Christian Bale goes berserk

Holiday movie preview
I'm reposting the holiday movie preview that ran in today's paper here, for easy reference. There are at least two films I really want to see opening every weekend between now and the end of the year. And I'm finally...

The Shining Part 2?
A sequel to The Shining sounds like a terrible and contrived idea to me. I don't really care what Danny Torrance is up to as a fortysomething, or how his psychic powers have developed over the years. One of the...

Review: ''The Road''
The first thing you notice is that there's too much music. Nick Cave's intrusive score feels pushy and overstated - the opposite of the eerie silence Cormac McCarthy achieved in the hushed pages of his novel about a father and...

Review: ''Ninja Assassin''
You don't go into a movie called Ninja Assassin expecting a hell of a lot, but this shockingly disjointed and relentlessly dull picture can't even deliver the martial-arts kick its title so plainly promises. The latest misfire in the ongoing...

''New Moon'' already breaking box office records
According to early reports, The Twilight Saga: New Moon may have grossed nearly $24 million at 12:01 a.m. screenings around the country held this morning. If that number holds, New Moon would edge out the previous two midnight-screening record holders,...