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Hugo

December 26th, 2011
Hugo is Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) a boy who lives within the walls and clock tower mechanics of the Paris train station during the golden age of steam in 1930’s France.  He was the ward of drunken Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone) since his father (Jude Law) died.  Before abandoning Hugo, Uncle Clause taught him his trade as keeper of the station clocks - a job Hugo continued in his uncle’s abs ...

New Year's Eve

December 26th, 2011
New Year’s Eve features lots of pretty faces in pretty unlikely circumstances – I mean come on, with a potential audience of a billion people worldwide there’s no contingency plan for every conceivable mechanical hitch that might plague the storied ball that drops at midnight on New Year’s Eve in Time Square? Yet it happens here and the fix falls on the shoulders of Claire Morgan (Hilary Swan ...

The Adventures of Tin Tin

December 26th, 2011
The Adventures of Tin Tin sees the classic Hergé outrageously cowlicked comic book character animated once again. The long running series ran for nearly 60 years prior to 1986 but here concentrates on the offerings from 1944 to 1945. The look not only displays the principals as artistically authentic but it also beautifully captures that European era (save for NAZI occupation) while staying t ...

Young Adults

December 25th, 2011
Young Adults refers to a genre of fiction whose target audience is its moniker - can you say Twilight?  Ironically Elizabeth Reaser, one of the lesser stars of that blockbuster franchise (where she’s Esme Cullen) is Beth Slade here, a principal character although not as the protagonist but very much so as the antagonist. The person she's antagonizing is Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) because Be ...

War Horse

December 25th, 2011
War Horse, through stunning visuals and a lot of manufactured emotion follows the military exploits of an English stallion into the war to end all wars. Fold in 1914 the colt is such a beauty he enchants Ted Narracott (Peter Mullan), an agrarian tenant, to literally bet the farm he works with wife Rose (Emily Watson) on this horse rather than purchase a sturdier stud.  His son Albert (Jeremy ...

Immortals

December 23rd, 2011
Immortals is filmed in 3D with all the intensity and ripped abdomens of 300. King Hyperion didn’t get much papyrus several centuries BC but here the terrible Titan is played with much relish by Mickey Rourke. He’s bent on revenge against the Olympians which he plans to get by declaring war on humanity. Problem is he needs the mighty Epirus Bow in order to release the rest of the Titans that Z ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

December 21st, 2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is based on the first voluminous volume of the posthumously popular Millennium trilogy by Sweden’s Stieg Larsson. The last of the subtitled “Girl” films had barely left theatres when this English version hit the horizon so series fanatic might have expected to at least see the angular beauty of Noomi Rapace reprise the inked-up role of Lisbeth Salander. However ...
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