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Review: Spielberg's 'Tintin' is comic book fun Boston.com The movie, adapted from three of Herge's original stories, follows Tintin (played by Jamie Bell, who starred in the movie "Billy Elliot") as he joins forces with Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), a whisky-soaked seaman who becomes his friend and ally, ... See all stories on this topic »

PaulRom Reviews: Justice League #2 Comic Book Movie In my latest comic review, I tackle what's probably my most anticipated comic book in quite a while, Justice League #2. As I've said before, I really loved the first issue of the recently relaunched title, and it led to my preferring most of DC's ... See all stories on this topic » Comic Book Movie

DVD Reviews Tbo.com Diaz is funny, all right, but she is no miracle worker, so she can't erase the movie's slow spots or make it feel shorter than its 92-minute running time. "Bad Teacher" is as uneven as that wobbly desk you got stuck with in seventh grade. ... See all stories on this topic »

David Denby: "Margin Call" and "Anonymous" reviews. New Yorker The movie is a fictionalized account of a disastrous twenty-four hours in 2008, when "financial instruments" that had seemed solid dissolved into air. The rush of panic is halted, now and then, by moments of disbelief. Earlier in the movie, ... See all stories on this topic » New Yorker

Book review: 'The Cat's Table' by Michael Ondaatje Los Angeles Times (Which is why Anthony Minghella's 1996 movie of "The English Patient," with its epic, David O. Selznick-sized treatment, might have misled some people into assuming things about Ondaatje's storytelling that just aren't true. ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Reviews - New movies Opening Oct 21st 2011 Movies.ie Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, John Hawkes, Gwyneth Paltrow. THE PLOT: Returning from a Hong Kong business trip abroad - via a stopover affair in Chicago - feeling a little under the ... See all stories on this topic » Movies.ie

'Three Musketeers' 2011: Opens with a dull blade of reviews Examiner.com Unfortunately, in the few accounts written about the movie so far, it appears it is going to open to dull blade reviews. The movie stars Logan Lerman with the three musketeers played by Matthew MacFadyen (Aramis); Luke Evans (Athos); and Ray Stevenson ... See all stories on this topic »

Book review: 'Nightwoods' Los Angeles Times (Greg Martin, Random House / October 23, 2011) By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times Landscape played a big role in Charles Frazier's bestselling 1997 novel, "Cold Mountain," which was adapted into a movie of the same name. The book, its inside cover ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times