This is the definitive story of the 1981 kidnapping, rape and murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, and of the botched police investigation that took 27 years to unmask his k...
Monastic life is anything but tedious in Xavier Beauvois’ masterful drama “Of Gods and Men,” based on the real-life tragedy of seven French monks abducted and beheaded d...
The Farrelly brothers continue to strain desperately for their gross-out glory days with “Hall Pass,” their latest “comedy” — and, yes, that word is in quotes for a reas...
Of the many well-chronicled challenges Michael Oher has overcome in his young life, the task of writing an autobiography has to be the most strange: How do you tell your...
A couple of years ago, Liam Neeson starred as a former CIA agent in “Taken,” searching for his kidnapped daughter and kicking as much butt as necessary to find her.
Now,...
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...
