LITTLE ROCK — Several new movies get a Christmas-day release.
Deadfall R Everything that could go wrong for siblings on the run from a casino heist pretty much does. With Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Sissy Spacek, Kris Kristofferson; directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
(93 minutes) Opens today Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel PG-13 Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland takes a documentary look at the so-called “Empress of Fashion,” who launched the career of Twiggy, advised Jackie Onassis and worked for 25 years as the fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaaruntil becoming editor in chief at Vogue. (92 minutes) Opens today Django Unchained R Director Quentin Tarantino’s double take on race relations in the pre-Civil War South combined with an homage to spaghetti Westerns, involving an abused slave who hooks up with a German-born bounty hunter to track down a pair of murderous brothers, then ends up battling a treacherous organization that uses slaves for gladiatorial contests. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx. (141 minutes) Opens today Les Miserables PG-13 Long awaited, what may be the world’s biggest stage musical ÿnally comes to the big screen. Dogged 19thcentury French Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) stays for nearly 20 years on the trail of ex-convict-turned-model-citizen Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) as revolution brews in the streets of Paris.With Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried;
directed by Tom Hooper. (157 minutes) Opens today Parental Guidance PG Billy Crystal plays a grandfather who finds that his and his wife’s (Bette Midler) old-school ideas of child rearing conflict with 21st-centur y problems when baby-sitting their three grandkids. With Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott; directed by Andy Fickman.
(144 minutes) Opens today Silver Linings Playbook R Bradley Cooper plays a guy with depression who,after having spent eight months in a state institution, ÿnds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert De Niro).
He wants to reunite with his wife; they want him to get back on his feet - and share their obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles.
With Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Tucker, John Ortiz, Julia Stiles; directed by David O. Russell. (120 minutes) Opens today
Style, Pages 31 on 12/25/2012