New York mid-December always smells vaguely of pine and peppermint, despite our recent springtime temperatures. Bring that cozy holiday feeling with you into the cineplex for a couple of new feel-good holiday movies. Will Smith will tug at your heart strings big time as the struggling dad trying to become a stockbroker in The Pursuit of Happyness. Set in the '70s in San Francisco, Smith plays Chris Gardner, a door to door medical equipment salesman......

The Devil may wear prada and Superman may wear tight red briefs but what's really should get you hot and bothered on a long holiday weekend is Amy Sedaris in prosthetic teeth and high rise pants. Wooh-wee, that's some sexy stuff. No matter how you felt about Lauren Weisberger's thinly veiled roman a clef about life in the Vogue trenches, you have to admit that the preview for The Devil Wears Prada movie with Meryl......

Let the floodgates open. A bounty of movie gifts arrive just in time for Christmas and Hannukah, but it's only fair to warn you that many may resemble fruitcake. As the days tick down toward the end of the year -- also known as the deadline for Oscar eligibility -- and people start taking time off for the holidays, distributors are squeezing new releases into theaters trying to grab a piece of the box office......

Now that we're into November, awards season kicks off in earnest with big new releases such as Chicken Little. Wait. Sorry. Our mistake. After what seems like more than a year of trailers, the sky is finally falling for Disney's big animation experiment, but we actually meant Jarhead. Somehow, even arriving with an amazing pedigree that includes Oscar winning American Beauty director Sam Mendes, a best selling memoir as source material, and stars such as......

September is generally considered a slow time for the movie industry, but Gothamist sees plenty of interesting cinematic diversions, both new and old, on the horizon for New Yorkers. There are several new releases this week, and while the widest opener among them -- The Man -- looks like a big bust, some of the smaller releases such as Keane and Touch the Sound seem enticing. But as is often the case, the city's alternative......

- Tonight, Brooklyn Bridge Park presents Mermaids, about a pre-shoplifting Wynona Ryder and Cher in an unusual mother-daughter relationship; Wynona resents her free-style, flirty mother and intends to become a nun (despite being a neurotic Jew), that is, until she meets the hunkster caretaker of the local convent. This pretty amusing chick-flick with one too many catchy sing-alongs ("If You Want to Be Happy" etc) begins at sunset. - Clearview’s Chelsea Cinema resurrects the......

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