Hard at Work on New Year’s Eve
Friday, January 4th, 2008At the top of his game, Chris Rock gets ready to rock Madison Square Garden.
At the top of his game, Chris Rock gets ready to rock Madison Square Garden.
Hollywood’s glamour machine is stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next month’s Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away.
“Persepolis,” austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit.
I know it’s hard to believe, but during the past 12 months I sometimes went two or three weeks in a row without finding anything to mock, deflate or be disappointed by.
Mr. Sippy was an Indian filmmaker whose 1975 blockbuster “Sholay” (“Embers”) remains the most famous Hindi movie and the biggest commercial success for Bollywood.
Mr. Kidd was the award-winning choreographer of exuberant dance numbers for Broadway shows like “Guys and Dolls” and Hollywood musicals including “The Band Wagon.”
“The Bucket List” operates on the hope that two beloved stars rubbing their signature screen personas together can spark warm, fuzzy box office magic.
The second “Aliens vs. Predator” film is, like its predecessor, one very dark movie. Not psychologically dark; dark dark, as in not very generously lighted.
“Chuck Close,” about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
Many lonely children yearn for a pet to call their own. In “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep,” based on a novel by Dick King-Smith, a boy finds not only that, but a best friend as well.