Movies

July 2, 2009
By RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ Los Angeles Times
Actor Johnny Depp has fond memories of his first machine gun.
By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com
Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” proves that the advance of technology is not always pretty.
June 25, 2009
By CHRISTY LEMIRE The Associated Press
“My Sister’s Keeper” is a shameless weepy, one of the most manipulative and fundamental of genres, but it also raises some surprisingly difficult and thought-provoking ethical questions.
By DAVID GERMAIN - The Associated Press
The title of Woody Allen’s new comedy, “Whatever Works,” might define what the filmmaker has been up to the last few years.
June 24, 2009
By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com
How many committees did it take to come up with the subtitle for the “Transformers” sequel?
June 23, 2009
June 19, 2009
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
Making a solid summer comedy starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, David Cross and Hank Azaria should be so easy, a caveman could do it.
By LOU KESTEN - The Associated Press
Harold Ramis has directed some of the most popular comedies of the past 30 years, including "Caddyshack," ''Groundhog Day" and "Analyze This." But his smartest career decision may have been rejecting one high-profile job.
June 18, 2009
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
You put food in your mouth every day. But do you know exactly what you’re consuming when you pick up chicken breasts at the grocery store or drive though a fast-food restaurant for a cheeseburger?
By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com
Threatened with deportation to Canada in “The Proposal,” Sandra Bullock resorts to a dodge that works only in movies and sit-coms: She arranges a quickie marriage to an American citizen.
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
“Moon” does something extraordinary: It seems familiar and derivative, yet upends your expectations about science fiction and surprises you over and over.
June 16, 2009
By SANDY COHEN – The Associated Press
To reprise his role as Sam in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” Shia LaBeouf played with pain – and paid with flesh.
By WASHINGTON POST
Check out what's new on DVD.
June 11, 2009
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
The way the original 1974 film’s title has been condensed tells you everything you need to know about the direction “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” is headed. In these fast-paced, mixed-up times, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
The words “Eddie Murphy family comedy” are enough to send shivers down the spine of any self-respecting film lover.
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
Movies about pregnancy all too often feature mad dashes to the maternity ward, delivery-room histrionics and bumbling, hovering relatives.
June 9, 2009
By The WASHINGTON POST
Check out what's new on DVD.
June 4, 2009
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
As we learn from “My Life in Ruins,” the Greek word for mojo – or zest for life – is “kefi.” Nia Vardalos’ character has lost hers and needs to get it back.
By CHRISTY LEMIRE The Associated Press
You’d be forgiven for thinking “The Hangover” is a documentary.
By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com
“Land of the Lost” was the highlight of my Saturday mornings in the mid-1970s. How could it not be? I was 10, and it had dinosaurs in it.
By Geoff Boucher Los Angeles Times
HOLLYWOOD – Dan Aykroyd has waited two decades for the "Ghostbusters" film franchise to come back from Hollywood's great beyond, and now it's so close he can feel it in his bones.
June 2, 2009
By The WASHINGTON POST
New on DVD this week:
May 28, 2009
By JEFFREY WESTHOFF sidetracks@nwherald.com
"Up” may not quite rank as Pixar’s finest film (I lean toward “Ratatouille”), but it is certainly the animation studio’s oddest and bravest picture, and possibly its most beautiful.
By DAVID GERMAIN – The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – When you need an old grouch, Edward Asner is your man.
May 21, 2009
By JEFFREY WESTHOFF - sidetracks@nwherald.com
The “Terminator” series, with one exception, has a knack for rising above low expectations.
By Geoff Boucher Los Angeles Times
This week the "Terminator" franchise returns to theaters with its darkest chapter yet, a relentless, spirit-crushing vision of the future where humans are snuffed by killer robots. There are not a lot of lighthearted moments in this film, but you might hear chuckles in the theater during the screen credits because of one line: "A McG film."
By MICHAEL WEINFELD - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Not since Charlton Heston told a "dirty ape" what to do with his stinking paws has an actor been so tormented by a monkey.
By CHRISTY LEMIRE - The Associated Press
“Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” is one of those sequels in which “bigger” is supposed to mean “better,” in which more characters, more sight gags and more action are supposed to add up to more fun.
• DreamWorks said it wanted to make a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. “provided that there is unity” among the civil rights icon’s children.
May 20, 2009
• Are there boundaries to declaring the next “Amer­ican Idol” champ early? Apparently, nothing can contain the likes of Adam Lambert.

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