NEW YORK — On a wintry weekend, Disney’s “Frozen” retook the box-office top spot with $20.7 million, freezing out the horror spinoff “Paranormal Activity: The Marked One...
Some critics are calling 2013 the best movie year in a decade. And although critical darlings don't always produce profits, it will also be the highest-grossing year on ...
LOS ANGELES — Over the bustling post-Christmas weekend, Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” continued to lead the box office, landing in the No. 1 slot...
“The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion; Simon and Schuster (295 pages, $24)
Don Tillman, the narrator of Graeme Simsion’s debut novel, “The Rosie Project,” is, in his own...
LOS ANGELES — Marketed as Ben Stiller's bend toward drama, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” finds the actor, who also directed the feature, seemingly exuding super-huma...
Planning some extended family dinners over the holidays? Worried that folks might not get along, that festering tensions might surface, that people might get tipsy and s...
Can there be too much of a good thing? Where did that expression come from, anyway? If it’s good, isn’t more always better?
Discuss.
Or, actually, don’t discuss. Becaus...
“The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism” (Simon & Schuster), by Doris Kearns Goodwin
In her new account of the lives...
It’s a Hollywood legend that Walt Disney felt some sort of malevolent glee in killing Bambi’s mom, and what that animated death would do to the children who saw it. But ...
LOS ANGELES — Undaunted hobbits trumped princess power at the multiplex.
Per studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros. “Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” was No. 1 at the we...
