Movie Picks: Clooney, and 'Zombies', and Nicholas Sparks, oh my!
» READ MORE: Hail, Caesar!
Three stars
Josh Brolin is a movie studio fixer, keeping his stars in line and their scandals out of the press in the Coen Brothers' early-'50s Hollywood lark. With George Clooney as a dashing but dim screen idol, Scarlett Johansson as a water ballet star, Alden Ehrenreich as a singing cowboy and, in various slight but amusing roles, Ralph Fiennes, Jonal Hill, Tilda Swinton and Channing Tatum. PG-13 (adult themes) — Steven Rea
» READ MORE: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Three stars
Jane Austen's novel gets zombified in this adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's book that was originally published by Philadelphia publishing house Quirk Books. Lizzy Bennet and Mr. Darcy begrudgingly fall in love just as they do in the original novel, except this time there's a zombie scourge attacking London. PG-13 (violence) — Nick Vadala
» READ MORE: The Choice
Two and a half stars
>Another entry in the Nicholas Sparks weepy canon features Teresa Palmer and Benjamin Walker as the star-crossed lovers who are sure to experience tragedy and have a scene in a sexy rainstorm, as required by all Sparks properties. Rent The Notebook instead. PG-13 (sexual situations) — Molly Eichel