LOS ANGELES — Making his directorial debut with the brawny and big-hearted Australian war drama “The Water Diviner,” Russell Crowe taps a deep well of symbolism, cultura...
Michael Finkel’s journalism career, torpedoed by a partly fabricated story, had just bottomed out when a phone call came asking why a man accused of murdering his wife a...
“Monkey Kingdom,” Disneynature’s latest Earth Day offering, is an intriguing peek inside the social structure of macaque monkey society in Sri Lanka.
So while it’s got p...
Alan Alda is discussing enduring love, a subject he knows by heart.
Alda, who came to fame as Hawkeye Pierce on the 1972-83 CBS comedy series “MASH,” recently celebrated...
The pretty coed doesn’t want to go, doesn’t see herself “as a rodeo gal.” But her sorority sisters insist she ogle the “easy on the eyes” cowboys with them.
He rides a b...
“Furious 7,” the newest model in the careening yet indestructible “Fast & Furious” franchise, is directed by a guy better known for corpses than cars.
Australian James W...
The combination of a feeble script, unnecessary music montages, unlikable characters and so-so animation leave “Home” a close encounter of the dull kind.
E.T. would use...
“Get Hard,” the prepping-for-prison would-be comedy from Will Ferrell and comedian-of-the-moment Kevin Hart, is about as funny as life imprisonment without the possibili...
“The Witch of Painted Sorrows” (Atria Books), by M.J. Rose
M.J. Rose writes compelling tales with a gothic flair, and her latest novel, “The Witch of Painted Sorrows,” i...
“Insurgent” doesn’t seriously diverge from the “Divergent/Hunger Games/Maze Runner” formula until its final act.
Up until then, this “Divergent” sequel is Young Adults S...
