The Film Yap

There’s something for everyone with “The Dark Knight Rises,” starring Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway and the romantic comedy “Hope Springs” with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones on DVD & Blu-ray this week. Continue reading →

Worth watching just to see the way Meryl Streep nails the iconic Margaret Thatcher. There’s greatness in that performance, if not the movie that contains it. Continue reading →

See Meryl Streep in her Oscar-winning performance in “The Iron Lady” and Emile Hirsch battle “The Darkest Hour.” Continue reading →

A movie that contains greatness by America’s greatest living film actor, though it remains a fairly standard biopic. Continue reading →

Britain’s first and only Prime Minister is given a feature film, as well as a softer and better-looking side. Continue reading →

Joe and Chris talk about Harrison Ford and other big stars whose careers change gears as time creeps up. Continue reading →

“Rendition” — a chamber-piece cousin to the “Bourne” symphonies of destruction — continues Nick Rogers’ daily look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. Continue reading →

“The Manchurian Candidate” — Jonathan Demme’s freaky-deaky, tantalizingly jittery remake — continues Nick Rogers’ look back at the 365 best films of 2000-2009. Continue reading →

An inoffensive and sometimes fun movie that probably could have been more, but so what? Continue reading →

Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin make things ‘Complicated’ and Heath Ledger star in one doctor’s ‘Imaginarium’ on DVD this week. Continue reading →