Film & TV

At Hailsham academy, Kathy (Mulligan), Ruth (Knightley) and Tommy (Garfield) live in a world of Orwellian euphemisms — they are “special” children predestined to make “donations” until “completion.” While not as subtle as Kazuo Ishiguro’s masterful novel, Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Never Let Me Go gradually reveals the grim fate that awaits these students, offering clues.
September 23, 2010 at 4:27 am

At midnight, Hedwig, the world’s most famous snow owl, invited us to tea at her ostentatious owlery at the top of the Tower of London.
September 23, 2010 at 4:23 am

As we transition from summer excess to academic studiouness, Hollywood too is laying down its machine guns in favor of more intellectual fare.
September 16, 2010 at 2:45 am

This is not the screwing around crew Ben Affleck’s first feature, Gone Baby Gone, was an intimate drama about detectives searching for a missing girl.
September 16, 2010 at 2:43 am

We're back in high school again Easy A, the newest movie about high school, wants to be both a commentary on John Hughes-directed ‘80s films and itself a Hughes-directed movie.
September 16, 2010 at 2:40 am

Anyone who saw either of the Tomb Raiders might be inclined to think Angelina Jolie + action movie = awful monstrosity.
August 4, 2010 at 10:18 pm

The biggest surprise about The Kids are All Right, popularly billed as “that movie about the lesbian moms” is that it ends up being so much more than just that.
August 4, 2010 at 10:03 pm

When we think of devotion, we immediately conjure up religious bowing and scraping or I-can’t live-without-you love stories.
July 28, 2010 at 10:48 pm

If you’re looking for something to make Summer 2010 last just a bit longer, Father of My Children (suprisingly not a story about baby daddies) will make you feel some excruciatingly long moments.
July 21, 2010 at 9:18 pm

When Swedish author Stieg Larsson finished the manuscripts for the Millennium Trilogy, he probably never expected that his books would become a must-read sensation around the world.
July 14, 2010 at 10:39 pm

Explosions and Computer Graphics Imagery can be a lot of fun. That’s why they comprise the majority of the summer blockbuster.
July 7, 2010 at 9:30 pm

It’s easy to forget that, in 1995, it was Toy Story that profoundly changed the face of animation, rendering, for the first time, a face with shine on its forehead and a realistic shadow cast under its nose.
June 23, 2010 at 10:16 pm

Probably the farthest thing from the over the top “passion” on The Jersey Shore, the Italian film I Am Love is a quietly moving and understated look at relationships.
June 23, 2010 at 10:03 pm

Early in the film, Get Him to The Greek, a spin-off of the brilliantly funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall, seems to have all the promise of its predecessor.
June 16, 2010 at 8:57 pm

Admit it: unless you’re an avid watcher of QVC (no judgment here), you probably only think of Joan Rivers at the mention of plastic surgery disasters.
June 16, 2010 at 8:53 pm

Battle wounds, malaria treatment and vaccinations are to be expected in a film documenting the mission of four Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) volunteers in devastated Liberia and war-torn Congo.
June 2, 2010 at 9:45 pm

In Sex and the City 2, the girls are back with the same wild outfits, the same posh cocktails and sex just as steamy as it was a decade ago.
June 2, 2010 at 9:29 pm

George A. Romero has made a career out of zombie movies, starting all the way back in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead. His latest offering, the upcoming Survival of the Dead, makes perfectly clear that it’s time for Romero to lay this sub-genre to rest.
May 26, 2010 at 9:51 pm

Street sat down with Nash Edgerton, director of The Square, to discuss spiders, stuntwork and freak accidents Street: You do everything – acting, editing, directing, writing, stuntwork – is their a certain role you like most? Nash Edgerton: No I don’t think – I kinda like doing a bit of everything.
April 22, 2010 at 1:52 am

Disney’s newest earth day special, Oceans, explores the thought posed by a tiny blonde boy in the opening scene — “What is the ocean?” In an effort to answer the question Disney, guided by the narration of Pierce Brosnan, takes us into the sea to meet the characters that define it.
April 22, 2010 at 1:50 am