NewsfeedIf you plan on seeing Brokeback Mountain in theatres, you had better clear out about six hours of your day. That's because the closest movie theatre playing the two hour and fifteen minute movie is in the Detroit area. »
A remake of the 1968 film starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, The Producers is a movie that knows how to have fun. In his review of The Producers, Roger Ebert writes: "The new movie is a success. How much of a success, I cannot be sure. Someone who has seen the original once or twice, or never, would be a better judge." Having never seen the original, this apparently puts me in the highly unusual position of being a better judge of a film than Ebert himself. From that pulpit, let me say that this new version is a large success. A fast-paced work of over-the-top satire, The Producers is a demonstration of how witty and absurdly humorous movies can be. »
Sex and violence, those nightmares of parents, are rarely seen as explicitly and frequently as in Hostel. Here is a movie where nudity is all that can be remembered of its first half, and brutal and sadistic killings are all that can be remembered of its second half. These things alone do not make a good movie, and it is possible for them to ruin a good movie. They do not make Hostel a movie worth seeing, and there does not appear to be much of a good movie behind these extreme sights. »
Big stars and big sequels is how to summarize this week's new films, coming to theaters on Jan. 20.
Underworld: Evolution
Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as Selene in this sequel to the successful 2003 vampire versus werewolf film. »