Cinema under the tree
New York City is an island of little movie ecosystems on Christmas. Walk down W. 13th St. and there's nobody around, until you get to the Quad Cinema. Enough people milling around the lobbies of the Kips Bay or the Angelika you'd think they were giving something away. One of the movies that opened in NYC on the 25th is Last Chance Harvey, which I'd seen Tuesday evening Nov. 18, 2008 at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square, Auditorium #2, "The Kings," Part of the Variety Screening Series, 2 slithy toads. It's a star vehicle romance with Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman who had so much fun working together on Stranger Than Fiction (clearly more fun than I had watching the movie) that they yearned to work together so much that they chose this mediocre romantic comedy. It's the very definition of a 2 toad movie. It's not very good, but it does have star power and enough pleasant things going on that it's hard to regret spending 92 minutes with it. I lik...