James Gandolfini will be hugely missed. He was an expert character actor who was handed the...
Read OnThis travesty, in which the stars could neither sing nor dance (we were supposed to find their...
Read OnThere wasn't room in my review of "Man of Steel'' the other day to discuss one of the most...
Read OnBoris Karloff had appeared in something like 60 movies over 11 years before his first important...
Read OnThis week's reviews (of five pre-code titles) will be coming a bit later. But first a raft of...
Read OnI see Disney is revving up a big-budget, live-action "Cinderella" to be directed by Kenneth Branagh...
Read OnWe critics tend to focus a lot on directors and actors, but Twentieth Century Fox's remarkably...
Read OnI thought it would be fun to watch Gordon Douglas' Liberace vehicle "Sincerely Yours'' (1955) --...
Read OnWarner Bros.' first Blu-ray set consisting entirely of new-to-format pre-1950 titles, out today...
Read OnSometimes it can be rewarding to revisit a "classic'' film you haven't seen in decades, even if...
Read On“World War Z” began promisingly enough, with a...
By KYLE SMITHYou can’t accuse the cast of “The Comedy of...
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLIWhat would you call the demon love child of...
By LINDA STASI
“World War Z” began promisingly enough, with a sudden zombie outbreak in Philadelphia that had me hoping my dream might finally come true: At last, would I see the cast of “Silver Linings Playbook” torn into pieces and devoured? Alas,... Full Story
There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies. But moviegoers may never have seen the likes of the latest breed of the undead, coming at you in...
Leonardo DiCaprio downs champagne surrounded by scantily-clad beauties in the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s latest offering, The Wolf of Wall...
“Man of Steel” leaped to the top of the movie box office in a single bound. The Superman reboot earned $125 million domestically in its opening...
"Man of Steel" leaped over box office expectations in a single weekend. The Warner Bros. superhero film earned $113 million in its opening weekend at...
‘The man who invents a perfect [3-D movie] will have accomplished the greatest achievement since the motion picture,’’ said silent screen comedy...
Even though many of this summer’s animation titles look familiar — most are prequels or sequels or some variation thereof — they all stand apart from...
New York’s cheapest date is back, and best of all, you can also pass it off as “romantic”! All over the city (er, mainly in Manhattan and Brooklyn),...
‘Let's go shopping!” — said by a teen girl as she casually steps into an unlocked celebrity home (Orlando Bloom’s) to help herself to whatever jewels...
‘I grew up in Kansas,’’ says the dimpled superhero of the unabashedly crowd-pleasing blockbuster “Man of Steel’’ as he faces attempted rendition as...
In “This Is the End,” hellfire rains on man and beast, the Earth is torn asunder, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The mood is...
‘Berberian Sound Studio” reminded me of the time my friend Daniela walked out of “The Shining.” “I can’t take it anymore. It’s too scary,” she said....
Colony collapse disorder is the name given to the frightening phenomenon where large groups of honeybees abruptly die off. It’s been in the news a...
Digital 3-D, which has been used to commit any number of aesthetic crimes as it’s grown in popularity over the past decade, is put to pretty much...
There’s a reason W.C. Fields said an actor should never work with children. Witness this French comedy, wherein good-looking Thomas (Raphaël...
Sergei Loznitsa’s grim movie fulfills every preconception of a Russian war tale — slow-paced, teeming with dirt and lousy weather, full of moral...
My prayers weren’t answered. In my 2010 review of “Hatchet II,’’ I implored readers to “say a prayer that there’s no ‘Hatchet III’ in the future.’’...
The sprawling Chinese epic “The Guillotines’’ offers a myriad of bloodthirsty ways to kill one’s enemies. One unfortunate fellow is drawn and...
In “Vehicle 19,” Paul Walker is back behind the wheel again, but this time it’s a rented minivan and the plot is brainless even for a Paul Walker...
Where would some of rock’s biggest hits be without backup singers? Imagine “Walk on the Wild Side” minus its doo-do-doos, or “Gimme Shelter” with no...
In the 75 years since Superman debuted in Action Comics No. 1, he’s faced down threats from near and far, fending off Kryptonite-toting evil geniuses...
The suspense thriller “The Purge” topped the weekend box office with a shocking $36.4 million that doubled industry expectations, according to studio...
Actors, Seth Rogen says, are probably the least prepared group to survive the end of the world. “We can’t do s - - t,” he jokes. True enough. When...
Zod’s found a friend! While most of the characters in “Man of Steel” will ring a bell to movie-goers, Krypton citizen Faora will be a fresh face. The...
Look for actress Katie Chang around New York City this fall. Or better yet, don’t. The 18-year-old star of Friday’s “The Bling Ring” is headed to...
I always thought that if you Googled “Google,” your computer would probably blow up, but I was wrong. When Vince Vaughn does it in “The Internship,”...