NEW YORK — For the latest Marvel release, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” most fan boys might prefer a Consumer Reports-style product review.
New character intro...
What to make of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah”? Perhaps that’s the wrong question. Indeed, what NOT to make of “Noah”? Because it is so many things.
It is, of course, a bibli...
Director David Ayer has made two of the best films about the tough lives of cops — “Training Day” and “End of Watch” — but his streak ends with the very violent and inte...
“A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power” (Simon and Schuster), by Jimmy Carter
NEW YORK — In his new book, “A Call to Action,” former President and longt...
A strange sense of doom hangs over the rebooted Muppets, and it’s not from the Swedish Chef’s cooking.
“The Muppets” (2011) may have been an earnest and largely success...
If you have a kid of a certain age — especially a girl, preteen or thereabouts — then you know the young-adult entertainment message of choice these days:
You’re you, an...
If you’ve seen the poster for “Bad Words,” starring and directed by Jason Bateman, you’ll see a sneer on Bateman’s face. It’s truly nasty. More than most movie posters, ...
I needn’t have worried. The prospect of a feature-length “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” made me nervous, since the Sahara-dry humor that made the old Jay Ward cartoon unique is...
The glistening abs are back in “300: Rise of an Empire,” and they've been doing crunches.
Like its forerunner, the 2007 hit “300,” “Rise of an Empire” again plunges us ...
“Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America” by Howard Blum; HarperCollins (496 pages, $27.99)
History is all about r...
