LOS ANGELES — "Post Grad," a comedy about a driven, hardworking college student who's unable to find a job after she graduates, actually might have been relevant. It mig...
LOS ANGELES — The first-time director and cast of unknowns of the acclaimed sci-fi thriller "District 9" have given Hollywood a late-summer box-office boost. The Sony re...
LOS ANGELES — The mysterious and alarming signs have been out there for weeks, months even: On billboards, benches and bus stops featuring crude cartoon alien drawings, ...
Time traveling might sound fun and rewarding, but it's actually sort of a grind. Sure, you can zip back to the past on occasion and briefly enjoy the company of long-gon...
The late John Hughes would have liked "Bandslam," an upbeat high school musical that plays like a garage-band cover of "The Breakfast Club."
Todd Graff's film adds a Red...
Hollywood's "Cash for Clunkers" program misfires with "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard." It's a car-selling comedy that plays like a backfiring Bentley — a shiny ride th...
LOS ANGELES — "A Perfect Getaway" is essentially one big red herring, flopping around on an idyllic Hawaiian beach, desperately trying to call attention to itself.
Every...
Chicken Little kind of had it right — the sky is falling, in fireballs and chunks of rock hewn by a tumble through Earth's atmosphere.
Christopher Cokinos hunts down the...
Summer blockbuster season officially ends with the arrival of "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," another brainless popcorn picture built on an awful '80s TV cartoon.
It's a ...
LOS ANGELES — If only Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen hadn't gotten in the car.
If only they hadn't left Los Angeles, where everything in "Funny People" was going so well, a...