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  • Published
    January 25, 2012

    Leading lady gives bad guys a heck of a fight in ‘Haywire’

    Watching Gina Carano kick, spin, flip, choke, crack and crush the fiercest of foes is thoroughly entertaining, highly amusing and frankly somewhat awe-inspiring.

  • Published
    January 25, 2012

    A few chuckles, not many thrills from ‘Man on a Ledge’

    Pablo F. Fenjves' script is perfectly pithy.

  • Published
    January 25, 2012
    50/50

    DVD Releases

    NEW ON DVD and BLU-RAY “50/50,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen. While few would regard the subject of cancer as a potential laugh riot, director Jonathan Levine and writer Will Reiser (who draws on his own personal experience) manages to evoke at least as many guffaws as tears in this refreshingly candid story of […]

  • Published
    January 25, 2012

    ‘The Grey’ loses its promise and premise after the crash

    “The Grey” is an old-fashioned survival tale harboring pretensions that it is something more. Not a lot more — just a hint of the psycho-cerebral here, a smidgen of the primal and primitive there. Liam Neeson stars in director Joe (“Smoking Aces”) Carnahan’s latest splash of testosterone, about a wintry plane crash in the Alaskan […]

  • Published
    January 19, 2012

    At the Movies

    OPENING FRIDAY “40 WEST” (NR) Stars Jennifer Nichole Porter, Scott Winters and Brian A. White. Directed by Dana Packard. A blues musician finds herself trapped in a sordid East Texas motel room with her violent husband, who was released from prison early. The film contains strong language and violence. There will be Q&A session with the […]

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  • Published
    January 18, 2012

    DVD Releases

    NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “ABDUCTION,” starring Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins. Intriguing, briskly paced thriller wherein a young man (Lautner of the “Twilight” series) discovers his baby photo on a missing persons website, putting everything he thought he knew about his upbringing into question and setting him on a quest for answers that could […]

  • Published
    January 18, 2012

    ‘Contraband’ gets a bit tangled, but action, cast make up for it

    This very gritty bit of greased action does a decent job of shaking the sluggish out of January.

  • Published
    January 11, 2012

    ‘Beauty and the Beast’: Best animated film is back in 3-D

    It's still glorious, from story to songs to vocal performances to the message: Don't let custom and social restrictions hold you back. Be yourself, girls.

  • Published
    January 11, 2012

    In ‘Carnage,’ helicopter parents are out for blood

    There's no literal blood, no entrails or visible battle wounds. But they titled this one right.

  • Published
    January 11, 2012

    ‘Joyful Noise’ comes alive on stage despite vanilla plot

    Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah play two big belters with competing visions of how their integrated small-town church choir can win the big Joyful Noise choir contest.

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