This is it: Oscar week! We know you probably have opinions about the big categories: best picture (Lincoln), best actor (Lincoln), best supporting actor (Lincoln) and the like (Lincoln). But those are only some of 24 categories! We gathered up our best and brightest analysts to predict the smaller, less obvious categories. Consider this your cheat sheet. And the Oscar goes to...
The category’s often overlooked, but many great directors got their start in the live action short category. You can check out these films at the Ritz at the Bourse.
From claymation to The Simpsons, this year’s crop of animated short films offer a wide range of style and theme. You can check out these films at the Ritz at the Bourse.
Directed by: Lasse Hallstroem
Starring: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 115
The newest Nicholas Sparks movie, “Safe Haven,” is part of a proud legacy of romantic melodrama that includes “A Walk to Remember” and “The Notebook.” But “Safe Haven” doesn’t live up to its predecessors: this time, Sparks gives us a total dud.
If you paid attention in your PSYC001 lecture like we did, then you’ll know that there’s a strong correlation between the physiological responses for fear and love.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta Jones, Channing Tatum
Rating: R
Running Time: 106 minutes
Steven Soderbergh’s “Side Effects” proves that it’s a terrible idea to try to wake a sleepwalker, especially when she has a knife.
Is Madame Presidente Gutmann moonlighting as Holly on The Office? Is that Quentin Tarantino running around at basketball games in a funny hat? Now presenting the long–lost twins of some of our favorite Penn personalities.
Directed by: Walter Hill
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater
Rating: R
Runtime: 91 min.
“Bullet to the Head,” based on the crime noir graphic novel “Du Plomb Dans La Tete,” is certainly graphic but offers nothing novel. The stereotypical action flick follows hitman Jimmy Bobo (Sylvester Stallone) and self–righteous Detective Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) as they join forces to stop a conspiracy involving greedy businessmen, corrupt cops and other action movie cliches.
The plot and characters are just tools to engineer more reasons for shooting, but even that leaves something to be desired.
"Identity Thief" is coming out tomorrow, but Hollywood started stealing a long time ago. Below, we judge movies that are suspiciously similar... and decide which are worthy of your time.