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Sending a message: It’s time to reconnect
Friday, April 26, 2013
“Disconnect” is a “Crash”-style polemic told through a series of interwoven stories about teens, couples and families strained by the lack of communication in this Golden Age of Information.
Redford in good company in story about ’70s radicals
Friday, April 26, 2013
Robert Redford delivers one last lecture on ’60s idealism and passes another baton to Shia LaBeouf in “The Company You Keep,” an engrossing thriller about the last anti-Vietnam War radicals still underground.
SCHENECTADY
Hundreds line up for ‘Fast Life’ premiere
Thursday, April 25, 2013
A local film that was years in the making was delayed a little longer Thursday evening because of demand to see it.
AUSTIN, Texas
McConaughey proving he’s not all abs and no brains
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Matthew McConaughey's 20-year journey across the Hollywood landscape reflects a fascinating dichotomy.
LOS ANGELES
Sci-fi movie thriller ‘Oblivion’ cruises to No. 1 slot at theaters
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Movie fans slipped into “Oblivion” as the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller led Hollywood with a $38.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Connections to Robinson’s integration of baseball still seen in Brooklyn
Sunday, April 21, 2013
With the movie “42” bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Cruise energetic as usual, but bland stretches temper sci-fi epic "Oblivion"
Friday, April 19, 2013
“Oblivion” has aliens called Scavengers who dress like Sand People from “Star Wars”; round, red-eyed killer drones from “2001” and “Robocop”; a finale from “Independence Day”; and a director from “TRON: Legacy.” And Joseph Kosinski brought his blatting synthetic tubas score, used in the original “TRON” and in “Inception,” with him. That doesn’t make “Oblivion” a bad movie, just a familiar one — generic.
Redemption tale ‘Home Run’ is more like a routine flyball
Friday, April 19, 2013
In “Home Run,” Scott Elrod has the build, the swagger and the sweet swing of a big leaguer. That makes him and this thin tale of 12-step redemption credible and watchable, if nothing else.
NEW YORK
Tribeca festival offering movies, a whole lot more
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off today, is highlighted by a handful of notable documentaries about iconoclasts whose verbose vitality is barely contained within 90 minutes.
LOS ANGELES
Robinson tribute '42' scores rare hit for baseball movies; 'Pines' cracks top 10
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Jackson Robinson tribute film '42' has a surprisingly strong showing in its opening weekend at the box office.
CAPITAL REGION
Drive-ins, theaters making costly conversion to digital
Saturday, April 13, 2013
While major movie theater chains have already made the switch, some area businesses are just beginning digital conversions. Drive-ins like Malta are now making $75,000 investments, or have recently upgraded. Small theaters — many of them family-owned — are looking for ways to raise money to keep the lights out in their movie houses.
Horror spoof frighteningly unfunny
Saturday, April 13, 2013
“Scary Movie 5,” which opened without being press-screened, unspooled to an opening day audience that produced a deafening silence.
SCHENECTADY
Local movie fans give good reviews to 'Pines'
Friday, April 12, 2013
The film shot exclusively on location in the Schenectady area drew good reviews from many of the people who flocked to see it during its national debut.
'No' kidding: Silly songs made history in Chile
Friday, April 12, 2013
“No,” based on a play, gets bogged down in brainstorming sessions, arguments over what props to use on the sets of the commercials and the input of “focus groups.” But the paranoia plays beautifully, juxtaposing the guarded optimism of the artistic community (most of whom were in the “No” camp) with the stakes — police intimidation, vandalism, arrests.
‘42’ is accurate, entertaining but low-key look at Robinson breaking color barrier
Friday, April 12, 2013
Earnest, righteous, historically accurate and often entertaining, writer-director Brian Helgeland’s “42” is pretty much all you could hope for in a Jackie Robinson film biography.
