'2012': A disaster-flick compendium
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment and Afghanistan. With 2012, Roland "Day After Tomorrow" Emmerich serves up World's End 4.0, with cataclysmic effects showcasing what volcanoes, tidal waves and earthquakes will do once that fabled Mayan calendar runs out on Dec. 21, 2012.
'Pirate Radio': A silly '60s love song
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast members. He's a British Judd Apatow — indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.
'A Christmas Carol': Jim Carrey is everywhere, but the humor is not
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
The new Disney A Christmas Carol is another epic achievement in motion-capture animation, advancing the art form closer to photo-realism than The Polar Express or Beowulf. Dazzling, ornate visuals take us to the snowy London of 1837, swooping over its digital rooftops and down its digital chimneys. Faces take on musculature, expression and detail.
- 'The Box': There's nothing in it
- 'The Men Who Stare at Goats': Clooney plays goofy
- 'Coco Before Chanel': Biopic has style and substance
- Happy holiday film season: Hollywood's ready to roll 'em
- 'The Fourth Kind': Alien-abduction tale a fraud
- 'A Serious Man': Coens' latest film is about a human doormat
- Family reviews: 'A Christmas Carol'
- Lunafest is a good reason to go out in the middle of the week
- Cinemark at Richmond Mall closes
- 'This Is it': 'A lyrical tribute to an unfinished life'
- Film has style, needs substance
- 'Amelia': Swank soars, but movie plays it safe
- 'Astro Boy': Animated movie lacks rocket fuel
- With flood of movies, vampires have their day in the sun
- 'Cirque du Freak': Vampire spoof doesn't spoof enough
- 'Good Hair': Don't be caught nappy
- Family reviews: 'Astro Boy,' 'Amelia'
- Polanski case ignites Hollywood bashers
- 'Where the Wild Things Are': A faithful but dull adaptation
- Katie Featherston stunned by success of Paranormal Activity'
- Face it, animators: Give up on your realistic' humans
- Studio settlement reported for fake movie news
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- Lucy Liu film highlights child trafficking
- Gentlemen Broncos'
- The Movie Masochist: Unmoving violations
- Jackson's `This Is It' tops $200 million worldwide
- Disney CEO hints at successor amid upbeat 4Q
- The end is near as Hollywood does the apocalypse
