THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY *** When 20th Century Fox debuted the revolutionary widescreen process CinemaScope with 1953’s The Robe – thereby allowing the medium to successfully distinguish itself from […]
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Sets appeal
In these cash-strapped times, the point of these so-called holiday gift guides is often to showcase quality items offered at low prices, thus allowing consumers to blanket friends and family […]
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‘The Sessions’
THE SESSIONS **1/2 The 1996 Oscar-winning documentary Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien is a compelling look at the acclaimed writer who, having contracted polio as a […]
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‘Killing Them Softly,’ ‘Rise of the Guardians’
KILLING THEM SOFTLY *1/2 Writer-director Andrew Dominick, whose epic Western The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford made my 10 Best list for 2007, stumbles badly with […]
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Reviewed: ‘Anna Karenina’
ANNA KARENINA *** The decision by director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard to add experimental artifice to their screen version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina will strike open-minded viewers […]
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Reviewed: ‘Life of Pi’
LIFE OF PI ***1/2 It was Rod Serling, at the start of each episode of The Twilight Zone, who promised to whisk viewers to “a dimension not only of sight […]
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Reviewed: ‘Lincoln’
LINCOLN **1/2 Moviegoers purchasing tickets to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will be forgiven for feeling as if they’re stepping into a wax museum rather than a theater auditorium. Spielberg, who has […]
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‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2’
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2 ** The votes have been tallied, and the ass-whipping that Mitt Romney suffered on Election Day has allowed Stephenie Meyer to reclaim […]
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Reviewed: ‘Skyfall’
SKYFALL ***1/2 Any list of the 10 best James Bond films would have to include 2006’s Casino Royale and the latest installment, Skyfall. That’s a pretty impressive batting average for […]
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Reviewed: ‘Cloud Atlas’
CLOUD ATLAS ***1/2 Forget, for a moment, the financial crisis of 2008. More so than the banks at the center of that calamity, Cloud Atlas is truly something that’s “too […]
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Reviewed: ‘Wreck-it Ralph’
WRECK-IT RALPH *** There’s no better way to milk ’80s nostalgia than to drag a long-forgotten performer from the era back in front of the movie camera for a cameo […]
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Savannah Film Festival Schedule (week 2)
Wednesday, Oct. 31 The Amazing Spider-Man (3D). 9 a.m., Trustees Theater. Followed by a Q&A with Stan Lee. Panel: Long Story Short: The Challenges of Short Filmmaking, 9:30 a.m., Gutstein […]