Ron Phillips
From left, Luis Guzman, Vanessa Hudgens, Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson and Michael Caine.
Michael Caine must be a jolly good sport. Some time during the making of "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," a director had to say to him, "Sir Michael Caine, this is the part when you clamber atop a bee the size of a small plane, hold on tight and pretend to fly over the island." (Today)
Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams star in "The Vow."
Must have been a false memory planted by previews or TV commercials. I mistakenly thought "The Vow" was a romantic comedy, but it is, in fact, a romantic drama. It shuns silliness and grand, Garry Marshall-style gestures for quieter moments between Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. She plays Paige, a sculptor, and he's Leo, owner of a small recording studio in Chicago. (Today)
From Renaissance cameos to cinematic ones, the art of the miniature is a many-splendored thing. Shorts in film -- as in underwear -- are expected to contain something animated or organically active. (Today)
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Denzel Washington in 'Safe House.'
"You crushed my windpipe," the raspy-voiced CIA operative reminds his prisoner. "You locked me in the trunk," he counters, as if one excuses the other in "Safe House." (Today)
"The Barber of Birmingham" looks at civil rights battles.
A Pakistani woman named Zakia, weary of a husband who was an abusive drug addict and alcoholic, went to court to divorce him. "So you want to divorce me? I'll make a spectacle out of you for the world to see," he said, right before he threw battery acid in her face. (Today)