The first half of “I Am Number Four” follows the formula for teen romance that made “Twilight” so popular. A high school girl falls for the new school hunk who just happ...
A heartfelt thank-you from 16-year-old singer Justin Bieber to his millions of fans, and an equally sincere plea for them not to forget him when the next doe-eyed cutie-...
In Europe of the 1600s, Edward Dolnick tells us, the average life expectancy was 30. Disease was so rampant that in London, deaths outnumbered births. Belief in the supe...
“Cedar Rapids” begins very much like an Alexander Payne Midwestern comedy is expected to: with an afternoon sex romp and Sigourney Weaver exhorting her companion to “Bri...
This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but “Cold Weather” is a mumblecore movie with a purpose.
Sure, its twentysomething characters sit around and talk about not...
Playing the other woman in “The Other Woman” is an uncomfortable fit for Natalie Portman.
Sure, she did crazy beautifully in “Black Swan,” earning an Oscar nomination fo...
NEW YORK — The Anthony Hopkins film “The Rite” topped the box office while many Oscar-nominated films received a bump, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Warner B...
Anthony Hopkins classes up “The Rite,” as you can imagine he would most every situation. But even his otherworldly powers can only make this overly familiar demonic poss...
It's probably blasphemy to even think this, much less say it out loud, but here goes: The remake of “The Mechanic” starring Jason Statham is better than the 1972 origina...
In Eleanor Brown’s debut novel, the Andreas sisters come home to their small college town of Barnwell after learning their mother has breast cancer. Or rather, her cance...
