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...when is the Sam Worthington musical coming out? Have you ever heard me sing? I'm like a cross between Bob Dylan and a cat. I cannot sing, mate...
...Grace Brewer she is brittle, crazed with grief and absolutely unable to cope, unlike her math professor husband Allen (Pierce Brosnan), who would like her to at least allow the maid to pick their son's dirty socks up off the floor. (Writer/director Shana Feste has made the Brewers rich, and you can almost hear her pitch to the studio, filled with longing for the profound: "See, they had everything, but now, without Bennett, nothing.") All the Sarandon grief moves are there: the defiant head lift, the wide, wet eyes, the clenched fists, the accusations hurled at Allen...
Aaron Johnson doesn't get to make much of an impression as Bennett (watch for his breakthrough role later this month in Kick-Ass) but if you could picture the girl you'd most like to turn up on your doorstep, announcing she's pregnant with your dead son's child, it would be Mulligan's Rose. Despite an absent father and a mother in rehab, Rose is poised, mature and smart enough to have won a full scholarship to Barnard. This movie lacks the energy and verve of An Education, the coming-of-age drama that catapulted the British...
...earned $43.7 million - more than enough to win the box-office race but considerably less than the opening, the same week last year, of DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens. The dip may be attributed to a lack of stars in the voice roles or to the more traditional, Disney-feature-like story and tone, but it could also be that more 3-D screens would have given Dragon more firepower. (Watch TIME's video "The 3-D Experience...
...Cash of the Titans The rush to 3-D began in earnest early last year, with much tub-thumping about how A-list directors like Steven Spielberg and James Cameron were testing the format. The box office verified that interest: four of the top dozen domestic hits of 2009 were shown in 3-D. Three were animated features: Up, Monsters vs Aliens and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The fourth film: Avatar. James Cameron's eco-epic, which quickly became the No. 1 moneymaker in movie history, proved a couple of things about 3-D. In the right hands...