(CNS) – 162 minutesIn theaters December 18, 2009Rating: PG-13, Science fiction thrillerAt the risk of damning with faint praise, let me start by pegging Avatar the best 3-D movie ever made. That said, however, we true movie lovers could easily live wit…

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic100 minutesIn theaters December 18, 2009Rating: PG, DramaTo the Victoria go the spoils. Or at least the throne.She was England’s youngest and oldest queen, her reign lasting from 1837, when she was 18, for…

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic133 minutesIn theaters December 11, 2009Rating: PG-13, DramaNelson Mandela emerged from prison during the collapse of apartheid in South Africa and then became the President — the first black president –…

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic113 minutesIn theaters December 11, 2009Rating: PG-13, DramaThe Me in Me and Orson Welles takes a back seat to the Him.Him being Welles, that is, the temperamantal artiste whom we get a glimpse of through …

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic95 minutesIn theaters December 11, 2009Rating: G, Animated musicalAs if further proof were needed that we live in the Golden Age of Animation, along comes The Princess and the Frog.Instant classic.With com…

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic109 minutesIn theaters December 4, 2009Rating: R, ComedyWhere Up in the Air is concerned, there’s nothing to be up in the air about: this one soars.Movies don’t come much more timely and topical than this …

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic110 minutesIn theaters December 4, 2009Rating:R. DramaBrothers tweaks the proverb: all’s unfair in love and war.Brothers is a domestic melodrama based on a 2004 Danish film (Brodre) about two siblings, the…