“The Heat” (R, 117 minutes, Fox): The team of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy looks on paper to be a sure-fire formula for comic gold; both gifted comediennes, they possess temperaments and physical packages diametrically opposed enough to recreate the kind of comedy made famous by such duos as Abbott and Costello or Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. In “The Heat,” they play mismatched law …
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“Oz the Great and Powerful” (PG, 130 minutes, Disney): Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is a sideshow conjurer with a traveling circus in 1905 Kansas, captured in the black-and-white, square-framed format of old-timey cinema. He’s forced to make a quick escape from the midway via hot-air balloon, at which point he’s caught in a cyclone that plops him down in a brightly colored, wide-screen world. If …
April 14
Slasher movies will be getting a new home with “Fangoria Presents,” a curated video-on-demand offering on cable, satellite and the Internet.