There are a lot of big name movies to choose from this week – as in movies with high profiles – including the second week of the cinematic behemoth “The Hunger Games” which has already ably proved that hunger trumps taste. There’s also Julia Roberts as the evil stepmother in “Mirror, Mirror,” the first of two 2012 retreads of the Snow White story. This one is directed by the master of gratuitous form over necessary function, Tarsem (“The Cell,” “The Fall, “Immortals”), so it’s a little like Cirque du Soleil threw up on Julie Taymor at a revival screening of “The Princess Bride.” The dwarves are a marauding gang of thieves who wear pogo-stilts in some overcompensating need to appear giant,

A Single Man Directed by Tom Ford By Tony Sheppard Capitol Weekly Colin Firth plays George Falconer, a professor in 1962 Los Angeles who loses his long time partner in a distant car wreck and struggles through the lonely aftermath, trying to get through each day without him. There’s nothing unique about losing a loved one but Falconer, as a gay man in that period, has only one person he can share his feelings with, his best friend Charley (Julianne Moore) with whom he also shares a complicated past. At work and in his daily life, he maintains a stoicism that hides the lost romance that was always hidden. “A Single Man” is based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood – the Chris of “Chris