“Her” is the first great movie of 2014, despite a premise that sounds absolutely ridiculous.
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“Her” is a love story that’s sad and funny and touching and overflowing with every bit of the inventiveness you’d expect from the visual visionary Spike Jonze.
“August: Osage County” is messy, rambling and dark. But it has a great cast that puts the fun in dysfunctional.
What: “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Netlifx made available plenty of new offerings on Jan 1. Here are 10 to check out if you want to avoid embarrassing yourself the next time a co-worker asks if you’ve seen “a classic.”
On a wintry weekend, Disney’s “Frozen” retook the box-office top spot with $20.7 million, freezing out the horror spinoff “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.”
A coroner’s report says the Porsche carrying “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker may have been going 100 mph or more before it crashed, killing both Walker and the driver.
It may seem a little soon to start looking ahead to some of the big movies for next holiday season. Especially since several of last year’s high-profile holiday releases — “Her,” “Lone Survivor,” “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “August: Osage County” — won’t open in Las Vegas until Jan. 10.
Over the bustling post-Christmas holiday weekend, Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” continued to lead the box office, as it landed in the No. 1 slot for the third weekend in a row.
Historians may look back on 2013 as the year of “blockbuster fatigue,” as an unprecedented number of big event movies tanked this summer.
Despite summertime flops, Hollywood is expected to coming in just shy of $11 billion at the box office for 2013, the largest take ever. But because of higher ticket prices, actual attendance at North American theaters remained flat after a decade of decline.
Even as new filmmaking centers help spread Hollywood’s wealth around the world, the boost to local economies comes at a personal cost to the specialists who must follow the work. As movie production migrates from place to place, friendships get left behind and raising a family can be difficult.
Director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio revisit the anything-goes late ’80s and early ’90s with such debauchery that it should elicit abject horror but mostly plays as comedy.
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” starring and directed by Ben Stiller, is a sweet, hopeful, good-hearted tale hampered by the fact that it can’t quite decide whether it’s a comedy or a drama. But there are at least nine good reasons to see it.
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