Opening Friday to all the lovebirds and the broken hearts celebrating (or maybe pining) during Valentine’s Day Weekend, The Vow centers the lives of Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum), a happily married couple living as artists in Chicago.  When Paige sustains memory loss after a car accident and has no recollection of [...]

On this day in 1959, Rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff on a flight from Mason City to Moorehead, Minnesota. Holly had chartered the plane for his band to fly between tour dates [...]

Juliette Lewis jumped out of the acting gate in an audacious fashion, thanks to her Oscar nominated work in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 feature Cape Fear, followed by prominent roles in From Dusk Till Dawn, The Evening Star, and, of course, Natural Born Killers. Although she’s done her share of co-starring roles the past several years, [...]

In Man on a Ledge, newcomer Genesis Rodriguez plays Angie, a loyal woman who helps her boyfriend (Jamie Bell) steal a diamond from a shady businessman (Ed Harris).  Their clandestine operation is aimed to prove the innocence of the boyfriend’s ex-cop brother (Sam Worthington), who’s planted himself on a Manhattan ledge to serve as [...]

Sam Worthington, seen last year in The Debt and Texas Killing Fields, kicks things off this new year with Man On A Ledge, where he plays an ex-con who threatens to jump off the ledge of a Manhattan hotel.  Our protagonist’s (or is it anti-hero?) stunt is not borne from suicidal tendencies, as he’s [...]

Probably best known for his work in the hugely successful TWILIGHT SAGA franchise, actor ROBERT PATTINSON will be seen in two non-Twilight films later this year. First up is BEL AMI, the story of a womanizing young man’s climb to power in 19th century Paris and based on the novel GUY DeMAUPASSANT. Following that will [...]

Is it just me or was Jessica Chastain in every other movie that was released this year?  In 2011, the once unknown actress graced us with The Tree of Life, The Debt, Take Shelter, The Help, Texas Killing Fields, and Coriolanus!  To put the proverbial icing on the cake, Chastain received a Golden Globes [...]

Take Shelter, a feature which won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received five Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, comes out on DVD February 14th.  The psychological thriller centers on an Ohioan (Boardwalk Empire’s Michael Shannon) who is determined to build a backyard storm shelter after having apocalyptic nightmares.  His erratic behavior takes [...]

Mad Men star Jared Harris (or for some middle aged movie fans like me… the lead in Michael Radford’s woefully ignored B. Monkey) gets the juicy rule of Professor James Moriarty, the brilliant sociopath who meets his match with Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

If you loved the action [...]

Noomi Rapace, best known as Lisbeth Sander from the The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, worked on two high profile films this year: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and director Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated sci-fi feature Prometheus.

“We all saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at about the same time, and it was [...]