Bravo, Film Streams, for bringing us this series of animated short films nominated for Academy Awards. They’re all artistically excellent, but highlights include a pun-rich Wallace and Gromit story, the inventive “The Lady and the Reaper,” the sly “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” and, best of all, the rude and subversive “Logorama.”
Grade: B+
This is old-school horror, in the tradition of Christopher Lee’s Dracula classics of the 1960s, with stagecoaches in foggy forests, a damsel in a cobwebbed castle and a bestial brute ripping up the townsfolk. Anthony Hopkins adds class and Hugo Weaving adds creepiness to a fun though conventional movie.
Grade: C+
What I like most about this ferociously entertaining remake of the classic monster story is that it cuts (pun intended) right to the chase — no tedious Victorian love story to sit through, no gasbag discussions about the origins of evil, just throat-ripping, blood-spurting mayhem from beginning to end. Hey, I like my werewolves wet and wild, so sue me.
Grade: B
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A gay professor in 1960s Los Angeles mourns the death of his lover, and nothing can cheer him up – not the characters of both sexes adoring him, not the ultra-cool sets and costumes surrounding him. It makes for a movie that is singularly narcissistic and nondramatic.
Grade: C-
As much as I admired Jeff Bridges’ weary buy warmhearted performance as a moldering country singer, nothing really happens in Crazy Heart. It’s a very, very long two hours of cigarettes, guitars and regrets.
Grade: B-
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This story of a blind movie writer who used to be a director is smart, funny and sexy, with a plot too complicated to summarize in two sentences. It’s a testament to the craftsmanship of writer/director Pedro Almodóvar that he makes it easy to follow and entertaining.
Grade: B+
There must be a Web site somewhere that counts how many people get shot in the head in popular movies. If so, Edge of Darkness must hold the new record, as Mel Gibson splits open more noggins than a brain surgeon.
Grade: C
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