Melanie Laurent

With so many remakes, sequels and familiar subjects hitting theaters between now and Labor Day, this year's summer movie season should be dubbed as "deja viewed." There are sequels by the numbers: "Smurfs 2," "Red 2," "Kick-Ass 2," "Despicable Me 2,"...

17th Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Fest April 4-15, hjff.org.   Two documentaries are the highlights at the 17th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival, which will be bringing 21 films related to Jewish culture and history to theaters...

It was hard to pick a list of 10 best movies in 2010, as it was a really bad year. It was a lot easier this year and I liked so many movies, I thought I’d cheat a little. It’s 2011, why not pick the Top 11 of 2011? I put a few foreign films...

"Beginners" houses: In director Mike Mills' "Beginners," Christopher Plummer portrays Hal, a 75-year-old father who comes out of the closet late in life -- and lives in the Lovell Health House, the Modernist masterpiece by architect Richard Neutra....

He does it through flashbacks, but veteran talent Christopher Plummer gives a typically superb performance in writer-director Mike Mills' seriocomic tale of a man (Ewan McGregor) recalling his deceased father (Plummer), who decided to come out of the...

We meet Oliver as he is cleaning up his father's bungalow and dumping Dad's prescription pill supply down the toilet.  His father has died, and we can see in Ewan McGregor's face that this is but the latest blow to a guy who hasn't been happy in a very...

For a July 4 holiday weekend, there is much to choose from but not much that offers a compelling argument that you see it. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” may be an improvement over the second film, but it's still the silliest, emptiest of...

Plowing through the latest edition of Production Weekly, I see nary a Florida film shoot on the slate, which was my reaon for checking it. We aren't giving away money like Louisiana and Georgia, so there's still a lot more production in those states. A...

The Franco-Russian farce “The Concert” is a caper comedy in which the caper involves a bunch of politically outcast musicians passing themselves off as a famous Soviet era orchestra. Their goals are simple — to finagle a trip to Paris,...

Friday December 8, 2000      "The Bridge," starring Carole Bouquet and Gerard Depardieu, who was co-director with the film's composer, Frederic Aubertin, is a quiet, powerful tale of adultery.      You cannot watch this sophisticated, understated film...

"Avatar" trounced the competition at Thursday's Saturn Awards, winning all 10 of its bids, including best sci-fi film, the four acting prizes for leads Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana and supporting players Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver, and two...

Publicly, the movie that the Weinstein Co. is pushing hard for the best picture Oscar is "The King's Speech," which stars Colin Firth as Britain's King George VI trying to overcome a nervous stammer. But that notoriously sneaky Harvey Weinstein has a...