("The Other Boleyn Girl")
Wondering which new release to check out this weekend? amNewYork movie critic Mina Hochberg is here to help:
Chop Shop
Once called a "euphemism for blight" by Mayor Bloomberg, Willets Point, Queens, is for all intents and purposes the star of Ramin Bahrani's "Chop Shop." Nicknamed the "Iron Triangle" for its high density of junkyards and auto shops, this 61-acre neighborhood in the shadow of Shea Stadium is, in real estate terms, an eyesore that many mayors (including Bloomberg) have tried to earmark for redevelopment. Read more...
The Other Boleyn Girl
Heaving bosom alert! This story of Anne Boleyn's rise from the ranks of minor nobility and her subsequent fall to the chopping block is a sweeping Tudor soap opera, from the bethrothals and betrayals to the chin-stroking villain.
Natalie Portman plays Anne, the doomed coquette, with Scarlett Johansson as her plain sister, Mary. (In Hollywood, "plain" is conveyed by denuding a face of all makeup.) Read more...
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