Movies

Behold! The worst films of 2011

Buying a ticket to “The Green Hornet” was like punching your wallet in the face.

So many bad movies, so little space. This year’s collection of stinkers proves Adam Sandler can be counted on to make at least one monumentally bad film, not all comic book movies are good, and there are times when there’s nothing funny about a ...

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Holiday gifts for film buffs

“Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation.”(Abrams Books, $50) Pamela Glintenkamp’s photo-laden coffee-table tome offers an exhaustive survey of the visual effects produced by the house that George Lucas built — and that’s responsible for some of the most ...

74 days ago
MOVIES

‘Arthur Christmas’ has heart in right place

A corporate-style monolith corners the market on holiday retail, cruelly displacing its outmoded workforce and crassly insisting that any individuals that fall through the cracks are part of the cost of doing business.

81 days ago
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Williams and Branagh make ‘Marilyn’ worth it

Michelle Williams doesn’t so much impersonate Marilyn Monroe as suggest her in the entertaining bio-drama “My Week With Marilyn.” She doesn’t have Monroe’s overripe figure, or Kewpie doll lips. There’s va-va without the voom.

81 days ago
MOVIES

Muppets’ return is a triumph (mostly)

More than ever, we need a world in which a pig can be romantically linked to a frog. A world in which no one finds it odd that Jason Segel’s little brother is a puppet, and they share a room with twin beds as well as a taste for pastel leisure suits.

81 days ago
MOVIES

New DVD releases: ‘Super 8,’ ‘Conan’

“Super 8” (118 minutes): In “Super 8,” J.J. Abrams’ love letter to the Steven Spielberg films that inspired him as a kid, a chubby would-be director named Charles (Riley Griffiths) is shooting his own zombie movie, and he has recruited his adolescent friends as...

81 days ago
MOVIES

‘Like Crazy’ a real (tedious) look at romance

Falling in love is easy. Relationships, like math, are hard.

81 days ago
MOVIES

Scorsese shows his mastery of film with ‘Hugo’

Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” is a children’s film for grownup film buffs.

81 days ago
MOVIES

Payne returns with deft, complex ‘Descendants’

In the Oscar-buzzed film “The Descendants,” Alexander Payne turns his “Sideways” eye on Kaui Hart Hemmings’ novel about family dysfunction in Hawaii. It’s a heartfelt character study of people trapped on the horns of an uncommon — but not unheard-of...

81 days ago
MOVIES

10 hot holiday films from tinsel to trouble

The odd thing about this holiday movie season is it actually includes some holiday movies.

88 days ago
ENTERTAINMENT

Powder riding with Warren Miller at annual film tour

Heading into its 62nd year, there’s no getting around the fact that the annual Warren Miller winter sports film tour is going downhill fast. As always, right? This year’s gravity-defying flick, “... Like There’s No Tomorrow,” gives chase to fearless, sky-scraping...

88 days ago