Beauty and the Beast 3-D
(Animated/Family, G, 84 minutes)
That "tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme" returns to the screen, now in 3-D. But "Beauty and the Beast," the greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen's great musicals, hardly needs this sort of sprucing up. But there's marvelous new depth of field to the images - flowers or rain or snow in the foreground - in many scenes. Details from the background pop out more and 3-D gives Gaston's riotous bar brawl an in-your-face quality.
Rating: Four stars
Info for Parents: Rated G
Contraband
(Remake/Action, R, 110 minutes)
Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal, Chris is forced back into running contraband to settle Andy's debt. With only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to navigate a criminal network of drug lords, cops and hitmen before his wife (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.
Rating: Not yet reviewed
Info for Parents: Rated R for violence, pervasive language and brief drug use.
