Express Milwaukee - Film clips

Film Clips: May 16

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:27:00 CDT

Following the death of his wife, Ben Logan (Aaron Eckhart) is an American engineer working for a corporation located in Belgium. One morning he arrives at the company to find the entire office stripped and assassins waiting

Film Clips: May 9

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:42:00 CDT

Writer Tina Gordon Chism directs her own script—one lifted from Meet the Parents. The twist is that here the bride's judgmental family is both exceedingly wealthy and African American. Craig Robinson portrays Wade Walker, a blue-collar children's entertainer determined to marry Grace

Film Clips: May 2

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:22:00 CDT

Featuring interviews with activists and ground-zero footage from Madison, Forward documents the massive protests against Scott Walker that led to the recall campaign. Directed by Dusan Harminc and Matt Mullins, Forward includes

Film Clips: April 25

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:01:00 CDT

Because their son (Topher Grace) and his fiancée (Amanda Seyfried) have lied to the bride's ultraconservative mother (Susan Sarandon), the groom's long-divorced parents (Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton) are compelled to

Film Clips: April 18

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:09:00 CDT

Jim Grant (Robert Redford) is a successful activist attorney who drives his daughter to her suburban grade school in a Volvo station wagon. But the secrets he’s concealed for decades begin to surface when the FBI finally bust

Film Clips: April 11

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:04:00 CDT

Inspired by a true story, The Sapphires is an Australian comedy about an all-girl Aboriginal singing group from the ’60s (a Down Under Supremes) and their wily white manager. The Aborigines were treated like American Indians

Film Clips: April 4

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:41:00 CDT

Where Sam Raimi counted on wit, terror and a bit of gore to elevate his 1981 cult classic, the jokes are banished from this blood-splattered version as CGI effects climb aboard. As in the original, five young friends head

Film Clips: Mar. 28

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:46:00 CDT

The second chapter of Hasbro's G.I. Joe resets the franchise. It's more comical, more action-packed and jammed with action stars. Bruce Willis plays Original Joe, now General Colton, returning to the fray, and lending weapons

Film Clips: Mar. 21

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:52:00 CDT

This adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel seeks to spice up Princeton's application process with a moral dilemma. Tina Fey portrays Portia Nathan, a 38-year-old admissions officer gunning for promotion. Portia visits

Film Clips: Mar. 14

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:29:00 CDT

The Israeli secret service is justifiably known for its James Bond gadgets as well as its long reach. In the Oscar-nominated documentary The Gatekeepers, six former chiefs of Shin Bet are interviewed and discuss the frustrations of their job. After 1967, when Israel overran the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel's

Film Clips: Mar. 7

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:35:00 CST

A pair of New Yorkers unites for the purpose of seeking revenge. Colin Farrell appears as Victor, infiltrating a crime empire in order to get close to kingpin Alphonse (Terrence Howard), responsible for destroying Victor's

Film Clips: Feb. 21

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:26:00 CST

After being used as a patsy and unwittingly participating in a drug deal, the eldest son of John Matthews (Dwayne Johnson) is convicted and imprisoned. To free his boy, Matthews makes a bargain to infiltrate a drug cartel and

Film Clips: Feb. 14

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:24:00 CST

Adapted from Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's first novel in The Caster Chronicles, this supernatural love story is set in a small Southern town. High school senior Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) is bewitched by intriguing new girl

Film Clips: Feb. 5

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:29:00 CST

When his credit suddenly goes south, middle-aged Sandy (Jason Bateman) learns his identity has been stolen. He tracks down the culprit 2,000 miles away in Miami. She's Diana (Melissa McCarthy), living high on the hog. The cops have neither the staff nor the inclination to bring her in

Film Clips: Jan. 24

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:34:00 CST

Fifteen years after nearly being roasted and eaten by the witch who lured them into her gingerbread house, siblings Hansel and Gretel (Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton) have grown into attractive young adults fond of

Film Clips

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 CST

Unstinting in its graphic brutality, Gangster Squad is “inspired” by the take-down of mobster Mickey Cohen by the LAPD in the late 1940s. Josh Brolin plays the cast-iron Sgt. O’Mara, a lawman that makes Joe Friday look soft

Film Clips - January 17

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 CST

Film Clips - December 27

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 CST

Film Clips - 12/20-12/26

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 CST

Brief reviews of films currently in theaters.

Shepherd Express Film Clips - 12/13 - 12/19

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 CST

Brief reviews from this week's paper.

More Sparkle, Less Substance - Golden Compass on the silver screen

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 CST

Chris Weitz's adaptation of Philip Pullman's dark fantasy proves that all that glitters is not gold.

Love Over Time - Sex, romance, obsession

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST

What is love, anyway? In Love in the Time of Cholera, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez disentangles love from sex and casts a skeptical yet hopeful eye on the varieties of romance and the vagaries of marriage. Marquez investigates love at first sight, unrequited love and love that never dies, along with whether stability is better than happiness and whether men can ever remain faithful for long—or faithful in what sense?

Corn-fed America - The high cost of cheap food

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST

If we are what we eat, then most Americans are pure corn. The problem isn’t that we’re chowing down too many frozen or canned kernels. It’s the unhealthy and unnatural genetically engineered corn that factors into much of what we buy in supermarkets and is used to produce the processed foods that have pushed obesity and diabetes to record levels.