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Ewan McGregor introduced as cricket narrator in 'Pinocchio' trailer
January 24, 2022 | 11:29amThe newly released trailer for Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson's "Pinocchio" shows a new approach to the beloved tale, narrating the iconic puppet's adventures through the eyes of a...
Is 'Tulip Fever' going to be the biggest flop of the year?
August 24, 2017 | 6:41pm"Soon to be a major motion picture,” says the cover of the novel “Tulip Fever.” Someone may need to define “soon.” The film adaptation of Deborah Moggach’s popular 2000 historical...
Tim Burton’s ‘Big Eyes’ is a winsome comedy about kitschy Keane paintings
December 23, 2014 | 6:30pmWho gets to say what art is? Does honest emotion count for more than cold abstraction? If Andy Warhol likes it, does that make it OK? “Big Eyes” toys with...
Bond baddies leap from stage to film
December 16, 2014 | 9:19pmThe announcement that Christoph Waltz is playing the villain in “Spectre,” the new James Bond movie, sent me scurrying to my old 007 DVDs to check out some of my...
Dazzling visuals can’t make up for a plodding story in ‘Zero Theorem’
September 18, 2014 | 10:51amDirector Terry Gilliam’s nearly 20-year streak of bad movies remains unbroken with “The Zero Theorem,” yet another project whose narrative gets swallowed by its design. A lonely, repressed hacker (Christoph...