Based on the 2004 Danish film of the same name by Susanne Bier, “Brothers” is a home-front melodrama that is timely, but perhaps unfashionable.
Paranormal Activity may be one of the biggest box-office success stories of the year.
Demonic possession is appropriate territory for Diablo Cody, a screenwriter whose extremely stylized comedic voice seems to claw its way through each of her film’s characters, lines that are sometimes best ignored, but for the most part, are at least delivered with good cheer.
Elia Kazan, the prolific, brilliant director, turned 100 this year.
Written and directed by Greg Mottola (“Superbad”), “Adventureland” is a semi- autobiographical coming-of-age tale that will likely find resonance with Wesleyan students.
Showtime’s “The United States of Tara” is a new comedy-drama television series that focuses on the everyday life of a woman (Toni Colette) with Dissociative Identity (also known as Multiple Personality) Disorder.
Director Catherine Hardwicke (“Thirteen”) offers up a fairly loyal adaptation of the much-beloved “Twilight” series’ first book, which chronicles the epic romance between a shy high school girl and her vampire beau.
Kevin Smith’s new film, “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” centers around a conventional love story about two slackers, Zack and Miri, (Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks) who try to fuck in front of a camera for money, and instead wind up making love (and unusable footage).
Directed by Peter Sollett (“Raising Victor Vargas”), “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” revolves around a night in the life of wealthy bridge-and-tunnel kids as they scour New York’s rock clubs in their vintage automobiles in search of the elusive band “Where’s Fluffy.” On this quest are two “musical soulmates,” Nick (Michael Cera), the only straight member of a queercore band who makes painstaking mix tapes for his ex, and music industry royalty Norah (Kat Dennings), who fishes Nick’s mixes out of the trash when his ex carelessly throws them away.
For most of us, the Playboy Mansion – that bastion of unabashed bimboism, old man lechery and rock & roll debauchery – is hardly synonymous with childhood magic.