‘Battleship’: Board game, bored viewers ✭ 1/2
"Battleship"is not the first major motion picture to be based on a board game — who could forget 1985's benighted "Clue"? — but it is surely the most expensive. With...
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‘Battleship’: Board game, bored viewers ✭ 1/2
"Battleship"is not the first major motion picture to be based on a board game — who could forget 1985's benighted "Clue"? — but it is surely the most expensive. With...
‘First Position’ puts ballet dreams on the line for 7 youngsters ✭✭✭ 1/2
"Gotta dance!" is what Gene Kelly insists in "Singin' in the Rain," and the driven young people featured in the irresistible "First Position" would enthusiastically agree. As directed by Bess...
‘First Position’ puts ballet dreams on the line for 7 youngsters ✭✭✭ 1/2
"Gotta dance!" is what Gene Kelly insists in "Singin' in the Rain," and the driven young people featured in the irresistible "First Position" would enthusiastically agree. As directed by Bess...
Man’s trials season ‘The Salt of Life’ ✭✭✭✭
That a film as delicate, personal and small-scale as "The Salt of Life," directed and co-written byItaly'sGianni Di Gregorio, exists at all is a function of fate and chance. Di...
From sewers of Poland, ‘In Darkness’ sheds light on history of Holocaust ✭✭✭✭
"In Darkness" is a pitiless glimpse into the inferno, into hell not only on earth but below it. Based on a true story, it visits the sewers of the Polish...
From sewers of Poland, ‘In Darkness’ sheds light on history of Holocaust ✭✭✭✭
"In Darkness" is a pitiless glimpse into the inferno, into hell not only on earth but below it. Based on a true story, it visits the sewers of the Polish...
Murder rears its head in Jane Austen’s world
Death comes to Pemberley, one of the great houses in Derbyshire, and a most unwelcome guest it is. Not only does the loss of life come at a most inopportune...
Bonnaire’s Helene captures her audience
You may go into "Queen to Play" looking forward to seeing Kevin Kline acting in French, but when you come out you will have Sandrine Bonnaire on your mind. A...
Review: “The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Novel” by Henning Mankell
Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Kurt Wallander? Don't worry, the peerless Swedish police detective, the pride of the force in rural Ystad, doesn't get ruthlessly gunned down...