Movies
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Last 'Harry Potter' book will be 2 films
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Harry Potter was the center of seven novels, but he'll star in eight films. The final book in the wildly successful series will be made into two films, th...
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'Never Back Down' fights for a little respectMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - You don't sit down to a Britney Spears' concert to hear great opera. That has to be the mind-set when you walk into the theater for "Never Back Down," a story of an angr...
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Crime thriller a triumph for Coen brothersMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - "No Country for Old Men" -- After two lightweight offerings, the Coen brothers return to form in stunning fashion with "No Country for Old Men," which recently snagg...
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Now batting for the Yankees: Billy Crystal?
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Comic timing everything for McDormand, Adams in funny 'Miss Pettigrew'Mar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Disheveled and worn down, Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) goes from bad to worse. Before the opening credits of "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" are finished, she get...
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DVD releasesMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - These DVDs were released this week: "Into the Wild" Sean Penn directs this beautifully made film in which we meet a young and complex Christopher McCandless (Emile ...
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'Bank Job' can't balance tense action with fun caperMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Inspired by the true story of a 1971 London bank heist that goes terribly wrong, "The Bank Job" has it all: corruption, sex scandals, political intrigue, murder. Despite...
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Three to seeMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - "The Band's Visit" This gentle culture-clash comedy won eight Israeli Film Academy Awards. When an Egyptian police band gets lost on the way to inaugurate an Arab Cultu...
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'Witch Mountain' becomes action thrillerMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Ciaran Hinds and Alexander Ludwig have joined the cast of "Race to Witch Mountain," Disney's reimagining of its 1975 adventure movie "Escape to Witch Mountain." Andy Fic...
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Silly 'B.C.' offers 10,000 reasons to avoid this filmMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The sheer lunacy of "10,000 B.C." -- the audacious scope of its spectacular awfulness -- gives it a peculiar fascination akin to witnessing a cinematic head-on collision...