’s as close as a movie can come to the fantastical reality of a good comic book), stick around for the closing credits. By this point, your grandfather knows to stick around for the scrap of preview awaiting the last disclaimers and thank-yous (the scrap is called an Easter egg). “The Avengers” puts the egg before most of the credits -- it just feels like the natural end of the movie.
The superhero saga "The Avengers" lived up to its blockbuster buzz with $178.4 million in overseas ticket sales days before it opens in U.S. theaters.
Janet Jackson may have joined the ranks of diet plan celebrity spokeswomen Jennifer Hudson and Mariah Carrey, but she insists there's absolutely no competition among the slimmed-down singers.
Hugs, kisses, a massage and a vampire bite - stars were desperate to sell to the highest bidder at the amfAR Gala at the Cap D'Antibes.
Sony's debuting "Men in Black 3," starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin, is expected to vaporize "The Avengers'" nearly month-long supremacy at the top of the domestic box office charts, grossing about $80 million across the long holiday weekend.
I'm just going to put it out there: I stole the idea for this week's Five Most list. It's not even borrowing. It's just flat-out theft.
Viola Davis addressed graduating seniors Thursday at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up, urging them to treasure "hard times and joyous moments" and telling them that the "privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
Viola Davis addressed graduating seniors Thursday at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up, urging them to treasure "hard times and joyous moments" and telling them that the "privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
Josh Brolin thought he was just being goofy when he launched into a Tommy Lee Jones impersonation on a night out with the Coen brothers and their pal Barry Sonnenfeld. Turns out, Brolin was on an audition of sorts.
Kylie Minogue dazzled in Dolce & Gabbana gold on the Cannes red carpet. There was one problem -- she didn't have any pockets.
There's definitely an Indian vibe at Cannes this year - something Sonam Kapoor is proud of.
As the credits rolled on the first Cannes Film Festival screening of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' new film, someone in the audience shouted out "Viva Bunuel!"
Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy. Since he last collaborated with Andrew Dominik, he's starred in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading," David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," and Bennett Miller's "Moneyball."
Zac Efron felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role "The Paperboy" -- and he says that's the way he wanted it.
Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy. Since he last collaborated with Andrew Dominik, he's starred in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading," David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," and Bennett Miller's "Moneyball."
Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does.
Just a month before its June release in the U.S., Paramount Pictures delayed the debut of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" by nine months after another movie based on a Hasbro plaything was trounced at the box office by "The Avengers."
Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend -- TV reality star Kim Kardashian -- in Cannes, the only place for anyone famous to be this week.
Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend -- TV reality star Kim Kardashian -- in Cannes, the only place for anyone famous to be this week.
Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does.
The family of a woman left with brain damage after an accident during the filming of "Transformers 3" has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Paramount Pictures.
Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71.
G.I. Joe won't be going into action on the big-screen this summer, after all. The Hollywood Reporter says Paramount Pictures yanked its sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" from its June 29 release date and rescheduled the movie for March 29 next year.
An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam.
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker. Surely, life lessons will be learned by all and an unlikely friendship will form across racial and socioeconomic lines and we'll all feel good about ourselves walking out of the theater ...
Garbage, "Not Your Kind of People" (Stunvolume Records) For a band that's been around for almost two decades, Garbage has released surprisingly few studio albums. Their fifth, "Not Your Kind of People," comes on the heels of a seven-year hiatus, which makes it all the more anticipated.
Berenice Marlohe, the newest Bond girl, has been making the red carpet at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival look like a day at the beach.
Thousands march for peace in Mexico TENS of thousands of people have marched in Mexico's second most populous city, angry at the inability of authorities to end a crime wave.
(heraldsun world)
Fake Android apps scam cost users £28,000 Malicious Android apps posed as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope in a scam that used premium rate text messages to defraud customers of £27,850.
(telegraph technology)
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches The creature lived in floodplains on what is now Greenland during a period known geologically as the Devonian period - about 360 to 410 million years ago.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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