There’s a big cineplex a few blocks away from lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Should Margin Call open there this weekend, the Occupy Wall Street protesters might consider marching over for a reminder of what it is they’re …
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Paranormal Activity 3: Three’s a Shroud
The third in the haunted-house thriller series meets the standard set by the original: less gore, more scare
A Wonka Box Set and a NY Times Documentary
“Sooner or later,” the Canadian media baron Moses Znaimer said decades ago, “everything is on TV.” Now it’s all on DVD. Or do I mean Blu-ray? And how soon before discs will be as antediluvian as videotape and all media …
Dawn of the ‘UltraViolet’ DVD: Will the Cloud Doom Cinema?
While you were busy last week debating Walt’s moral break on Breaking Bad, or preparing for the return of The Walking Dead, Hollywood was ushering in the beginning of a brave new era.
London Film Festival: Seth Rogen And Will Reiser Crack Wise
The star and writer of 50/50 discuss their cancer comedy in front of a London audience.
‘Real Steel’ Kicks ‘Footloose,’ Leaves ‘The Thing’ for Dead
For against-the-odds inspiration, it wasn’t as thrilling as the saga of 52-year-old Dewey Bozella, the boxer who spent half his life in prison on a trumped-up murder charge and, after being exonerated, won a unanimous decision …
Texas Killing Fields: Drenched in the Stench of Death
Avatar’s Sam Worthington and every film’s Jessica Chastain star in a creepily atmospheric true-crime thriller
The Skin I Live In: Almodóvar’s Human Centipede
The great Spanish filmmaker casts Antonio Banderas as a mad-love surgeon, in a surgical thriller designed to make your flesh crawl
Footloose: A Remake That’s Hokey But Heartfelt
Hokey but heartfelt, this remake of the old musical preaches that teens can dance their way out of the Recession
The Big Year: Not Just for the Birds
Big stars Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black go small and score in an unexpectedly sweet comedy.
Box Office Battle of the Hunks: Jackman KO’s Clooney
This weekend, Hugh Jackman needed a boxing robot to help Real Steel win the box office battle, while George Clooney’s political drama The Ides of March came in second
Real Steel Review: Babes in Mad Max Land
Despite the presence of Hugh Jackman, this futurist drama gets mired in ‘bot-dom, which leads to boredom
The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney
The crinkly liberal icon stars with Ryan Gosling in a savory, skeptical drama about political dreams and how to shatter them