 2012 Columbia Pictures. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Comedy, Action
Run Time: 1 hour 49 minutes, Rated R Starring: Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Ice Cube, Chris Parnell, Rob Riggle, Dave Franco Co-Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) 21 Jump Street was a popular cult TV show that ran on Fox from 1987 to 1991. The Jump Street unit was an undercover division of the police department that was comprised of officers that looked young enough to pass as high school or college kids. The show successfully appealed to a younger audience, and often taught moral lessons dealing with drugs, alcoholism, AIDS, and other topical issues. It gave rise to Johnny Depp, who became a teen heartthrob as Officer Tom Hanson.
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 2012, Oscilloscope Pictures. Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hours 51 minutes, Rated R Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, Rock Duer Directed and co-written by Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher) We Need to Talk About Kevin is a psychological thriller that will haunt you well after you view it. The premise is quite simple, and must rank up there as the most horrific of scenarios for any mother: What if your child was born to simply hate you? Not everybody else, just you. Meet Kevin.  2012, The Weinstein Company. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Run Time: 2 hours 2 minutes, Rated R Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain Directed by Ralph Fiennes (directorial debut) Coriolanus is the rare Shakespearean film adaptation that doesn't star Kenneth Branagh. Directed by Lord Voldemort himself, it is a tale of triumph, revenge, and betrayal, and one of the best Shakespearean films in recent memory.  2012 Millennium Entertainment. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 43 minutes, Rated R Starring: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Ben Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Ned Beatty, Steve Buscemi, Ice Cube Directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger) Nobody plays scumbag quite as effectively as Woody Harrelson. In Rampart, he plays a monstrous one. He is Los Angeles Police Department Officer Dave Brown, a miserable, hard-nosed, villainous figure, scary because we know that he probably represented real LAPD officers in the past.  2012 Walt Disney Pictures. Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Run Time: 2 hours 12 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Dominic West, Ciaran Hinds, James Purefoy, William Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Bryan Cranston, Samantha Morton Directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E) In Disney's John Carter, you will see what looks to be a bevy of rip-offs from movies like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Avatar, The Matrix, Stargate, Star Trek, Gladiator, Spaceballs, and many more. Interestingly, John Carter doesn't rip them off at all, if you consider that the source material was written well before any of these films were even contemplated - 1912 to be exact. This film marks the characters first film appearance, 100 years after first appearing in print, created by the legendary Edgar Rice Burroughs, who is best known for having created Tarzan.  2012 Open Road Films. Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Horror, Suspense
Run Time: 1 hour 26 minutes, Rated R Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens Directed by Chris Kentis (Open Water) and Laura Lau (feature film debut) In honor of Silent House, a horror movie that is supposedly filmed as 1 continuous 86 minute shot, I was going to offer up my review as one long run-on sentence. But that would be a gimmick. That is all that Silent House is, one long, befuddling gimmick. Elizabeth Olsen, who was terrific in last year’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is the star of this throw-away horror flick. She has one role to play in this one: Be scared, and stay scared.  2012 Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions. Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Romance, Comedy
Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes, Rated R Starring: Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox, Edward Burns Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (directorial debut) Spoiler Alert: This article reveals some plot spoilers. Friends with Kids is like a chocolate-covered fossilized terd. Sure, it looks yummy and interesting, but once you break through and discover what it's made of, you find out that it is full of crap. Let me explain. Friends With Kids tries to be a progressive story about a man and a woman who happen to be platonic best friends. Not wanting to follow in all of their married friends' footsteps, where children seemed to have ruined everything, they agree to have a kid together, and date other people. It is a social experiment that seems to suggest that the whole concept of marriage and parenthood can only lead to pain and suffering.  Rating: 5 out of 5 starsAndrew Lloyd Webber has created a new masterpiece to follow up his classic, timeless 1986 musical, The Phantom of the Opera. Only trouble is, this sequel, Love Never Dies, is only in theaters for one more night, Wednesday, March 7th.
If you are not familiar with NCM Fathom Events, you should look into it. Single-handedly, they are opening the minds of movie-goers across the country, informing us that our local movie theaters hold much more potential than simply watching movies. They host a a wide array of in-theater events, bringing famous stage plays to the movie screen, operas, concerts, and events of all kinds.  Universal Pictures, 2012. 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Animation, Family
Opens locally on Friday, March 2nd, 2012 Run Time: 1 hour, 26 minutes, Rated PG Starring (voices of): Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White Directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me) and Kyle Balda (feature film debut) This new film is of course a 3D-animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ 1971 book, The Lorax. Like much of the famed author’s work, The Lorax was imaginative, colorful, and written in the style of his other popular books like The Cat in the Hat, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! And like much of his work, this book had a deeper political meaning infused underneath the seemingly childish façade. |
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