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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘Age of the Hobbits’
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “Age of the Hobbits” A classic example of a tick hitching a ride on the back of a big dog, “Age of the Hobbits” (due out on DVD Tuesday) has...
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Blu-ray review: ‘Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection’ (Blu-ray)
“Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection” contains five of the greatest hits, several near misses and a couple of outright flops from the Master of Suspense — 15 films in all. But the scariest...
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Movie review: ‘Hitchcock’ presents a juicy slice of the master’s life
Anthony Hopkins It’s called “Hitchcock,” but director Sasha Gervasi’s droll and surprisingly cheerful insider Hollywood biopic might just as well have been titled “Alma Reville.” Of course, every...
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‘Hitchcock’ director, cast note their favorite Hitch films
NEW YORK – Alfred Hitchcock is such a towering figure in movies that there’s not a serious cinema lover who doesn’t have a favorite film among his impressive body of work, which ranges from the silent...
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In ‘Hitchcock,’ Mirren paints cool portrait of the woman behind the man
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – Even 32 years after his death the name Alfred Hitchcock casts a long shadow in the world of film. And well hidden in that shadow was a tiny, fiercely intelligent woman named...
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Movie review: ‘The Hobbit’s’ unexpected journey off to a halting start
Martin Freeman The proper title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 illustrated children’s book is “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.” But in the first installment of Peter Jackson’s thunderously busy and...
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After hesitation, Jackson relishes being at ‘The Hobbit’s’ helm
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – After more than a decade of total immersion in the dense environs of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth that produced three monumental movies in “The Lord of the Rings” cycle and...
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Under the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘The Bowery Boys: Volume One’
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “The Bowery Boys: Volume One” In early incarnations they were called The Dead End Kids or The East Side Kids or the Little Tough Guys, but...
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‘Sunset Boulevard’ undergoes repairs
BY GENE TRIPLETT Andrea Kalas and her crew have been doing some repair work on “Sunset Boulevard.” The classic Billy Wilder film, that is, not the actual Los Angeles street. This vintage cinematic...
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Gandalf conjures up tempestuous defense for ‘Hobbit’ director
NEW YORK – Some of the rougher reviews of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” take director Peter Jackson to task for turning J.R.R. Tolkien’s rather slight children’s story into a groaning,...
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Under the Radar DVDs: 2012’s oddest of the odd
Each week sees literally scores of new releases on DVD. Big-bucks advertising and studio clout propel sales of the most high-profile DVDs. But the oddball releases that fly under the radar are often...
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DVD reviews: ‘Django’ Double Features … Unofficial, unintentionally funny...
Ever since Sergio Corbucci took his cue from Sergio Leone and became the second most successful director of “spaghetti” Westerns with 1966′s “Django,” the title character has followed a long and...
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‘Django’ gives Oklahoma actor Rex Linn a small role in big movie
BY GENE TRIPLETT When the deadly smoke of script rewrites and cutting room machinery clears away, Oklahoma actor Rex Linn may have all of five minutes left in Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx. Quentin...
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Movie review: ‘Django Unchained’– Tarantino’s spaghetti Western a bloody...
It’s easy to see that Quentin Tarantino loves to play cowboys and Indians — make that cowboys and slavers in his case — and that’s what makes “Django Unchained” so much Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx. fun...
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DVD review: ‘Low & Clear’
On its lovely, rugged surface, the dramatic documentary “Low & Clear” seems like a roustabout buddy movie with fly fishing at its center. But in the tradition of the greatest of all fly-fishing...
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High Frame Rate projection gives ‘Hobbit’ a hyper-realistic look
NEW YORK – “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is the first wide-release, major-studio film to be shot and projected at 48 frames per second, twice as fast as the traditional standard of 24 frames. The...
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Movie review: ‘The Impossible’ a powerful recreation of family’s tsunami ordeal
Naomi Watts, Tom Holland One moment it’s paradise on Earth for comfortable British couple Maria and Henry Bennett (Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor ) and their three young sons at a Thailand resort, and...
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Movie review: ‘Promised Land’ reminiscent of Frank Capra films
Matt Damon reteams with his “Good Will Hunting” director Gus Van Sant for “Promised Land,” a movie that tackles a tough energy-vs.-environment issue but winds up becoming an Matt Damon, John Krasinski...
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Tulsan’s documentary to be screened at Siskel Film Center
CHICAGO – “Bill’s Thud,” a personal documentary by Tulsan Clark Wiens to honor Vietnam War veterans, will be screened Sunday and Monday (Jan. 6-7) at the Gene Siskel Film Center as part of the...
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Naomi Watts succeeds playing ‘Impossible’ role
BY GENE TRIPLETT BEVERLY HILLS — After nearly two hours of watching her made up as a muddied, bloodied, bruised and broken woman struggling to survive the aftermath of a horrific Naomi Watts, Tom...
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