Opening Movies

77% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Featuring a star turn from Robin Wright Penn and a stellar supporting cast, this transcends your average chick-flick despite its slender script.

Review: Blind Side, The

eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

'Sandra Bullock Hates Your Sass'

Review: Broken Embraces

eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

'Pedro Almodovar Settles In'

Review: Twilight Saga, The: New Moon

eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

'No Hardwicke Means Better Movie'

• The Twilight Saga: New Moon - The Dreamin' Demon

Feature: DVD Reviews For 11/20: Hopefully Someone Will Give A Damn.

eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

by Peter SobczynskiYes, I am fully aware of the fact that I promised that things would be back to normal with the column this week. However, a series of personal and professional disasters so grim that they would make even the guy from “A Serious Man” say “Oy” have ensured that this would not be the case. In the meantime, take a look at what this week has to offer and hopefully...

Cousins

Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Talented music video director Garth Jennings (who also made the film Son of Rambow) turns his camera on Vampire Weekend, for the band’s new video. It’s for their single “Cousins,” the first new track from the group’s upcoming sophomore LP. Catchy song, inventive video: Vampire Weekend |MTV Music

Review: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

'Would that all our home movies were this interesting.'

Orphanage loses director

JoBlo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

I was never a huge fan of the idea to remake Juan Antonio Bayona's THE ORPHANAGE. But with Guillermo del Toro co-writing and producing the remake, I was hopeful it wouldn't lose much of the beauty that was the original film. In August, Larry Fassenden signed on to direct the film and the search for a female lead to star in the film began. And that's also, apparently, where things ended. Our sister...

Zack Snyder's Guardians of Ga'hoole Rounds Up a Full Cast

FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

It's been quite awhile since we heard about Zack Snyder's forthcoming adaptation of the children's book series Guardians of Ga'hoole. After the project was announced in early 2008, there was some minor casting news way back at the beginning of this year, but development has been pretty mute since then. Now THR's Heat Vision adds a whole bunch of new cast members who will lend their voice to the 3D...

Chris Columbus, protector of children.

The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Some directors are automatic punchlines, their names synonyms for lousy. There's Adam Sandler cohort Steve Brill ("Without A Paddle," "Drillbit Taylor"), Eddie Murphy's favorite Brian Robbins ("Norbit," "Meet Dave") and of course Shawn Levy ("A Night At The Museum," "The Pink Panther," "Cheaper By The Dozen"), who pays the bills...

Courage - Leonidas and the 300 Spartans

Healing Philosophy (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

The story of the Battle of Thermopylae (literally ‘the hot gates’) is a classic tale of courage. It has recently been dramatized and brought to the wider attention of a modern audience in Zack Snyder’s film ‘300’ based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller. While it is obvious that the film (and the novel) is highly stylized, any film that strives to bring to life the great...

88% Red Cliff

Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Featuring some impressively grand battlefield action, John Woo returns to Asia and returns to form in the process for this lavish and slick historical epic.

82% Broken Embraces

Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Pedro Almodovar's fourth film with Penélope Cruz isn't his finest work, but he brings his signature visual brilliance to this noirish tale, and the cast turns in some first-class performances.

Exclusive: John Woo Battles It Out with Red Cliff

ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

By the early '90s, director John Woo had firmly established himself as one of the top directors in Hong Kong before coming to Hollywood and doing the same with a number of action blockbusters. In the back of his mind, he had wanted to make a movie based on the legendary 208 AD Battle of Red Cliff in which an alliance between two Southern Chinese warlords organized by the warrior Zhou Yu (Tony Leung)...

The Decade in Film: the 2000s

Tativille (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

The past ten years have not been the strongest internationally in the history of the art form. Certainly, as with the previous, vaunted decade-and-a-half, wherein notably Iran and the new cinemas of the Chinese world emerged, vital and compelling art has come from unexpected places: in the present decade, Argentina, Germany, Romania and Southeast Asia have all developed into new epicenters of the medium....