This year, there are CIA thrillers and CIA rom-coms, 3-D-ized reissues and 3-D sequels, and movies that look at marriage and relationships from every which way.
There is kids' fare, there is literary fare, there are comic-book adaptations and fairy tales, and there are a handful of documentaries and art-house titles that opened in New York and Los Angeles in the final hours of 2011 to qualify for Academy Award consideration, finally making their way to this neck of the woods.
So, here are a few possibly noteworthy entries. Fingers crossed.
- Steven Rea, Inquirer movie critic
Spring Arts - Film:
Safe House (Feb. 10) Denzel Washington is a rogue CIA operative being watched over by Ryan Reynolds in a secured agency facility, when everything goes kablooey, sending the two of them - captor and captive, veteran spy and new guy - on the run. Action, intrigue, double-crosses galore.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3-D (Feb. 10) "Confer on you, 3-D glasses, the Council does," the floppy-eared green guru of George Lucas' space sagas might say. The 1999 prequel gets retooled for stereoscopic viewing, with Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson as the Jedi knights on a mission to Naboo. Naboo in three dimensions!
The Vow (Feb. 10) Rachel McAdams is in a car crash and a coma, and then wakes up and can't remember that she's married to Channing Tatum (or maybe it's Tatum Channing?), so he has to woo her all over again. Michael Sucsy, of the Drew Barrymore/Jessica Lange Grey Gardens, directs. Valentine's Day amnesia movie - mark your calendar before you forget.
