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Tom Long: Review: Creepy 3-D 'A Christmas Carol' deserves a lump of coal

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:12:00 EST

Want the creeps for Christmas? Then check out the latest version of "A Christmas Carol. It follows the ugliest Scrooge ever conceived through all manner of nightmarish encounters with his past, present and future. If you want to make sure your four 4-year-old doesn't sleep for a year, bring him or her to this movie.

Review: Clooney has paranormal fun in 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

George Clooney is a fun guy. Sure he makes serious movies -- "Michael Clayton," the upcoming "Up in the Air" -- but he also seems to understand the value of a good laugh. "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is a good laugh.

Review: 'Fourth Kind' is laughably third-rate

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

"The Fourth Kind" is the third best paranormal film currently in theaters, running way behind the comic "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and the cheapie phenom "Paranormal Activity." Apparently Hollywood thinks we're interested in this stuff. And we might be if, in the case of "The Fourth Kind," it was a lot less hokey.

Review: 'Coco' biopic looking threadbare

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

If someone were to make a parody of French biographical films, it might look a great deal like "Coco Before Chanel" -- pompous, incomplete, a woman torn between two lovers, tragic death and many, many cigarettes smoked.

'Pelham' is a runaway train ride

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

More on this and other movies new and notable on DVD this week.

Catch early view of 'The Road'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Viggo Mortensen plays a man trying to lead his son through the dangerous desolation to some semblance of safety in "The Road," November's featured film at Tom Long's Reel Talk, showing at 7 p.m. Nov. 19.

Windsor brings part of film festival to Detroit Film Theatre

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

TheWindsor International Film Festival is rolling... but not in Windsor.

Tale of Scrooge takes digital turn

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

'I love terrifying children," reveals Jim Carrey, who plays Scrooge, the original holiday-hating miser who undergoes a transformation in Robert Zemeckis' faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin to co-host Oscars

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:32:00 EST

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are taking on the Oscars. The two Hollywood veterans will share hosting duties at the 82nd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday.

Tom Long: Review: Polished 'United' scores as human-interest story

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00:00 EST

Some of the best sports films have little to do with sports. Such is the case with "The Damned United," which is based on the true story of hotshot soccer manager Brian Clough (Michael Sheen) taking over the reins of his archrival, the perennial powerhouse Leeds United.