Movie Review: Brooklyn’s Finest

LITTLE ROCK — A crowded cast of some of the finest actors in the cinema act the hell out of a gimmicky, episodic, hit or-miss script in Brooklyn’s Finest, Antoine Fuqua’s latest attempt to relive the glories of Training Day. Read More »

By ROGER MOORE ORLANDO (FLA.) SENTINEL posted March 5, 2010 at 3:22 a.m.

Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland

LITTLE ROCK — In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice has grown - not by “drink me” potion or “eat me” cake - into a 19-year-old. Read More »

By JAKE COYLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS posted March 5, 2010 at 3:20 a.m.

The Crazies, Cop Out open strong

LOS ANGELES — Shutter Island easily topped the boxoffice chart last weekend, selling a studio-estimated $22.6 million worth of tickets in the United States and Canada from Friday through Sunday. Read More »

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE PRESS SERVICES posted March 5, 2010 at 3:09 a.m.

ON FILM Feeding Oscar

Arkansas cinephiles play the Academy Awards guessing game

LITTLE ROCK — We understand that the Academy Awards have nothing to do with honoring art. Hollywood is a factory town and these awards are the sincerest form of Babbittry; there is nothing magical about these preternaturally pretty people in dinner jackets and gowns. Read More »

By Philip Martin posted March 5, 2010 at 3:08 a.m.

FILM CLIPS

LITTLE ROCK — At area theaters 85 AVATAR, PG-13 A former Marine confined to a wheelchair becomes a half-human, half Na’vi “avatar” and tries to help save a civilization on a distant world against corporate interests who want to strip-mine the place for valuable ore. Read More »

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette posted March 5, 2010 at 3:07 a.m.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

LITTLE ROCK — (opening dates are tentative) The Green Zone, R Matt Damon plays an Army officer who joins forces with a senior CIA official to unearth evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but discovers an elaborate cover-up instead. Read More »

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette posted March 5, 2010 at 3:06 a.m.

Home movies

LITTLE ROCK — Recent DVD releases: 2012 (PG-13, 138 minutes) — Loud and preposterous, blusteringly vacant and at times ruthlessly entertaining, 2012 is the sort of inevitable exploding movie that frustrates description: It’s sort of an Airplane/Scary Moviestyle satire pastiche of disaster movies (specifically Irwin Allen disaster movies such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno), backed down just enough that it could be received as a straight scifi actioner. Read More »

By Philip Martin posted March 5, 2010 at 3:05 a.m.

Screen gems

LITTLE ROCK — Have an old VHS workout tape lying around that you’ve forgotten to donate to Goodwill? The folks at the Found Footage Film Fest might be interested in adding it to their ever-growing collection of bizarre or hilarious old videocassette tapes. And if you’re a video masochist like myself, you might be interested in taking a peek at the videos they’ve already amassed. Read More »

By LEVI AGEE SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE posted March 5, 2010 at 3:01 a.m.

Movie Review: Cop Out

LITTLE ROCK — “It’s not stealing,” protests New York police Detective Paul Hodges as he readies for his “performance” interrogating a suspect. “It’s called homage.” Since he’s played by comic Tracy Morgan (TV’s 30 Rock), homage is mispronounced. Read More »

By ROGER MOORE ORLANDO (FLA.) SENTINEL posted February 26, 2010 at 3:59 a.m.

Movie Review: The Last Station

Film recounts War and Peace author’s dramatic flight from life and loved ones.

LITTLE ROCK — In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 28, 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy - not only the most famous man in Russia but a kind of secular saint - slipped from his country estate, dressed in peasant clothes and accompanied only by his doctor. He left behind a note to Sofya, his wife and literary collaborator of 48 years (the woman who had borne him 13 children and copied out his masterwork War and Peace seven times over) that basically told her to not come looking for him, as he wanted to die in peace. Read More »

By Philip Martin posted February 26, 2010 at 3:58 a.m.

ON FILM: Masterpiece or arty B film, both viewpoints are honest

LITTLE ROCK — The other day someone forwarded me a link to a review of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island that proclaimed it “the best movie of the year.” And I thought, well, OK, it’s only February, he’s got a point; Shutter Island may very well be the best movie of the year so far. Read More »

By Philip Martin posted February 26, 2010 at 3:56 a.m.

Screen gems

LITTLE ROCK — Probably the biggest local movie news since I took over this column is the production of The Last Ride — about country singer Hank Williams — now shooting in central Arkansas. News outlets have reported that some filming took place in Benton and Saline County last week. Read More »

By LEVI AGEE SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE posted February 26, 2010 at 3:55 a.m.

FILM CLIPS

LITTLE ROCK — At area theaters 75 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL, PG David Seville’s chipmunk wards Alvin, Simon and Theodore return in the sequel to sing in three-part harmony, along with the Chipmunks’ female counterparts, the Chipettes. Read More »

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette posted February 26, 2010 at 3:55 a.m.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

LITTLE ROCK — (opening dates are tentative) Alice in Wonderland, PG Tim Burton’s twist on the Lewis Carroll classic, with Mia Wasikowska in the role of a now-19-year-old Alice, returning to the whimsical world she first encountered as a youngster. Read More »

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette posted February 26, 2010 at 3:54 a.m.

Scary romp Shutter Island No. 1

LOS ANGELES — Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s voyage to Shutter Island has landed them at No. 1 at the weekend box office. Read More »

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS posted February 26, 2010 at 3:53 a.m.