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HUGO (PG) There is a reason director Martin Scorsese's 3-D stunner "Hugo" leads the Oscars with 11 nominations - it's a dynamite movie that is one of those rare gems worthy of the higher 3-D ticket price. "Hugo" was Scorsese's first family film and his first foray into 3-D. About an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) living in a Paris train station, "Hugo" has enough whimsy for younger moviegoers and enough complexity for grownups. The two teen actors playing the leads - Chloe Grace Moretz and Asa Butterfield are delights. Ben Kingsley is terrific as always and Sasha Baron Cohen lightens up the proceedings as a bumbling train station inspector who rounds up unattended children. "Hugo" received Oscar nods today for best picture, best director, visual effects, film editing, costumes, original score, sound editing, sound mixing, cinematography, art direction and adapted screenplay for writer John Logan.
ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG-13) Katherine Heigl's decision to swap her scrubs on "Grey's Anatomy" for a lucrative movie career is looking about as bad as trading Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson. As proof, I offer this alleged comedy based on Janet Evanovich's novels in which she plays a sexy bounty hunter on the tail of her high school crush. It's so bad the studio won't even prescreen it for critics.
HUGO (PG) There is a reason director Martin Scorsese's 3-D stunner "Hugo" leads the Oscars with 11 nominations - it's a dynamite movie that is one of those rare gems worthy of the higher 3-D ticket price. "Hugo" was Scorsese's first family film and his first foray into 3-D. About an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) living in a Paris train station, "Hugo" has enough whimsy for younger moviegoers and enough complexity for grownups. The two teen actors playing the leads - Chloe Grace Moretz and Asa Butterfield are delights. Ben Kingsley is terrific as always and Sasha Baron Cohen lightens up the proceedings as a bumbling train station inspector who rounds up unattended children. "Hugo" received Oscar nods today for best picture, best director, visual effects, film editing, costumes, original score, sound editing, sound mixing, cinematography, art direction and adapted screenplay for writer John Logan.
ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG-13) Katherine Heigl's decision to swap her scrubs on "Grey's Anatomy" for a lucrative movie career is looking about as bad as trading Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson. As proof, I offer this alleged comedy based on Janet Evanovich's novels in which she plays a sexy bounty hunter on the tail of her high school crush. It's so bad the studio won't even prescreen it for critics.
