“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” ambitiously undertakes to adapt Stieg Larsson’s enormously popular international best-seller. Those who have read the novel will appreciate the difficulty of reduci ... 

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If you didn’t get your flu shot last fall, you might want to consider it before renting Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion,” which is available this week on DVD. As the title indicates, there’s a whole ... 

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“Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” is the fourth in the movie versions of the popular TV series of yesteryear. For my money, it’s the best so far, mainly because it contains what its forerunners  ... 

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Just in time for your holiday viewing pleasure, “Apollo 18” arrives this week at your local DVD outlet. I’m kidding. Don’t confuse “Apollo 18” with “Apollo 13,” though they are both about moon miss ... 

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“Midnight in Paris,” the latest Woody Allen comedy, will be available this week on DVD. It was one of Allen’s increasingly rare box office successes, in part because its effect depends to some exte ... 

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“The Muppets” brings the creations of Jim Henson back to the big screen for the first time in years, a fact which the present effort plays upon constantly. Having first emerged on the national stag ... 

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I confess that I am one of the few people in America who has yet to read Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel, “The Help,” whose film version will be available this week on video. That ignorance p ... 

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