“Avatar” is taking the CGI to a new level, and in IMAX 3-D, it’s an incredible movie-going experience, even if the plot does make you uncomfortable.
James Cameron, the director of “Titanic,” penned this one several years ago, waiting for the technology to catch up to his vision. The difficulty is that as technology developed, international politics changed as well.
“The Hurt Locker” is the movie you’d rather not watch starring the people you hardly know, dealing with a subject matter you’d prefer to avoid: the awful war in Iraq.
The Pulitzer-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy is now faithfully converted to the big screen. The problem is, it’s just as successful as the book in being really depressing.
This film started out as a novel, then converted to a screenplay. But it has a gritty, raw, realistic feel to it that is way beyond “once upon a time.”
“A Christmas Carol” is a high-quality animated re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic novella. But it’s not for kids. Jim Carrey’s prodigious voice talents and the masterful direction of Robert Zemeckis combine to make this version memorable, disquieting, and even scary. But it’s too intense for small children, and the older ones may tire of the lengthy “hellfire and damnation” sermon followed by a very short summation of the repentance and restoration. It’s really preaching to the adults.
Those of us who enjoy music of any kind, and have even a basic acquaintance with American pop music over the last couple of generations, cannot help but be familiar with Michael Jackson.
You want to like this movie. Mira Nair’s direction hearkens to an earlier, gentler era of moviemaking, where the characters look like they just walked out of wardrobe and makeup, and their language is articulate and refined, not plebian or habitually coarse.
Michael Moore is at it again. He’s taking his 60-Minutes-style exposé and this time turning his camera on the corporate giants (Citibank, etc.) who got us in a financial crisis and took the billions of government bailout to finance executive bonuses. Or so Mr. Moore would have us believe.
“Fame” is the kind of musical that just begs to be re-made. The premise, back in 1980, was to showcase some of the most talented high school students from the New York Academy of Performing Arts, and that movie launched the career of Irene Cara, as well as spawning a television show that lasted several seasons.
