Your Highness (2011)

The stoner fantasy features a sorcerer’s tale and a sorcerer’s tail (Natalie Portman’s bare ass), but director David Gordon Green, James Franco and Danny McBride can’t recapture the high times of “Pineapple Express.” You may have to be stoned to enjoy it.

d: David Gordon Green | imdb.com | trailer | Advice for Isabel

Black Swan (2010)

Director Darren Aronofsky presents “Swan Lake” as a psychological thriller, “Carrie” in a tutu — the sheltered innocent, the creepily overbearing Mommy Dearest and blood. It’s either homage or derivative or something else, but Natalie Portman is quite good.

d: Darren Aronofsky | imdb.com | trailer | Charlie Rose
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