Rating: 3 out of 5 starsGenre: Mystery, Thriller, Foreign
Run Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes, Rated R Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner Based on the play "The Boy in the Last Row" by Juan Mayorga Written & Directed by Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Potiche) As thrillers go, In the House (opening today) isn't all that thrilling. But it does take a mind-bending premise and weaves a pretty compelling story that should keep the audience in its seat - although maybe not on the edge of it - for the duration.
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Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes, Rated R Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Phyllis Somerville, Jacki Weaver Written by Wentworth Miller Directed by Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Thirst) Wentworth Miller is an actor best known for his role as Michael Scofield on the cancelled Fox TV series, Prison Break. With Stoker, Miller branches out as a writer, having penned the screenplay to this dark and somewhat disturbing thriller. Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Run Time: 2 hours 52 minutes, Rated R Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Keith David, James D’Arcy, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Based on the book by David Mitchell Directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run, The International), Andy & Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) It’s epic, ambitious and one of the most impressively entertaining films of the year. It is also bound to divide critics and audiences alike, as it has already been lauded by some to be among the best films of the year while simultaneously being panned by others as one of the biggest flops of all time. I am here to tell you that I categorize Cloud Atlas on the side of brilliance. I can also tell you that I sympathize and understand most of the criticism that this film will face, though I vehemently stand by Cloud Atlas as one of my favorite films of 2012. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Opens locally Friday, February 10th, 2012 Run Time: 1 hour 55 minutes, Rated R Starring: Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard Directed by Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money, Outside Love) Man is Denzel good at being bad. It is training day all over again for Denzel Washington, whose student this time around is Ryan Reynolds. In Safe House, Reynolds plays CIA operative Matt Weston, who is known as a “housekeeper” – a person who runs and operates a CIA safe house where high-profile prisoners are kept out of sight. Denzel is Tobin Frost, a notorious baddie who is an ex-CIA operative turned traitor, most recently on the run for selling important government intel to terrorists for profit. Weston is a rookie agent who hasn’t seen field action, who was given the safe house duty because he wasn’t trusted with anything else. With Frost in his posssession, his safe house is attacked, and he flees with Frost in his custody. The race begins to see if he can deliver Frost to the US government before they are both killed by pursuing assailants. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Opens locally Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 (Special select 7PM showings Tuesday, 12/20) Run Time: 2 hours 38 minutes, Rated R Starring: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright Directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club, Seven) It’s not too often that we see a remake of film that was just released 2 years ago, but that’s exactly what we get with David Fincher’s version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The original was a 2009 film adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by the late Stieg Larsson, but because it was a foreign language film (in Swedish, re: inaccessible to mainstream movie-goers), it begged to be re-made with a Hollywood budget. When it was announced that Fincher was on-board as director, it quickly became one of the hottest and most anticipated movie franchises around (it is part one of the Millennium Trilogy). So, does the new version live up to the hype? |
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