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In the crowded pantheon of comic-book-derived movie-franchise superheroes, Wolverine, as embodied by the muscular Australian song-and-dance man Hugh Jackman, always seemed kind of special. A grouchy, sensitive loner with retractable metal claws and apparently unretractable facial hair, Wolverine brooded and growled through the first three “X-Men” pictures, helping to supply them (or at least the first two) with welcome grace notes of rough humor and macho pathos. And now “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” with its ungainly, geeky title and its relatively trim (under-two-hour) running time, helps explain just what makes this guy so intriguing and unusual. More
If you’re making an animated movie about another planet and go to the trouble of doing it in 3-D, shouldn’t you give your extraterrestrial inhabitants an interesting, complex appearance? The beings of Terra, the planet in peril in the 3-D “Battle for Terra,” look a bit like flying spermatozoa. They’re supposed to be lovable — Terra has mastered the art of peaceful, prosperous existence, you see — but in truth they’re kind of creepy. More
The low-budget horror film “I Can See You” has a plot as old as the hills — or at least as old as “The Hills Have Eyes.” A group of city slickers heads out to the country: trouble, madness and some very nasty bodily harm ensue. Link