Movies
-
DVD previews: 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'Sep 06, 2014 5:45 am - Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday: "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (PG-13, 136 minutes, Disney): One of the great strengths of the "Avengers" mega-franc...
-
Sweden's Andersson wins Golden Lion at Venice festSep 06, 2014 1:01 am - VENICE, Italy - Sweden's Roy Andersson won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday for his absurdist feature "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Exis...
-
Gire: Hollywood Palms hosts 'No Place Like Home' benefitSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - Film critics notebook • A 75th anniversary screening of MGM's classic musical “The Wizard of Oz” will benefit Aurora's Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity on Monday, Se...
-
Flawed 'Falcon' flies with action star WhiteSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - This marks a first for any action movie I've ever seen: a tough, PTSD-suffering, suicidal ex-soldier takes a U.S. government agent job for the health benefits. But not f...
-
'The Congress' a mad, meta Hollywood tripSep 04, 2014 6:00 am - "Very soon, this whole structure that we all love so much will be gone," prophesies Danny Huston's wide-grinning movie studio head in Ari Folman's "The Congress." He's ...
-
Gire: Conventional 'Robin Hood' misses the sensational boatSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'The Last of Robin Hood' The most interesting piece of trivia to come out of this bio-drama is that Hollywood star Errol Flynn could have played Humbert Hum...
-
'Identical' a lackluster Elvis imitatorSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Here's a bit of Elvis Presley trivia that might surprise some: The King was a twin. His brother was stillborn and Presley, by some accounts, was haunted and fascinated b...
-
Gire: 'Life After Beth' a lifeless rom-zom-comSep 04, 2014 5:45 am - Mini-review: 'Life After Beth' For a romantic zombie comedy, Jeff Baena's "Life After Beth" comes up way short on laughs, scares, action and political insights into our ...
-
Clooney to helm film about British hacking scandalSep 03, 2014 11:00 pm - CULVER CITY, Calif. - Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that George Clooney will co-produce and direct the film version of "Hack Attack," reporter Nick Davies' book abou...
-
'Boardwalk,' reality show begin fall TV seasonSep 03, 2014 11:00 pm - The fall TV season unofficially begins this weekend with two Sunday-night premieres. Fox kicks things off at 7 p.m. with “Utopia,” a new reality show that looks like “Su...