Resident Evil has fun with 3D, The Master makes fun of religion Compare the unoriginal use of 3D in Hugo–standard diorama compositions with objects poking out toward the viewer–to Paul W.S. Anderson’s astonishingly lively 3D compositions in Resident Evil: Retribution where heroine Alice (Milla Jovovich) fights the Umbrella Corporation’s viral experiments that produced a plague turning mankind into zombies. Anderson’s images 
In the arts, fall isn’t a season of rebirth but the season of double-down. It’s when producers and publicists join hands to promote their latest wares. In New York, fall arts take on the illusion of rebirth because of the break in summer humidity (and those who are privileged with summer homes come back to 
Compare the unoriginal use of 3D in Hugo–standard diorama compositions with objects poking out toward the viewer–to Paul W.S. Anderson’s astonishingly lively 3D compositions in Resident Evil: Retribution where heroine Alice (Milla Jovovich) fights the Umbrella Corporation’s viral experiments that produced a plague turning mankind into zombies. Anderson’s images vivify the entire expanse of the 
It’s been reported that filmmaker Ira Sachs originally intended his new non-romance Keep the Lights On to be titled “Shame.” But that title was already taken by British artist Steve McQueen’s silly movie about “sex addiction.” Sachs isn’t silly. All his films deal with sex but not in McQueen’s trendy, fraudulent way. Sachs, a personal 
Cheer 10 Years first of all because it is not “dark” or “edgy.” Its premise about a ten-year high school reunion isn’t automatically promising but the genial approach by writer-director Jamie Linden and his upbeat cast becomes affecting. This is not a tragic view of early life failings, pre-mature nostalgia–or its self-protective opposite, pre-mature cynicism. 
Film Forum’s current retrospective series, “The French Old Wave” (through Sept. 13), continues with more classic films and film history that you need to catch up with in order to realize—in this awful era of comic- book frivolity—how great cinema can be. Though billed as a tribute to the “quality” films that Truffaut and Godard, 
Harvey Weinstein called for a summit meeting on movie violence soon after the Dark Knight Rises massacre. It hasn’t happened yet but Harvey’s word becomes cultural law. So, instead, The Weinstein Company this week releases John Hillcoat’s Lawless, the most promiscuously violent movie since The Dark Knight Rises. If you go to see Lawless, duck. About 
Dax Shepard, the lead actor, co-writer and co-director (with David Palmer) of Hit & Run, aims for the bleachers. He’s made a lowest common denominator comedy with a road movie premise about Charlie, a guy who leaves his witness protection location in rural California to transport his girlfriend Annie to a job interview in Los 
When Whitney Houston sings “His Eye is on the Sparrow” in Sparkle, her performance is unexpectedly good, stirring gospel. Playing the mother of three talented daughters who have formed a singing group that unravels the family, Houston’s heartbroken recitation also seems to be meta-cinematic. Drawing on her character’s professional disappointment, she testifies to something beyond the 
