At the Movies

• FOR RENT: 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn " Part 1³ and more

  'THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN " PART 1' Everyone I know who legitimately enjoys the 'Twilight' series " and I wouldn't dare begrudge them that joy " regards the novel 'Breaking Dawn' as some kind of oddity, in which the story takes one weird turn after another. They undersold it. This is…

• ASPECT RADIO: 'The Artist,' 'Haywire' and Oscar nomination reactions

  

  Aspect Radio is back to talk about the Oscar nominations. Hosts Corey Craft and Ben Flanagan of al.com give their takes on Michel Hazanavicius's Academy Award-frontrunner “The Artist,” and talk about its competition in the major Oscar nominees. They also return to Soderbergh-land with…

• FOR RENT: 'Drive,' 'The Thing' and more

  'DRIVE' Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive' is like a bolt of lightning in the midst of bland, standard action fare that permeates multiplexes these days, an intoxicating, breathless concoction of '80s action movies and austere European filmmaking that breathes new life into a stagnant crime saga. No…

• FOR RENT: 'Paranormal Activity 3,' '50/50,' 'Real Steel' and more

  'PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3' The spookhouse thrills of the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise are given a retro twist in 'Paranormal Activity 3,' a fun and quite frightening prequel to the previous films, set in the '80s, that expands on the mythology established in its predecessors and adds a few new…

• We ain't one at a timin' here. We're mass communicatin'!

  If you like the content on this blog, check out my new Twitter feed, @CoreyTuskMovies. Follow that account for a reasonably constant stream of movie thoughts and so forth. We'll have a real good time at the movies – together. (Though I don't tweet during movies. I guess I just mean we'll have …

• 'Hugo' leads Academy Award nominations

  If you'll look back at my predictions from yesterday, you'll see that I was wrong about a good many things, but I don't think many people could have predicted some of the bonkers choices thrown at us by the Academy Awards nominations this morning. Stuff that most people probably couldn't have…

• Predicting tomorrow's Academy Award nominations

  Bright and early tomorrow morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will finally announce their nominees for the upcoming Academy Awards, meaning we can just go ahead and crown “The Artist” our best picture of the year and move on to next year. What? It's not that cut and …

• FOR RENT: 'The Ides of March,' 'Abduction' and more

  'THE IDES OF MARCH' The fact that modern American politics are dirty shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but that seems to be the primary message of George Clooney's latest film as director, 'The Ides of March.' While the film isn't unentertaining, its premise seems to suggest something akin to the…

• FOR RENT: 'Moneyball,' 'Killer Elite,' 'What's Your Number?'

  'MONEYBALL' From Bennett Miller, the director of 'Capote,' and Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, the writers of 'The Social Network' and 'Schindler's List,' comes this sports movie about … yeah, a sports movie with that pedigree. Before you feint too much surprise, know that 'Moneyball' is…

• MOVIE REVIEW: 'Melancholia'

  Lars Von Trier's 'Melancholia' is a film I am told must absolutely be seen on the big screen, which I did not, because prior to Jan. 10's Bama Art House Film Series screening at the Bama Theatre, the film has not played on a big screen in Tuscaloosa. It has, however, played on demand for some…