It’s a dead zone at the movies this week. Hollywood’s annual exorcism film, The Devil Inside, is the only real new movie release. Like we said, a dead zone.
Starting this week, we’ll be trolling Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant …
Movies
The Best DVD of the Year: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinema
A quarter-century after the French director began it, his grand film essay on movies is finally available in America
Training the Horses in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse
War Horse is the story of the unbreakable bond between a young man and his horse. But it’s set during one of the darkest, most violent periods in human history: World War I. Joey the horse charges in battle, pulls cannons up a …
The Cure for the Ailing Movie Business Is To … Raise Ticket Prices?
Last year was a bad one for the movie business, with the fewest tickets sold since 1995and revenues that dropped 4.5% from the previous year. Analysts foresee a better year ahead in 2012, and what is it that’s expected to turn …
In Praise of Film Critic J. Hoberman
It’s the end of an era for alt-weekly The Village Voice—and the perfect moment to celebrate a great career.
Watch This Wordy Margin Call Scene Reduced to Lots of Uncomfortable Silences
Margin Call is one of last year’s more surprising little successes. A film about a single night at a Wall Street investment firm when the masters of that little universe discover that their business is about to implode, the …
20 Movies We’re Looking Forward to in 2012 (and 10 We’re Definitely Not)
Why Wild Animals and Hollywood Don’t Mix
MacBooks and iPhones—The Real Stars of Mission: Impossible and Dragon Tattoo
I used this past holiday weekend the way the lord intended it to be used — as a time to catch up on some new movies. One I made sure to see was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher’s remake of the Swedish film version …
The Deadening Familiarity of the 2011 Box Office
Sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, comic book movie, reboot, comic book movie. Those are the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2011.
The Five Ways To Know You’re Watching a Spielberg Movie
Between War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin and the Christmas/New Year’s Jaws marathons on Spike, there’s a decent chance you saw something directed by Steven Spielberg over these past few holiday weekends. And like any director …
Mish Imp 4 Gives Hollywood a Happy New Year’s (Weekend)
Tom Terrific helps spur the box office to a 3% boost over same time, last year
A Separation: How about an Oscar for This Fascinating Iranian Drama?
Director Asghar Farhadi shows how, even in the nicest families, things can go horribly wrong