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  • Published
    January 11, 2012

    In ‘Carnage,’ helicopter parents are out for blood

    There's no literal blood, no entrails or visible battle wounds. But they titled this one right.

  • Published
    January 11, 2012

    ‘Joyful Noise’ comes alive on stage despite vanilla plot

    Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah play two big belters with competing visions of how their integrated small-town church choir can win the big Joyful Noise choir contest.

  • Published
    January 5, 2012

    GO Preview: ‘In the Blood-Live’

    Filmmaker Summer McKane’s multi-year project comes to fruition with “In the Blood-Live.” His documentary film takes viewers through the history of logging camps in Maine with archival film, digitally restored photography, interviews, ambient sound design and live musical scoring. WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, January 14 WHERE: The Space Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland HOW MUCH: […]

  • Published
    January 5, 2012

    2012: A look ahead

    Batman, Bella, Bourne, Bond and Black (as in, 'Men in ...') are among the familiar names out there. Also: Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe, Di Caprio as Gatsby and a certain hobbit. And for the kids, more 'Madagascar' and 'Ice Age,' and plenty o' 3-D.

  • Published
    January 4, 2012

    ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ truly a quiet triumph

    "Tinker" radically – superlatively – condenses John Le Carre's classic novel.

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  • Published
    January 4, 2012

    2011: A look back

    Not the best year in the history of cinema – pretty mediocre, in fact – but there were some winners.

  • Published
    December 28, 2011

    Something delightfully wicked this way comes – ‘Young Adult’

    Think of it as "Juno's" wicked stepsister.

  • Published
    December 28, 2011
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    CHARGE!

    Spielberg battles Spielberg in an epic box-office throwdown, a win-win for John and Jane Moviegoer.

  • Published
    December 21, 2011

    Uneven ‘Zoo’ falls short of its feel-good aspirations

    “We Bought a Zoo” is a holiday movie worth rooting for. Directed by the cinema’s last great romantic, Cameron Crowe, it features cute tykes, young romance and a grownup grieving for a lost love, adorable animals and the comically crotchety Thomas Haden Church. The director of “Jerry Maguire” – whose last feature film, “Elizabethtown,” was […]

  • Published
    December 21, 2011

    Williams’ Monroe shows why gentlemen liked this blonde

    Williams 'gets' Monroe – the sex appeal, the vulnerability, the sense of fear of discovery behind all that out-there sexual bravado.