Kansas City Star: Movies
- Yellow Handkerchief' star William Hurt is never at a loss for words
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMPHILADELPHIA - "I was thrilled to be able to play a guy of few words who says a lot, and who figures out a lot," says William Hurt. "And who at the same time has an authentic moment-to-moment, scene-to-scene series of discoveries that are given to him by an unlikely source."
More | Talk - What's opening in theaters next week
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMHOT TUBE TIME MACHINE (R): Four guys (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robins and Clark Duke) vacationing in a ski resort are magically teleported back in time to 1986 ...
More | Talk - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMLisbeth Salander, thin as a knife, is 24 but at times looks 14, with hair "as short as a fuse" and a penchant for applying heavy makeup "in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind."
More | Talk - Theater owners say thanks to hitmaker Bruckheimer
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 08:10 AMLike most people who receive lifetime-achievement awards, Jerry Bruckheimer wants everyone to know he's not finished yet.
More | Talk - Repo Men'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMWith its radiantly ugly visuals, mean-spirited worldview and gut-wrenching levels of gore, "Repo Men" is about as entertaining as a burst appendix.
More | Talk - Private drama plagues Oscar winner Sandra Bullock
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 01:40 AMSandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was repeatedly anointed as Hollywood royalty this year, sweeping awards season and capping it off with an Oscar for her role as a devoted mom in "The Blind Side."
More | Talk - Butler's Top Five
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 11:15 PM<strong><span class="subhead">BUTLER’S TOP FIVE</span></strong> The top five movies now showing, according to Star movie editor Robert W. Butler:
More | Talk - Greenberg'
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMNoah Baumbach's favorite terrain is deconstructing life's emotional ups and downs with characters so narcissistic and self-delusional they make everyone on screen and off as uncomfortable as possible. With "Greenberg," the writer-director who came to prominence with 2005's "The Squid and the Whale" has reached new highs or new lows, depending on your point of view.
More | Talk - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMEveryone has secrets in the "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," a mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect.
More | Talk - War movies are hell at the box office
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMHollywood does lots of stupid things.
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- Icahn launches hostile bid for Lions Gate
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 09:45 AMActivist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his battle with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Friday, launching an all-out bid to take over the company.
More | Talk - How to Train Your Dragon' filmmakers had a baptism of fire
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMLOS ANGELES - Animated movies can take forever to make - three or four years is well within the ordinary. "How to Train Your Dragon," which tells the story of a scrawny kid destined to prove his hecklers wrong through an unusual relationship with a dragon, moved at a radically different pace:
More | Talk - Demi Moore's Twitter account part of suicide help
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 08:40 AMActress Demi (DEM'-ee) Moore is apparently part of an online chain of posts that warned Florida authorities that a young man might be trying to commit suicide.
More | Talk - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMFeminist heroine or hypocrisy in black leather? There's an interesting debate regarding "the girl" at the center of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the film version of the internationally popular novel - the first of three published, posthumously, after the death of journalist and crime novelist Stieg Larsson - which was destined for the screen, since nothing speaks the universal language of money more clearly than serial killings.
More | Talk - Diary of a Wimpy Kid'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMAs many previous articles have established, Your Friendly Neighborhood Movie Reviewer is no big fan of children's movies. I generally rank them by asking myself, "How many limbs would I hack off to escape this movie's clutches?"
More | Talk - ‘Oh, My God' starts off faith film series at the Tivoli
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 11:15 PM<strong><span class="subhead">Talk about God</span></strong> The fifth season of the Open Circle Spiritual Cinema Series kicks off this weekend with “Oh My God,” which examines ideas of God through various religions and cultures.
More | Talk - Free films, special screenings March 19-25
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 11:15 PMFREE FILMS <strong>“9” </strong>Rag doll awakens in a wasteland. Noon Saturday, Plaza Library.
More | Talk - Gabourey Sidibe's talent, not size, is what matters
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMThe first time I saw Gabourey Sidibe, I couldn't believe how big she was.
More | Talk - Neil Young Trunk Show'
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMVirtually from the beginning of a career that's closing in on the half-century mark, Neil Young has been both an obsessive archivist and a passionate believer in the nexus of rock music and film.
More | Talk - Polanski lawyers seek inquiry into misconduct
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 06:05 PMRoman Polanski's attorneys have filed an appeal asking that a special counsel investigate alleged judicial misconduct in the director's 32-year-old sex case.
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- Director Demme can't get enough of that Neil Young
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMPHILADELPHIA - Along with an Academy Award-winning career directing dramatic films - he won for "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) - Jonathan Demme has a nice little sideline making music movies.
More | Talk - Argentina's got an Oscar Secret'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - It was well past midnight here, but spontaneous celebration broke out when word came from Hollywood that Argentina's Oscar entry, "The Secret in Their Eyes," had snared the award for best foreign language film of 2009.
More | Talk - Fish Tank'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMThe most honored British film of 2010 is Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank," and rightly so. The Cannes Jury Prize winner is an intimate look at teen alienation and first love in an English tenement.
More | Talk - The Runaways'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMThe devil has all the best lines in "The Runaways." The film gives us a whiff of sulfurous mid-'70s show-biz sleaze as it charts the rapid rise and swift implosion of L.A.'s first all-girl rock 'n' roll band.
More | Talk - The Runaways'
Friday - 03/19/2010 - 04:00 AMRock music rarely fares well at the multiplex.
More | Talk - Movie Mom | ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' ‘The Bounty Hunter'
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 11:15 PMInformation for parents deciding which movies are best for kids ages 2 to 18: <strong><span class="subhead">‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’</span></strong>
More | Talk - 3-D ‘Smurfs' take over for ‘Avatar,' Jennifer Aniston has title trouble
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 11:15 PM<strong><span class="subhead">The week’s top performances</span></strong> Critic Robert W. Butler likes: the German cast and crew of <strong>“North Face,”</strong> a gritty mountain climbing adventure that puts us on the face of the towering Eiger and convinces us we can feel the icy wind blowing.
More | Talk - Alice in Wonderland' is expected to hold onto top box-office spot
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AM"Alice in Wonderland" doesn't have to worry this weekend about getting taken down by a bounty hunter, repo man or wimpy kid.
More | Talk - Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart enjoyed playing rebels in The Runaways'
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 04:00 AMThe 1970s all-girl quintet the Runaways inspired conflicting emotions. Some revered the teenaged pop-punk band as feminist trailblazers, rocking electric guitars and raunchy lyrics while most female musicians were trilling love songs.
More | Talk - ‘The Bounty Hunter': It goes through the motions but comes up empty | 2 stars
Thursday - 03/18/2010 - 02:15 PMThe Bounty Hunter” is as bland as unsalted room-temperature meat loaf. In fact, director Andy Tennant is so familiar with this ground from his previous efforts (“Fool’s Gold,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Switch”) that he seems absolutely content to recycle from them and similar formulaic films.
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