Film Shorts: December 2007

Quick takes on new releases

By D.K. Holm

Film critic D.K. Holm offers up witty (and pithy) analyses on a handful of this month's new theater releases...

The Golden Compass The first of Philip Pullman’s Satanic children’s books finally comes to the screen, with Nicole Kidman as the villain... -->

The Walker Paul Schrader concludes his trilogy of profiles of modern man with this tale of a gay man (Woody Harrelson) who squires D.C. society ladies...

I Am Legend Will Smith ends up as the last man on Earth...or is he?

The Kite Runner Based on the bestselling book, a tale of cultural clash in Afghanistan...

<-- Charlie Wilson’s War The comical adventures of a Texas congressman, with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts...

The Bucket List Rob Reiner directs Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in a tearjerker about two cancer victims who head off to fulfill a “do before I die” list...

Cleaner Samuel L. Jackson cleans up crime scenes until one day he finds himself involved in a crime...

National Treasure: Book of Secrets Nicholas Cage returns as Indiana Jones lite to solve (better late than never) the Lincoln assassination...

P.S., I Love You Romantic comedy in which Gerald Butler leaves his widow Hilary Swank phone messages from beyond the grave...

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Judd Apatow returns to the screen to mock Hollywood’s favorite genre, the biopic...

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Round two of the continuing battle between the big screen’s scariest monsters...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The trailers seem unwilling to admit that this Tim Burton-Johnny Depp film is a musical... -->

Persepolis Based on the graphic novel, an animated tale of a young woman growing up in Iran, then Europe…