7 Feb 2012 at 6:52pm Directed by Oren Moverman from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the downward spiral of LAPD cop Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson). The action's set in 1999, right around the time 70 Rampart Division cops were busted for misconduct. Soon Brown is at the cent...
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31 Jan 2012 at 6:39pm Horror movies are lately given to gluttonous effects, but director Ti West ( The House of the Devil ) is a rare minimalist. His latest, The Innkeepers , takes place almost entirely on the premises of The Yankee Pedlar, a three-story turn-of-the-last-century hotel located on what might ...
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24 Jan 2012 at 6:42pm I was told there would be more wolf-punching. If you crash Liam Neeson and six disposable buddies in the frozen Alaskan wilderness, there is the expectation ? nay, the requirement ? that Neeson punch as many wolves as possible. Tape pocketknives and broken glass to your fists, ...
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17 Jan 2012 at 6:50pm "You just have to get crazier" was advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the moment in Wim Wenders's soaring 3-D tribute to the woman who revolutionized the art with her Tanztheater ("dance theater")?and who died unexpectedly right befor...
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17 Jan 2012 at 6:49pm Haywire 's plot is boilerplate triple-cross, cloak-and-dagger stuff ? but the action choreography by director Steven Soderbergh and MMA fighter Gina Carano puts the impact back into screen violence. After a setup, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Carano) goes rogue from her job as hired muscle...
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17 Jan 2012 at 6:49pm Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours , a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on AIDS and assisted suicide, he went to Auschwitz with 2008's The Reader . Daldry's logical next stop is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ...
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16 Jan 2012 at 3:48pm Six months before Christopher Nolan's final Batman film hits theaters, tickets for "The Dark Knight Rises: The IMAX Experience" are on sale for theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco for an early July 19 screening.
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