Today, there are 90,000 homeless people living in the Greater Los Angeles area, and Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx) is one of them. As a child, he assiduously practiced the cello and fell in love with Beethoven. His mother, the owner of a beauty salon, encouraged her son’s interest, seeing it as his passport to a [...]

We see it so often in thrillers that it has become cliché: A character finds out about an instance of corporate conspiracy or cloak-and-dagger politics, and after spending half of the film trying to avoid a shadowy assassin, he turns over a revelatory file folder to a reporter or newspaper that, thanks to a front [...]

April means just one thing to film fanatics: It’s time to stop catching up on LAST year’s films and watch something new. Which movies look good enough to put down on the calendar? Here’s my will-see list for the next four months:
May
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (May 1) – The “X-Men” franchise continues with this exploration into [...]

In high school, Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) was the popular girl; the perky cheerleader who dated the quarterback. Now she’s the single mother of an “unusual” 7-year-old (Jason Spevack) who spends her days working for a cleaning service. As if that weren’t bad enough, she’s having a hopeless affair with Mac, a married cop (Steve [...]

The target audience of “Monsters vs. Aliens” isn’t old enough to remember drive-in theaters, duck and cover instructional reels, or fallout shelters, but that shouldn’t prevent them from enjoying DreamWorks’ animated homage to some of the best loved sci-fi/horror films of the 1950’s.
At the center of the film is Susan (voiced by Reese Witherspoon), who [...]