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‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on March 14, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Let’s see if we can go through this entire review without making any puns or other kind of wordplay about magic as we discuss “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.” Seek... -
‘Warm Bodies,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Jonathan Levine’s “Warm Bodies” won the weekend box-office race for a couple of reasons. It’s a romantic comedy that works, for one thing. For another, it’s a smart reworking... -
‘Gangster Squad,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on January 8, 2013 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com You get the feeling that Ruben Fleischer would have been happy to make an homage to the gangster movies of the 1940s (filtered through both a 1970s and a... -
‘California Solo,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on November 27, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com The marvelous Scottish actor Robert Carlyle has been a fixture in films large and small for 20-plus years, but no one has written a part for him that gives... -
‘The Manzanar Fishing Club,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on September 13, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com It seems like an innocuous title – until you realize (or learn) that “The Manzanar Fishing Club,” a new documentary by Cory Shiozaki opening today in limited release, deals... -
‘Wallander: The Revenge,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on June 2, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com The first “Wallander” novels by Henning Mankell were published in Sweden in the early 1990s. There have been Wallander movies and TV series in Sweden, as well as a... -
‘Lovely Molly,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com “Lovely Molly” is a direct descendant of “The Blair Witch Project.” Aside from the fact that it incorporates the same handheld, shaky-cam, faux-doc technique as that 1999 sensation, it... -
‘The Iron Lady,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 27, 2011 | 1 CommentHollywoodandFine.com The focus isn’t even on her. We’re in a grungy British superette (as we used to call them in the Midwest) and some raucous music is playing loudly as... -
‘My Week with Marilyn’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com It’s hard now to conceive of just how huge a star Marilyn Monroe was at the peak of her fame in the mid-1950s. Take Lady Gaga, multiply her by...