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...
Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up"?
The makers of "She's Out of My League" sure do. T...
iTunes' top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending March 8:
SINGLES
1. "Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris)," Taio Cruz
2. "Rude Boy," Rihanna
3. "Imma Be," Blac...
When I was a boy, my father took me to see my first live professional basketball game in downtown Los Angeles at the Sports Arena.
Good parochial school boy that I was, ...
In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Alice has grown — not by "drink me" potion or "eat me" cake — into a 19-year-old girl.
Working from Linda Woolverton's very Hollyw...
"Cop Out" is a clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick that stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis.
They pla...
