Warner Bros.
6/12/13
At first blush Man of Steel is everything about Superman we've seen in movies before: the infant Kal-El's exodus to Earth from Krypton, his Midwest maturation as Clark Kent, his settling into his role as world protector from arch-villains. Marlon Brando always played his dad. Man of Steel does things differently, w …
After the success of Dolphin Tale, what can Winter the tailless bottlenose do for a movie encore?
She can give audiences a little Hope.
By Steve Persall
Times Movie Critic
Let's agree from the start that it's practically impossible for Pixar to make a bad animated movie. There's simply too much talent there, and too much Disney money supporting it, to result in junk.
The Bling Ring (R) (90 min.) — Our celebrity obsessions get a frisky poke but not the skewering they deserve in Sofia Coppola's movie, based on a true story. In 2008, a clique of Los Angeles teenagers feeling entitled to lives they envied started casing and burglarizing the homes of stars like Lindsay Lohan …
Much Ado About Nothing (PG-13) (107 min.) — Hey, Joss Whedon, you just unleashed upon the world The Avengers, the third-highest grossing movie of all time. What're you going to do now, go to Disney World?
The East (PG-13) (116 min.) — Debate sparked by recent National Security Agency leaks — is Edward Snowden a traitor or hero? — is coincidentally echoed in The East, the second collaboration between director Zal Batmanglij and his co-writer-star Brit Marling.
The March 22 premier of "Spring Breakers," a film shot in the Tampa Bay area, got us thinking about other movies that were filmed in our town. Check out a gallery of movies that called our hometown home -- at least for a little while.
