Safe House – Review
Crave Online
The weekend before Valentine's Day means one thing: TONS of new releases. From romance ("The Vow") to action ("Safe House") to nostalgia ("The Phantom Menace"), all four quadrants will be served this weekend. Which film will emerge victorious? Safe House is a twisted claw of a movie, a picture so visually ugly that, to borrow [...]
Read MoreOne for the Money: Did Katherine Heigl's Movie Get Its Groupon On?
E! Online
Coming in at second place was the Katherine Heigl vehicle, One For the Money. The long-delayed adaptation of the first of seventeen Stephanie Plum novels was not screened for critics, and the Friday morning smack-down seemed to imply that Lionsgate (long before this blog or before I even knew what a blog was) I had [...]
Read MoreOne for the Money: Did Katherine Heigl's Movie Get Its Groupon On?
E! Online
by Lynette Rice Katherine Heigl certainly attracted attention recently when she matter-of-factly mentioned — while promoting her new movie One for the Money — that she'd love a return trip to Grey's Anatomy. “I really, really, really want to see The 'Grey's Anatomy' star should have just stayed on TV. By Ramin Setoodeh. (long before [...]
Read MoreReview: The Grey
Seattle Post
Liam Neeson's late-career transformation into an action star continued as the 59-year-old actor's latest thriller, The Grey, took a bite out of the box office with $6.5 million on Friday. That places the R-rated man-versus-wolves But The Grey is so much more than that. It's really the story of men who need a life-or-death struggle [...]
Read MoreOne for the Money
Boston.com
by Lynette Rice Katherine Heigl certainly attracted attention recently when she matter-of-factly mentioned — while promoting her new movie One for the Money — that she'd love a return trip to Grey's Anatomy. “I really, really, really want to see PG One for the Money Starring Katherine Heigl, John Leguizamo and Debbie Reynolds. Directed by [...]
Read More'Grey' leads 'Man on a Ledge,' 'One for the Money'
Los Angeles
Katherine Heigl at the 'One for the Money' premiere at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square on January 24, 2012 in New York City. Katherine Heigl at the 'One for the Money' premiere at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square on January 24, 2012 in New York City. Katherine Heigl, Daniel Sunjata, Sherri Shepherd and Jason O'Mara [...]
Read More'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' ads featuring burning WTC taken down in NYC
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Our film critic notes that this movie title could be an apt description for its own producer. "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" grosses $3.2 million as it expands nationwide; Steven Soderbergh's upscale action pic 'Haywire' comes in No. 5 after scoring D+ CinemaScore. Screen Gems' Underworld: Awakening and George Lucas' Red Tails are fueling A [...]
Read MoreTuskegee Airmen movie “Red Tails” a hard sell in Hollywood
msnbc.com
It took George Lucas 23 years to get 'Red Tails' — the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all black aerial combat unit during World War II — produced and in theaters. The film, which Lucas calls his passion project, included If only the filmmakers telling this story were as high-flying and ambitious as [...]
Read MorePath to make Tuskegee Airmen movie 'Red Tails' carried a lot of cultural freight
Washington P
Red Tails tells an important World War II story of brave black soldiers chafing at the constraints of government-enforced racial segregation. It's gratifying to finally see such a story told, with a complement of able black actors, in a movie to which Does George Lucas' 'Red Tails' deliver high-flying adventure and moving WWII drama? Read [...]
Read MoreThe men of 'Haywire' talk getting beaten by 'intimidating' Gina Carano …
Entertainmen
But the spirit of Modesty lives, by another name and in a different sort of story, in Stephen Soderbergh's stylish, quietly exhilarating Haywire, which features mixed martial-arts star Gina Carano as a hit person with a smoldering, by Aly Semigran It takes a certain kind of guy to go up against Gina Carano. A very [...]
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