Peculiar Reviewer

Julia Roberts has had a recent turn in her 25+ year career as America's Sweetheart - to a fearless performer. She was a force to be reckoned with in last year's Oscar nominated August: Osage County , even opposite Meryl Streep, Roberts was the leading lady who carried the film. For this, it was no shock to me that she gripped me once again as Dr. Emma Brookner in Ryan Murphy 's TV movie The Normal Heart , which premiered this week on HBO. Roberts plays a brave doctor (based on Dr. Linda Laubenstein) who suffers from polio, who, although glued to her wheelchair, spends her days as one of the only doctors researching and attempting to save gay men's lives in the early 1980s during the HIV-AIDS crisis. Based on Larry Kramer's 1985 Off-Broadway production, Kramer serves as screenwriter on this film version of The Normal Heart, which took director Ryan Murphy years to obtain the rights to.   Mark Ruffalo plays the lead as Ned Weeks, the openly gay New York writ...

It's a rough existence doing cheap tricks on the streets of New York, not being believed by the onlooker. At least it was for the illusionists in Now You See Me , until the four: Jesse Eisenberg (a cocky card conjurer), Woody Harrelson (a former TV mentalist who swindles people by keeping their dirty secrets for a price), Isla Fisher (who almost drowned filming her magic trick scene. What a trouper!), and Dave Franco (little bro peep of James Franco with a sleight of hand), all receive a mysterious tarot card to meet at an unknown building at the same time. The illusionists realize that they've all been handpicked by a master magician to perform an extravagant magic trick. They later land a gig at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas performing together in front of a large audience as "The Four Horsemen," which is invested by Michael Caine. The ultimate show is that the four pull off bank heists on stage and reward their audience with the money. Mark Ruffalo ...