Movies

‘Mud’ is as authentically Southern as today’s cinema gets

By Roger MooreMCT | Wednesday, April 24 1:51 p.m.
The cinema’s leading purveyor of Southern Gothic, Jeff Nichols, hands Matthew McConaughey his latest tour de force turn in...

Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’ revisits a ’60s that wasn’t all peace and love

By STEPHEN HOLDENNew York Times News Service | Wednesday, April 24 1:50 p.m.
A seam of melancholy runs through “The Company You Keep,” Robert Redford’s reflective melodrama about...

‘Upstream Color’: Worms, a botanist and pigs are the makings of a love story

By MANOHLA DARGISNew York Times News Service | Wednesday, April 24 1:50 p.m.
Shane Carruth’s “Upstream Color,” a deeply sincere, elliptical movie about being and nature, men and women,...

Shane Carruth, director of ‘Upstream Colors,’ builds a movie language in layers

By DENNIS LIMNew York Times News Service | Wednesday, April 24 1:49 p.m.
‘I won’t always give satisfying answers,” filmmaker Shane Carruth said, by way of warning, in an interview...

Tom Cruise’s ‘Oblivion’ has the whiff of the overly familiar

By Roger MooreMcClatchy Newspapers | Tuesday, April 23 3:59 p.m.
Science fiction is one film genre that seems to wear its ancestors, the films that inspired it or, less charitably, that it...

Famous stunt woman Zoe Bell takes on more acting with a supporting role in ‘Oblivion’

By Roger MooreMCT | Wednesday, April 17 2:20 p.m.
Quentin Tarantino made her the most famous stunt woman alive. But Zoe Bell, now 34 and years removed from her breakout in...

Just saying ‘No’: Movie shows how commercials saved Chile from dictatorship

By Roger MooreMCT | Wednesday, April 17 2:18 p.m.
Here’s a fascinating piece of history that escaped much of the world’s notice when it happened in 1988.

Review: ‘Ginger & Rosa’ friendship has a ticking bomb

By A.O. SCOTTNew York Times News Service | Wednesday, April 17 2:17 p.m.
Ginger and Rosa are best friends. Vanguard baby boomers born in adjacent London hospital beds in 1945, they are teenagers in...

‘Scary Movie V’: When small appliances misbehave

By ANDY WEBSTERNew York Times News Service | Sunday, April 14 12:50 p.m.
It’s not even Halloween, and Dimension Films (the Weinstein Co.’s horror, action and sophomoric-comedy arm) is...

Jackie Robinson: The superhero who leaped color lines

By DANA JENNINGSNew York Times News Service | Wednesday, April 10 12:43 p.m.
Watching the movie “42” brings to mind the ending to John Ford’s fine 1962 western, “The Man Who Shot...

‘Blue Valentine’ director Derek Cianfrance looks at the difference between perception and reality in his new film ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’

By Mick LaSalleSan Francisco Chronicle | Wednesday, April 10 12:42 p.m.
‘The Place Beyond the Pines” is where writer-director Derek Cianfrance gets to show that his previous film,...