The hardships and heartache of the American Civil War, cushioned in the plushness of the production: the crane-happy camera, the spendthrift special effects, the "painterly" washes of color and "dynamic" compositions, the visual poetry and bombast, the chiselled and sanded faces of the A-list romantic leads, Nicole Kidman (with her …
Coldplay previews their upcoming new album.
Coldplay filmed this date of their Music Of The Spheres World Tour concert during the sold out, ten night run at Buenos Aires’ River Plate stadium at the end of last year.
Coldplay will broadcast a live performance from Buenos Aires’ River Plate Stadium, which will be shown in thousands of cinemas across more than 70 countries. The show will see the band perform classic hits from across their career in a stadium bursting with lights, lasers, fireworks, and LED wristbands intended …
It’s early in the year, so that means it’s time for another Liam Neeson outing in which a lucky co-star will be kidnapped and/or killed in order to set in motion the perennial revenge formula. This time it’s a son who barely survives the credits before his snowplow-driving dad (Neeson) …
Off the same wall as Being John Malkovich. Paul Giamatti, being Paul Giamatti, is feeling the burden of his soul in the course of rehearsals for a stage production of Uncle Vanya, unable to locate the requisite lightness of touch. At the suggestion of his agent, the dyspeptic actor tries …
Longman Leung and Sunny Luk direct this sequel to the 2012 Hong Kong action hit. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Dustin Hoffman said it in Stranger than Fiction: if you’re in a tragedy, you die; if you’re in a comedy, you get married. Viewers will have to decide for themselves exactly what sort of story they are getting from director and co-writer Pawel Pawlikowski’s handsome, gorgeous, heartbreaking, heart-thumping romance. Handsome: …
There is chat about Sherlock Holmes and vapors of Hitchcock, but Aaron Katz’s quirky mystery is mostly a hip, atmospheric slummer on the underside of wet, gray Portland, Oregon. The weather conspires with the shaggy plot to work up some soft, amiable tensions that will either tickle or bore you. …
Once again, Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, the writing/directing team that brought us The Last of Robin Hood, find delight in giving audiences a biographical glimpse into the lives of a publicly scandalous pair — in this case, ghostwriter, androgynous fashion plate, and all-around feminist icon Colette (Keira Knightley) and …
Director Michael Mann situates Tom Cruise under a silver-fox hair dye in the back seat of a taxi cab crowned by an ad for Bacardi Silver. That matching-color fashion statement says a lot about this sleek, cool, preening, glamorous thriller in the Mann-ly manner (Thief, Manhunter, Heat, not to forget …
The passage of two years after his 6-year-old daughter’s death finds grieving advertising exec Will Smith addressing letters to Love, Time, and Death. Reasoning that two years is adequate time to suffer, his callous co-workers and purported BFFs (Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, and Michael Pena) employ a private investigator to …
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a fearless firefighter ("All right, guys. Heads up. Let's do it") whose wife and son get blown up by a South American terrorist: code name, El Lobo. Conviction -- political, emotional, or otherwise -- is not something you need waste any time looking for. Calculation is everywhere. …
Brilliant in his studies and dismissive of athletics, Ronald (Buster Keaton) finishes high school at the top of his class. But in college his uptight attitude doesn't win him any points with his sports-loving classmates, and pretty coed Mary (Anne Cornwall) ignores him in favor of brutish jock Jeff (Harold …