Movies
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Box office top 20: 'Finding Dory' swamps 'Independence Day'
Jun 27, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - "Finding Dory" topped the weekend North American box office for the second straight week, drowning the underperforming "Independence Day: Resurgence." Ac...
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See 'A Table for Sixty Thousand,' meet director July 15Jun 26, 2016 11:00 pm - The main gallery at Water Street Studios, 160 S. Water St. in Batavia, will host a free screening of the documentary film, "A Table for Sixty Thousand," at 6 p.m. Friday...
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'Dory' overwhelms 'Independence Day,' 'Shallows' surprises
Jun 26, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - The "Finding Dory" tidal wave overwhelmed the sputtering sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence," as the alien-invasion redux was drowned out by the popular Pix...
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How Sigourney Weaver and Ed O'Neill were netted for 'Dory'Jun 26, 2016 6:45 am - "Finding Dory" brings back a lot of familiar faces from "Finding Nemo" - but if you've seen the movie, you know some of the newer characters steal the show. One such cha...
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'Independence Day' sequel a blast of big, dumb funJun 24, 2016 11:30 am - If you have any interest in a sequel to "Independence Day," you'll likely not be disappointed by the improbably enjoyable "Independence Day: Resurgence." It's silly, lig...
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'The Shallows' delivers tension in Blake Lively vs. shark taleJun 24, 2016 10:00 am - It's helpful to think of "The Shallows" - the spare yet serviceable new shark-themed thriller starring Blake Lively - as less of a 21st-century "Jaws" than a distaff ver...
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'Neon Demon' director says he's 'addicted' to darknessJun 24, 2016 6:00 am - At Chicago's Waldorf Astoria Hotel Monday, I asked polarizing Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn - director of such edgy works as "Only God Forgives," "Bronson" and "...
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'Free State of Jones' slogs through tale of Confederate revoltJun 23, 2016 6:00 am - In Gary Ross' longer-than-the-Civil-War Civil War epic “Free State of Jones,” Matthew McConaughey portrays Mississippi farmer Newton Knight, a Confederate-deserter-turne...
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'Neon Demon' a strange, stylish horror filmJun 23, 2016 6:00 am - In Nicolas Winding Refn's strange and stylized horror tale "The Neon Demon," bludgeoning metaphors become even deadlier than the jealous rivalries that ferment inside L....
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"Finding Dory" breaks record for opening of animated film
Jun 20, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Finding Dory" is officially the record holder for top animated opening of all time in North American theaters, unseating "Shrek The Third." It's fina...