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Your summer movie queue: The place to be this summer will be cineplexes
Film Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 5:44pmThe IcemanMichael Shannon knows how to play crazy. Whether as a psychotic Prohibition agent on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire or as a paranoid family man in 2011’s Take Shelter, he creates characters whose...
What summer movies our writers are looking forward to
Film Comments May 01, 2013 8:26pmCOLIN BOYD ON MAN OF STEELDo we need Superman anymore? Do we even want him? Since Tim Burton’s Batman, we don’t like our movie comic book heroes “super” so much as “tortured.” And Superman is,...
My summer of so-so movies
Film Comments May 01, 2013 7:30pmSure, I’ll see Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z and, if a Saturday in July is otherwise drained of options, Man of Steel. And I’ll read reviews of The Great Gatsby, The Hangover III and the...
CineList, 5.2.13
Film Comments May 01, 2013 7:16pmNEW RELEASESPICK - Iron Man 3 (PG-13, 130 mins) See review, this issue.NOW PLAYING42 (PG-13, 128 mins) Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) ignores white folk shenanigans to kick ass in baseball. This...
Trusty sidekick: Robert Downey Jr. breathes new life into Iron Man
Film Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 5:20pmThe modern Robert Downey Jr. was not a creation of Iron Man. Three years earlier, he starred in a much smaller film, one that even with his massive success since, people have unfortunately avoided....
Review: ‘Starbuck’ an absorbing case of who’s-your-daddy
Film Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:47pm“Sperm donor discovers he’s the father of 533 children.” Sounds like a ribald Blake Edwards flick from the mid-1980s, and with a little less attention, Starbuck could have been pulled clumsily down...
Review: ‘Mud’ is Huck and Tom, updated
Film Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:41pmWith Mud, writer-director Jeff Nichols has officially become the poet laureate of the slow-burn South — this, even though his last film, 2011’s Take Shelter, is set in Ohio. (Watch it again: The film...
Review: Redford is a geezer on the lam in ‘Company’
Film Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:37pmDepending on your age, there is a certain pleasure in seeing Robert Redford, who once played Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, being interrogated on screen by a not-very-good newspaper reporter. It’s...
CineList, 4.25.13
Film Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:06pmNEW RELEASESArthur Newman (R, 111 mins) A man (Colin Firth) assumes a new identity for a lif reboot, and falls for a woman (Emily Blunt) also escaping who she really is.The Big Wedding (R, 90 mins) A...
Review: ‘Lore’ a peculiar Holocaust film that’s also beautiful
Film Comments Apr 17, 2013 6:54pmIn the cinema of the Holocaust, there are movies that are long, like The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, four hours) and Shoah (1985, nine-and-a-half hours). And there are movies that are short, like...
