The marketing campaign for the new David O. Russell film “Joy,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, has been extremely nervous about bringing down the party with the word “mop.”...
Can the eager viewers of the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer who saw it 112 million times online be all wrong? What about the true believers who purchased $50 mil...
LOS ANGELES — Ron Howard’s “In the Heart of the Sea” is a curious beast. The ambitions are as big as a whale; the results are an earnest wreck. It could possibly work if...
In adapting the 2010 financial crisis book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis, the director of “Anchorman” doesn’t seem like the first choice....
Climbing the power ladder is a bloody, bruising business, and that is nevermore so starkly rendered than in Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth....
The commitment by Mother Teresa to care for those who had been rejected by society is one of the most unparalleled displays of benevolence of the 20th century. The tiny ...
“Creed,” the latest installment in the “Rocky” saga, is like that aging fighter on the undercard who you hope can just hold his own and escape the ring with his life but...
Production was halted early in the process of making “The Good Dinosaur” because it had some dinosaur-sized problems. Peter Sohn was brought in as the new director and h...
Grim, relentless and immensely satisfying, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2” sends out the dystopian sci-fi franchise on a feel-bad high. Readers of Suzanne Collin...
“Love the Coopers” is pretty formulaic as far as Christmas dramedies go, but there are always going to be those movies that just get to you — despite, perhaps, your best...
