'Chronicle' $wats DanielSome unknown kids with superpowers are battling the actor who plays the world's most famous teen wizard at the weekend box office.
The 20th Century Fox release "Chronicle," featuring a relatively unknown cast as youths who gain telekinetic abilities, debuted with numbers that could make it the No. 1...
Jerry's vidsIt was discovered at an NBC warehouse in New Jersey back in the 1980s. There, on a pile of tapes waiting to be erased, researcher Bob Furmanek uncovered a little piece of television history.
The two-inch color videotape contained one of the few known copies of "The Jazz Singer," a...
Raquel's fantastic voyageThese days, the ranks of our female sex symbols are legion. But in the '60s and '70s, there was one who towered head, shoulders and cleavage above all others: Raquel Welch. The screen siren is being celebrated by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which is screening 10 of her...
Punk'd powersAs superhero movies have become a dominant cinematic genre in recent years, audiences have come to expect a certain story arc: regular Joe gets bitten by a radioactive honey badger (or whatever creature). Joe gains spectacular powers. Joe dons flattering spandex costume, fights crime and saves the world.
This weekend...
Racy ads for French movie starring 'The Artist's' Jean Dujardin pulledPARIS — What does it take to shock in the land of the Gallic shrug? Ads that suggest adulterous oral sex, according to complaints about new movie "Les Infideles."
Posters for the film — which show the contented male stars with faceless women in submissive positions — went up Tuesday but were being...
'Miracle' swims to the top'big Miracle" shouldn't really work, but it does. It's an exciting, charming and often quite funny family film inspired by the real-life 1988 rescue of three gray whales trapped in ice near Alaska's northernmost point.
It's also a romantic comedy — as well as a surprisingly sharp...
The InnkeepersWith the right accompaniment, a slow trudge down the hallway of any aging hotel can become the stuff of nightmares. That's the simple, effective premise, with obvious nods to "The Shining," in this ghost story from horror director Ti West ("The House of the Devil").
It's closing weekend...
Carol Channing: Larger Than LifeDori Berinstein's cinematic love letter masquerading as a documentary presents a totally adoring portrait of the 91-year-old Broadway icon, who tells many great and funny stories about a show business career (including stops in Hollywood) that stretches back more than 60 years.
But there's little sense of the...
Kill ListBanal at the beginning and preposterous at the close, the British horror film "Kill List" jumbles together wildly incongruous ingredients to create a dramatic mush.
We learned from "True Lies" that even trained assassins can have dreary home lives, and dull are the domestic squabbles of parents Jay (Neil Maskell...
SplintersSurf's up in the troubled nation of Papua New Guinea. According to Adam Pesce's documentary "Splinters," the sport got its start there when an Australian pilot left a surfboard behind in the 1980s. Today, surfing is an obsession for many of the residents, male and female. "The ocean...
Here's looking at you, Bogie'Sometimes," says Stephen Bogart from his home in Naples, Fla., "I can't believe I ended up being the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.''
The former TV producer turned real estate agent and crime novelist admits he was "horrible'' in his only acting role in a high school...
Perfect SenseWould the Mayans have predicted the end of the world in 2012 if they'd known it would inspire not only "The Tree of Life'' and "Melancholia'' but an endless supply of more dreary depictions of end-times like this one?
David Mackenzie's low-budget film delivers the apocalypse by way...
Good material, girlOther initials suggest themselves in response to "W.E." How about "W.T.F."? This jagged blob of a movie features a solo dance in the 1930s scored to the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant," several scenes of a rich Manhattan woman chatting with the ghost of Wallis Simpson and a...
Tame 'Woman in Black' no lady in dreadErstwhile boy wizard Daniel Radcliffe works no magic as a grieving lawyer in "The Woman in Black,'' a creaky haunted-house story that's strong on creepy atmosphere but woefully deficient in the scare department.
It's also packed with horror film clichés from beginning to end.
This British thriller is...
Story crashes and burnsWith great power comes the responsibility to make a decent movie, but the mysterious force running through "Chronicle" is the power to supersuck.
Attempting to blend a cinematic smoothie out of "The Blair Witch Project" and "Superman," the movie instead feels more like what would happen if "Jackass" suddenly started...
Lionsgate releasing 'The Hunger Games' in IMAXLionsgate made an attempt today to try to guarantee the box-office success of "The Hunger Games," announcing that the highly anticipated movie will be released in IMAX for the first week after its US release.
IMAX's tickets are priced higher than those for regular movies, meaning that high attendance...
