Baseball is so obsessed with statistics you might think it's easy to identify who threw the fastest fastball.
Not so, Tim Wendel tells us in "High Heat: The Secret Histo...
If you had a hot tub that could transport you to any era in time, would you really make a beeline for the 1980s?
That's where the filmmakers headed with "Hot Tub Time Ma...
LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" took in $34.5 million to remain the No. 1 movie for a third-straight weekend. Here's the rundown:
1. "Al...
Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything from balks and bunts to force plays and foul tips.
MLB's "Official Rules...
In Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight," George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez memorably created romantic sparks while huddled in the trunk of a car. By contrast, the action-l...
In the happy future of "Repo Men," if you need a pancreas, you can get a pancreas. It'll cost you $618,000 and, if you miss one of your scheduled "easy" payments, you'll...
System is product of 'modern age'
As Robert Perkinson points out in "Texas Tough," his very readable history of U.S. prisons, locking up people is big business. America s...
LOS ANGELES — Alice is still ruling the movie palace. "Alice in Wonderland" easily remained the No. 1 weekend draw. Estimated ticket sales were:
1. "Alice in Wonderland,...
Baseball is played by the boys of spring, whose sport also runs through summer and spills into the first several weeks of fall.
In all, it's an eight-month enterprise th...
One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness.
As a genre, wedding films are typically about as cloying as two hours' worth of kitten videos on You...
