From their first appearance in “Madagascar,” Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico have been committing grand theft scene stealing. The four lovable, military-minded pengu...
There are two dramas about jazz currently in theaters, but they couldn’t be more different.
“Whiplash,” focusing on a determined student of the drums and his maniacal ba...
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1,” the first installment in the last chapter of the popular franchise, is all coil and no release. It’s a taut, dark portrait of a ...
Gloom gathers over the movie “Foxcatcher.” The skies are perpetually grey and the only time we see don't see red leaves tumbling to the ground is when they're covered wi...
You can take the man away from the humor. But you clearly can’t always take the humor from the man.
This gratifying principle proves true both for the Iranian-born Cana...
Book: He was century's best
“Hope: Entertainer of the Century,” by Richard Zoglin; Simon & Schuster.
NEW YORK — While today he may be thought of with misgivings, if at al...
LOS ANGELES — A team of animated Marvel characters rocketed past a group of wormhole-bound astronauts at the weekend box office.
Disney’s animated adventure “Big Hero 6...
Since his breakthrough with the backward-running “Memento,” Christopher Nolan has made a plaything of time. In “Interstellar,” he slips into its very fabric, shaping its...
“Big Hero 6” is Walt Disney Animation’s lovely and sometimes touching attempt to do anime with computer-generated animation. Based on Marvel comic book characters, it’s ...
The axiom animating television news — “If it bleeds, it leads” — often leaves you wondering just who gets stained in the process.
Particularly in the wake of frenzied, e...
