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His elocution teacher worked …
Director Zack Snyder’s limp stab at girl-power fantasia wusses out on divine delirium
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen have amiable fun skewering sci-fi clichés, but Paul never quite lives up to their talents
This remake of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre hits the jackpot with Mia Wasikowska
What with the jittering camera aesthetic, clunky script, and creaky clichés, Battle Los Angeles won’t live long in the memory
Back then they were called bosoms. Jane Russell had some, and Howard Hughes knew what to do with them. Russell’s breasts — not actors Walter Huston and Thomas Mitchell — were the stars of Hughes’s 1943 western The Outlaw. …
George Nolfi’s up-and-down movie, The Adjustment Bureau, sees two lovers who fight the system to forge their own destiny together after they determine the random occurrences in life aren’t so random
There were precious few surprises at the 83rd Oscars on the night the Academy tried to appeal to a younger demographic. But a movie set in the 1930s was the big winner
After cooling down from the nonstop thrills of the Oscar broadcast, watch last night’s very special episode of Big Love and join us at the reception.
The vast majority of people on TV—whether on a dramatic series or sitcom, a reality show or a political talk show—are encouraged, indeed obliged to express themselves in the starkest, …
“Blame It on the Alcohol,” last night’s breezy, sharply written episode of Glee, takes an Afterschool Special topic and spikes it with wry. Cued by Principal Higgins’s insistence that the Glee Club should commemorate Alcohol Awareness Week with an appropriate number performed at a general assembly, the kids choose “Tick Tock” by Ke$ha …
Big Love is anomaly among HBO shows, in that it avoids the obligatory nudity and rarely utters a curse stronger than “G.D.” With these self-imposed restrictions, the series has to find subtler ways of providing its shocks. Sunday’s episode, “D.I.V.O.R.C.E.,” boasted two jolts—mouth-to-mouth scandals that touched on the series’ …
Unknown, Liam Neeson’s standard-issue conspiracy thriller, hopes to be mistaken for a Jason Bourne film — or, better yet, a sequel to Neeson’s 2009 hit Taken
The derivative, gag-filled take on Romeo and Juliet set among warring gnomes in neighboring backyards fails to bloom