Nolan will introduce the new scenes, along with stars Christian Bale, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Gary Oldman. The show itself will serve as a sort of summer movie preview, with plenty of big names plugging summer releases, starting with its host, comedian-actor-bad boy Russell Brand of the upcoming musical "Rock of Ages." Other appearances include "That's My Boy" father-son duo Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, "Magic Mike" hunks Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey, "The Amazing Spider-Man" co-stars Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield, and "Ted" pairing Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg. Nominations for the show, which airs live on MTV Sunday, June 3, at 9 p.m., were announced May 1, with "The Hunger Games" and "Bridesmaids" setting the pace with eight nods each. "The Dark Knight Rises" ... Continue reading →

The French cop thriller "Polisse," which follows the sex crimes unit, earned a full four stars from Globe critic Wesley Morris, who writes, "All the tears I shed were hard-earned. So were all the laughing and clapping and eye-covering. In each case, it was involuntary." A Japanese film, "I Wish," about two brothers divided by their parents' divorce, gives a realistic portrayal of childhood courtesy of its two lead actors, who are actual brothers. Morris writes, "With a director like Hirokazu Koreeda, you never feel a childhood being remembered or a quaint longing for a lost moment in time. Children are simply people. They have inner lives and worries and desires." Another foreign entry, Lebanon's "Where Do We Go Now?," focuses on tensions between Christians ... Continue reading →

How can women ever get men to stop killing each other? That was the question that prompted Aristophanes to write “Lysistrata” in 411 BC and — the problem still being with us 2,500 years later — that is the question that bedevils “Where Do We Go Now?,” a rambunctious Lebanese comedy with a core of blackest sorrow. Where the Athenian playwright came up with a single novel response (no sex for anyone until the boys behave), director-co-writer-actress Nadine Labaki has her cast of village women throw different ideas against the wall to see what sticks. There are laughs, too, but they stick in your throat.Labaki was last heard from with 2007’s “Caramel,” a wisely sexy character comedy set in a Beirut beauty shop. “Where Do ... Continue reading →

Fans excited to see Channing Tatum team up with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Bruce Willis in the next installment of the "G.I. Joe" films will have to wait quite a bit longer. Just short of its planned June 29 release, Paramount Pictures has pushed back the second film, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," to March 2013. The most prominent factor leading to the delay was the studio's desire to release the movie in 3-D, Paramount's executive vice president of publicity Katie Martin Kelley told the AP. Director Jon M. Chu, who is no stranger to 3-D with films like last year's "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" and 2010's "Step Up 3D," told the Hollywood Reporter that Paramount initially didn't give him enough time for the added ... Continue reading →

For all the millions of dollars spent on digital astonishments in “Men in Black 3,” the film’s most remarkable special effect is an analog one. It’s the carbon-based Josh Brolin, who plays a younger version of Tommy Lee Jones’s Agent K with an uncanny replication of the older actor’s bearing and vocal mannerisms. Brolin’s performance is funny, masterful, confident, and more than a little unsettling. If one human being can sample another, that’s what’s going on here.The rest of “Men in Black 3” is about as good as one could hope for from an unnecessary sequel that’s a decade late to the party. The film’s opening act is a painful forced march that reintroduces the main characters — alien-containment agents K (Jones) and J (Will ... Continue reading →

Is the third "Men in Black" installment overkill? In his review of "Men in Black 3," Globe film critic Ty Burr calls the movie an "unnecessary sequel that's a decade late to the party." That's not to say it's bad, thanks to Josh Brolin's spot-on Tommy Lee Jones impression, playing a younger version of Agent K. Burr writes, "Brolin's performance is funny, masterful, confident, and more than a little unsettling. If one human being can sample another, that's what's going on here." Of course, the rebooting of profitable franchises is common practice in Hollywood and considering that the first two movies grossed more than $1 billion worldwide combined, the motivation for "MIB 3" is clear. Besides, some would even say that we can never have ... Continue reading →

\ The trailer for upcoming film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was released, giving fans a taste of the A-list cast in Baz Luhrmann's indulgently opulent movie. With Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, the trailer sets a modern tone with the help of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild" and Jack White's cover of U2's "Love is Blindness." What do you think of the Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" trailer? About Movie Nation Movie news, reviews, and more. Contributors Ty Burr is a film critic with The Boston Globe. Wesley Morris is a film critic with The Boston Globe. Mark Feeney is an arts writer for The Boston ... Continue reading →

Aliens, explosions, Will Smith. Summer movie season has arrived. Once "the king of summer movies," Smith is reviving a franchise with "Men in Black 3," one of two wide releases this week to pair with a few smaller openings. �Men in Black 3� (PG-13) In this third installment of the "MIB" franchise, Agent J (Smith) time-travels back to the 1960s to stop evil aliens. Josh Brolin steps in with his best Tommy Lee Jones impression as a young Agent K. �Chernobyl Diaries� (R) Young tourists tempt fate by visiting the area where the nuclear reactor workers once lived. Get ready for mutants. �Polisse� (NR) This French film by director-writer-actress Ma�nn won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year. It may have some ... Continue reading →

About Movie Nation Movie news, reviews, and more. Contributors Ty Burr is a film critic with The Boston Globe. Wesley Morris is a film critic with The Boston Globe. Mark Feeney is an arts writer for The Boston Globe. Janice Page is movies editor for The Boston Globe. Tom Russo is a regular correspondent for the Movies section and writes a weekly column on DVD releases. Nicole Cammorata is a producer for Arts & Entertainment and Things to Do at Boston.com. Katie McLeod is Boston.com's features editor. Rachel Raczka is a producer for Lifestyle and Arts & Entertainment at Boston.com. Glenn Yoder is an Arts & Entertainment producer at Boston.com. Mawuse Ziegbe is an Arts & Entertainment producer at Boston.com. Browse this blog by category Continue reading →

‘Darling Companion” is about and for an audience that really doesn’t get enough respect: women of a certain age who love their dogs too much. It’s far from a great movie — an overwritten, underplotted vanity project that’s a distant echo of what director Lawrence Kasdan (“The Big Chill,” “Grand Canyon”) could do in his prime. But it has Diane Keaton, and that’s enough.Keaton plays Beth, the well-to-do wife of an officious Denver back doctor named Joseph (Kasdan regular Kevin Kline). One daughter (Lindsay Sloane) is married with kids, the other (Elisabeth Moss, of “Mad Men”) is single but not for long, and Beth is going crazy without anyone to live for. Enter Freeway (played by a charmingly shaggy mixed-breed named Kasey), who is scooped ... Continue reading →