Muppet double feature at New Beverly Cinema. The New Beverly Cinema gets warm, fuzzy and family-friendly for Christmas with a charming double-bill: 1992’s “The Muppet Christmas Carol” and the underrated 1984 “The Muppets Take Manhattan.” Both movies screen (Read more…)

The Lovely Bones the studio flip-flops its marketing strategy to go after the same demographic that propelled the ‘Twilight’ movies into the box-office stratosphere. “The Lovely Bones” has all the adornments of a prestige drama aimed at adults. It was made by an Oscar-winning director, adapted from an acclaimed novel and features weighty subject matter. Given that pedigree, Paramount Pictures was stunned to discover that the film’s (Read more…)

Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. have established that moviegoers dig their new movies “The Princess and the Frog” and “Invictus.” But as a holiday season crowded with highly anticipated movies approaches, the question is whether they can both keep playing. Disney’s first hand-drawn animated feature in six years (Read more…)

Will (Gaelan Connell), a gawky, David Bowie-fixated teen, hates Cincinnati, where he’s picked on, but fortunately his sweet mum (Lisa Kudrow) moves them to New Jersey, where, even more fortunately, he hooks up with two pretty girls (Alyson Michalka and Vanessa Hudgens) who compete for his attention. it’s cornier than Kansas but Connell has a winning charm and Todd Graff’s script is nicely tangy – “School today was like (Read more…)

It’s an overcast Saturday afternoon, and inside a swanky Manhattan hotel room, Natalie Portman delicately sips on a cup of tea. “I’ve been doing interviews since I was 12,” muses the 28-year-old almost incredulously. For her latest film, “Brothers,” she plays a mother — and a heartbreakingly courageous one, too — for the first time. “I guess it’s a historical feminine trait … to be able to rise to the occasion,” Portman says of her role as military wife Grace Cahill. A welcome respite from the self-proclaimed “cute girl parts” (Read more…)

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