Film
How to Train Your Dragon
For all the CGI bombast, though, what carries “How to Train Your Dragon” is the dialogue written for its characters and handed off to a superb cast.
Scholar Denied Visitation Privileges
Harvard’s chapter of Scholars at Risk is investigating the travel restrictions placed on Beijing Film Academy professor Cui Weiping, who was denied permission to visit the United States last week by the Academy.
Kechiche Shows Harvard Film Archive Some 'Love'
Although he has spent most of his life in France, Kechiche, the eleventh recipient of the prize, was deemed to have excellently portrayed France’s Arab community through his films.
WWII Film Offers POV on Holocaust
From harrowing early documentaries providing the first looks into the Nazi death camps to award-winning blockbusters like “Schindler’s List,” cinema has proven itself uniquely suited to conveying the grim significance of the Holocaust. The volume of cinematic depictions can only be explained by the event’s call for intensely visual artistic response.
Hot Tub Time Machine
It is not difficult to figure out the story of “Hot Tub Time Machine.” There is a hot tub. It allows people to travel through time.
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In the raucous and raunchy “Hot Tub Time Machine,” four slacker friends (John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Rob Corrdry, and Clark Duke) travel back in time in a hot tub and try to prevent their futures from changing. Though frequently crude, the film’s cast manages to deliver the comedic goods (and rear nudity).
The White Stripes
“Under Great White Northern Lights” opts for an unfocused, superficial look at the White Stripes.
‘League’ Stars Not About the Looks
Alice Eve and Krysten Ritter are two very busy women. Promoting their upcoming romantic comedy, “She’s Out of My League,” they have been making a whirlwind tour of America, stopping in Boston in late February to screen the movie and orchestrate some publicity.
She’s Out of My League
The premise of “She’s Out of My League” is an interesting one: a slight variation on the typical boy-meets-girl romantic comedy. But the plotline is a dud, selling out in the end for the formulaic happy ending everyone has seen before.
The Yellow Handkerchief
Though the film can be hokey at times, its strong visual appeal and soundtrack, paired with the honesty of the character interactions, prevent “The Yellow Handkerchief” from sliding into mediocrity.
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In “The Yellow Handkerchief,” a chance encounter unites three unlikely people on a road trip that promises to change their lives forever. As they journey through the South, Brett Hanson’s (William Hurt) tragic past is revealed through a series of haunting flashbacks, while the younger couple falls in love.
