By all accounts, Jay Moriarity was a lovely young man: a talented, dedicated surfer whose enthusiasm and optimism were infectious throughout the Santa Cruz, Calif., comm...
Maybe if you're 20 years old and high in your dorm room with your friends, the platitudes presented in “Cloud Atlas” might seem profound.
Anyone else in his or her right...
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NEW YORK — Robert Caro, Junot Diaz and the late Anthony Shadid were among the finalists announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards.
Other nominees included the nov...
Given that it’s based on the true story of a man with polio who spends most of his time in an iron lung, “The Sessions” is not as painfully heavy-handed as it might soun...
LOS ANGELES — Mockumentary filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish) know a thing or two about misdirecting an audience, as they proved again with 2011's “Para...
LOS ANGELES — Liam Neeson’s “Taken 2” has defended its box-office title with a narrow win over Ben Affleck’s “Argo.”
Sunday studio estimates put 20th Century Fox’s actio...
In his second movie, the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has mangled together a comic, self-aware revenge flick that’s half Guy Ritchie, half Charlie Kaufman.
If that ...
A movie about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis probably doesn't sound like it would be a laugh riot — or should be — but that's just one of the many ways in which “Argo” ...
For anyone who crossed paths with Tony La Russa before a game, it became something of a ritual.
“How’s it going?” you would ask.
“I’ll let you know in three hours,” he w...
