Review: Birthmarked
There’s nothing wrong with the quirky, Canadian produced dramedy Birthmarked that can’t be fixed by ditching all of the quirk and making a film about a normal family with normal, but interesting problems.
DVD Tuesday: ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ and ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’
Arriving on DVD and Blu-ray this week: Noomi Rapace stars with Michael Nyqvist in the Scandinavian thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Richard Gere fights crime in Brooklyn’s Finest; and Colin Firth deals with loss and love in A Single Man.
Film Friday: ‘Daybreakers’ and ‘Leap Year’
Happy 2010, everyone, and welcome to a brand new year at the movies. New this week in theatres, Ethan Hawke stars as a remorseful vampire in the action-horror hybrid, Daybreakers. Also in theatres, Michael Cera stars in the adaptation of C. D. Payne’s famed novel, Youth In Revolt; while Amy Adams and Matthew Goode lead the romantic comedy, Leap Year.