Movies
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Jerry Lewis: Would you have me any other way?Aug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Editor's note: The following is a lightly edited reprint of Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire's Oct. 15, 1982, interview with the late comedian/filmmaker Jerry Lewi...
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Dann Gire: My wild, wacky afternoon with Jerry LewisAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Daily Herald Film Critic dgire@dailyherald.com If I had to choose my all-time craziest interview experience, Jerry Lewis would be it. I first met Lewis in 1982 when he c...
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Box Office Top 20: 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' hits No. 1
Aug 21, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "The Hitman's Bodyguard" stole the weekend from the heist pic "Logan Lucky." Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, "The Hitman's Bodyguard" op...
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Movies are moving to a more modern soundAug 21, 2017 6:00 am - Film music is only a little more than 100 years old, but that's long enough for any art form to grow stale. Musically, most trips to the multiplex run together these day...
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'The Hitman's Bodyguard' outdoes 'Logan Lucky' at box office
Aug 20, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Critics loved "Logan Lucky" and gave a big collective shrug to "The Hitman's Bodyguard," but when it came to the test of the marketplace, audiences we...
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Free outdoor screening of 'Guardians' at Harper CollegeAug 20, 2017 1:00 am - Harper College will host an outdoor movie screening of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2" on Friday, Aug. 25. The free movie will be at the outdoor pavilion on ...
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Unretired, Soderbergh wants to pull a fast one on HollywoodAug 19, 2017 7:23 am - NEW YORK - "Populist Pictures" reads the buzzer to Steven Soderbergh's TriBeCa office. You might easily mistake it as ironic. It's a grand title for a little nameplate o...
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Could movie theater chains get left out of deal on digital downloads?
Aug 19, 2017 7:16 am - Movie studios are considering whether to ignore the objections of cinema chains and forge ahead with a plan to offer digital rentals of films mere weeks after they appea...
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Some not-so-obvious great teachers in movie historyAug 18, 2017 6:00 am - Summer has already ended for some students in the suburbs, giving way to that exciting first week of school when you meet your new teachers, get reacquainted with that d...
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'Only Living Boy' a pretentious, emotionally barren coming-of-age dramaAug 18, 2017 6:00 am - If you can't tell that men wrote and directed the pretentiously literary, emotionally barren, coming-of-age drama "The Only Living Boy in New York," here are some clues:...