A feast for fright fans, “Crimson Peak” boasts kinky twists, scary monsters and images that will make your head spin.Įxtras: featurettes, deleted scenes and commentary by del Toro. The plot sounds like something out of Hammer Horror but del Toro pulls out all of the stops to make this saga his own. Mia Wasikowska stars as a heiress who allows herself to be swept away by a dashing inventor (Tom Hiddleston) even though his freaky sister (Jessica Chastain) is clearly deranged. This is Hollywood history at is most engrossing.Ĭrimson Peak (2015, Universal, R, $30) Guillermo del Toro’s best movie since “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a gorgeous gothic pulse-pounder largely set inside a crumbling Victorian mansion. ![]() But Trumbo, much to his credit, cleverly defied the blacklist by writing under assumed names, even managing to win Oscars for “Roman Holiday” and “The Brave One.” The performances are reason enough to check this one out, with the Oscar-nominated Cranston scoring in the title role and Helen Mirren stealing every scene she’s in as the ultraconservative troublemaker Hedda Hopper. Trumbo (2015, Universal, R, $30) A victim of the Hollywood blacklist, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) went to jail for 11 months for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is a warts-and-all portrait of the tech genius and thanks to Fassbender’s sly performance, Aaron Sorkin’s probing screenplay and Danny Boyle’s flashy direction, Jobs emerges as a visionary with grand ideas but deep, deep flaws. Within each time frame, Jobs (Oscar-nominated Michael Fassbender) interacts with the same associates and family members, including innovator Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), marketing whiz Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet) and daughter Lisa, whom he initially tries to disown. Steve Jobs (2015, Universal, R, $30) Set in the hours leading up to three of the Apple co-founder’s product launches (in 1984, 1988, and 1998), this biopic is as original as the man it is chronicling. “Black Mass” takes its sweet time but once it grabs you, it won’t let go. Aided by Depp’s menacing turn, Cooper focuses on the unholy alliance between FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) and Bulger, who plays the Feds for fools by pretending to be an informer. Rather than try to outflash Scorsese, Cooper takes a sober, low-key approach that, for the most part, works beautifully. ![]() ![]() Black Mass (2015, Warner, R, $30) How do you top Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed"? That’s the challenge director Scott Cooper faced as he unreeled the story of James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp), the same notorious Boston gangster who inspired the earlier film.
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