Though this year’s slate of summer movies looks promising, it’s hard to find a real bright spot among the dark, foreboding fare about to land in theaters. This will be a dangerous summer at the movies. Here are early takes on seven films everyone will be talking about.
Folks turned off by Terrence Malick’s life-death-and-the-cosmos treatise Tree of Life and looking for a rural, low-country Southern rendition of look no further than
For a comic book movie billed as an all-star showcase of jacked-up, tech-savvy action heroes there is a curious lack of fight sequences in director Joss Whedon’s The Avengers.
See the word “spy” and one immediately thinks of James Bond, of snipers and fistfights, car chases and femme fatales.
TED Talks convey a simple, but infinitely malleable concept: Ideas worth spreading.
Things I learned from Contagion: 1) Don’t eat peanuts out of the bowl at the airport bar, and 2) Never, ever, ever, ever, ever take a picture with the chef.
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Though this year’s slate of summer movies looks promising, it’s hard to find a real bright spot among the dark, foreboding fare about to land in theaters.
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Catching up the hard way with my former film professor
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Though this year’s slate of summer movies looks promising, it’s hard to find a real bright spot among the dark, foreboding fare about to land in theaters.
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For the cost of a two-bedroom, two-bath home in south Baton Rouge, 29-year-old Drake Doremus made 2011’s indie sensation, a largely improvised star-crossed drama called Like Crazy.
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When 93 innocents at a youth camp on Norway’s Utoeya Island were slaughtered last summer by a deranged gunman, the tragedy peeled off the seemingly placid surface of a Scandinavian world whose dark side had been largely overlooked.
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Lars Von Trier's new film is a moody, trippy masterpiece
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Today there are many strands of thought on just how the human brain evolved.
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