http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Movies 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:36:14 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1320508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1320508.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BIG SCREEN 2012 (PG-13) -- Disaster magnet Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) returns to destroy our planet -- again. John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Amanda Peet are among the humans trying to make sense of the impending apocalypse. Remember when Irwin Allen made those star-studded disaster flicks in the 1970s? Those were awesome. Emmerich's, not so much. But they sure look awesome. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1315608.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1315608.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead -- came not on the page, but on TV. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1312746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1312746.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When it came to making movies quickly and cheaply, it was hard to beat Roger Corman, who once joked that he could make a film about the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush. He directed 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors in two days. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308412.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308412.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Everything about An Education, the story of a 16-year-old girl's affair with a 30-year-old man in London in 1962, comes together in a way that gives the movie the feel of an instant classic. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308424.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308424.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN The Box (PG-13): -- After the spectacular failure of his ambitious second film Southland Tales, writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box. Push its button, and you become instantly wealthy -- but someone, somewhere, drops dead. Would you do it? Come on, you know you would. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317463.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317463.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival: The 24th annual event moves into its final week of new features, documentaries and shorts from around the globe plus parties, seminars and films for kids. Filmmakers are featured at many of the events; through Nov. 11; Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale (unless otherwise noted); $10, $8 seniors and students, $6 FLIFF members (unless otherwise noted) A $25 donation is suggested at some of the screenings and is tax deductible. See website for details and to confirm schedule. 954-525-3456 or www.fliff.com: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/top-story/story/1315608.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/top-story/story/1315608.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead -- came not on the page, but on TV. http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/697803.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/697803.html Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:01 EST What's coming out this week http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325535.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325535.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:32 EST Action star Donnie Yen says he signed on to play an ancient Chinese secret service agent in his new film - even though it was another kung fu epic - because he wanted to tackle the role of a villain who discovers his humanity. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325490.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325490.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST The new comedy "(Untitled)" has the punctuation and the thinness of a gallery wall label. It wanders the exhibition spaces, lofts and performance venues of Chelsea and other parts of Manhattan, eavesdropping on the narcissistic mutterings - funny, some of them, now and then - of a group of artists and bohemians and poseurs going up, or down, or sideways. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325489.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325489.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST The first 20 minutes of "Precious," the full title of which is "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," are so intense and pitched so high, you may not feel like sticking it out. My advice: Stick it out. This is an exceptional film about nearly unendurable circumstances, endured. You will come out the other side of it a markedly enriched filmgoer. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1325066.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52 EST Another executive at The Walt Disney Co.'s movie studio is exiting hurriedly as the company's troubles continue at the box office with a weak opening for "A Christmas Carol." http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1324738.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/AP/story/1324738.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:08 EST It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr. Fox" offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317455.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317455.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''More of this is true than you would believe,'' warns a title card at the start of The Men Who Stare at Goats, although the ever-reliable ''I know this sounds crazy, but . . .'' would have worked just as well. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1318141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1318141.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Could there possibly be anything left to gain from yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale about crabby old Ebenezer Scrooge and his life-changing encounter with three ghosts on Christmas Eve? In the case of Disney's A Christmas Carol, the answer is a surprising, resounding yes -- at least so far as the IMAX 3D version goes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317454.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317454.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST You've heard about close encounters of the third kind, of course, the extraterrestrial meetings that involve contact, presumably of a benign nature. The fourth kind involves a more invasive sort of contact: alien abduction, possibly including those uncomfortable probes about which the true UFO believers are always so nervous. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317461.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The name Moritz Bleibtreu means little to American moviegoers, so imagine the volcanic early Jack Nicholson. Bleibtreu plays Andreas Baader, a volatile West German thug who led a terrorist gang called the Red Army Faction. His struggles to smash the state seem like the temper tantrums of a gun-slinging infant. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317458.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1317458.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST How do you pad out a six-page short story that strives to be nothing more than a clever little morality tale into a feature-length film? By throwing in lots and lots of stuff -- practically everything but zombies. Check that: We've got two hours to fill here. Bring on the zombies, too! http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1305916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1305916.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT As a film, Michael Jackson's This Is It is fairly straightforward, a series of musical numbers shot during rehearsals for the spectacular 50-show concert Jackson planned to stage at London's O2 arena but didn't live long enough to perform. As a cultural artifact, though, it's something more compelling: the final act of a pop legend, all the more powerful if you were one of the kids who bought ABC on a 45, danced your way through high school to the beat of Off the Wall, huddled around a TV in your college dorm to watch the MTV premiere of Thriller and wondered in later years: ``What happened to his face?'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1305908.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1305908.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Jenny (Carey Mulligan), a 16-year-old growing up in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961, is always the first in class to raise her hand with the answer. She is fluent in French and studying Latin; she plays the cello and is familiar with all the pre-Raphaelite artists (Rossetti and Burne-Jones are her favorites; Holman Hunt, not so much). http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1305921.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/story/1305921.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The central figure -- we can't call him a hero -- of this sports drama based on reality is the late English soccer team manager Brian Clough, who ranks with Jake LaMotta and Ty Cobb as one of the least lovable pro sports stars. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1320508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1320508.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BIG SCREEN 2012 (PG-13) -- Disaster magnet Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) returns to destroy our planet -- again. John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Amanda Peet are among the humans trying to make sense of the impending apocalypse. Remember when Irwin Allen made those star-studded disaster flicks in the 1970s? Those were awesome. Emmerich's, not so much. But they sure look awesome. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1315608.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1315608.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead -- came not on the page, but on TV. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1312746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1312746.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When it came to making movies quickly and cheaply, it was hard to beat Roger Corman, who once joked that he could make a film about the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush. He directed 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors in two days. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308412.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308412.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Everything about An Education, the story of a 16-year-old girl's affair with a 30-year-old man in London in 1962, comes together in a way that gives the movie the feel of an instant classic. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308424.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/story/1308424.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN The Box (PG-13): -- After the spectacular failure of his ambitious second film Southland Tales, writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box. Push its button, and you become instantly wealthy -- but someone, somewhere, drops dead. Would you do it? Come on, you know you would.