In “Harry Brown,” the revered English actor Sir Michael Caine reveals a very different side of himself. As the title character, he plays an aging pensioner who, no longer willing or able to give in to ruinous gang rule in his neighborhood, goes on a spree of relentless vigilante revenge.

Caine, who is surprisingly brutal and violent in the movie, is in fact and in real life the clever, charming and gracious gentleman we’ve encountered in so many of his other movies, in a career that has spanned half a century and is still going strong. Read more

Even lady action heroes get the blues… Read more

Filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis’ insider look at burlesque’s sisterhood of strippers is smart, sassy, charming and revealing! Read more>>

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010, Disneynature delves into a true-life adventure: “Oceans.” Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, who made “Winged Migration” about creatures of the air, now dive deep into the mysterious waters that cover nearly three-quarters of our planet’s surface. For this Franco/Spanish/Swiss co-production, they filmed more than 200 species on 75 diving expeditions in 54 different locations in all five oceans over a period of four years. Read more

The pregnancy = lunacy gimmick produces a load of jokes, some slapsticky, others just obnoxious. But whether she’s slipping in mud or panting with hormones-induced desire, La Lopez is reduced here to shabby comedy, a few steps below even the frothy-ish fare of Maid in Manhattan. Read more>>

It’s fortunate that Jennifer Lopez has her own back-up plan as a pop singer because her taste in romantic comedies reeks of formulaic and stale. Read more

Aisha exists to make sure you know Clay is heterosexual — useful in a leader of a pack of men on their own, men who’ve shared long, intimate hours in jungles and war zones. Read more>>

Somewhere in the jungles of Bolivia, Special Forces ops have scoped out the hacienda of a narcotics kingpin and signaled for a military air strike to blow it to bits. But wait, the sneaky drug lord has just brought in a busload of 25 children as his mules! Read more

What’s most complicated and surprising in Doug Block’s The Kids Grow Up is the delicate, remarkably flexible tension between surface and experience. Read more>>

It’s a brilliant premise but wretchedly executed as German-born, American-educated Derrick Borte, who co-wrote the script with Randy T. Dinzler, takes the materialistic idea of “Keeping up with the Joneses” to a whole new level. Read more