To celebrate its 20th anniversary, New York City Center's Encores! series is going back to the beginning.
MINNEAPOLIS - Cherubic Jack Black probably isn't a casting director's first idea when casting the part of a real-life murderer. Yet that's exactly the role he plays in "Bernie."
Honored with nine Cesars, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2009 and nominated for the best foreign-language Oscar, the intense prison drama "A Prophet" made French writer-director Jacques Audiard's international reputation. But by the time it was over, the filmmaker was ready for something different.
The Supreme Court has refused to take up a Boston University student's constitutional challenge to a $675,000 penalty for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them on the Internet.
The first phases of a reimagined Fantasyland at Florida's Walt Disney World, a Disneyland attraction in California based on the "Cars" movies, and Universal Studios Hollywood's new Transformers ride top the list of new attractions at theme parks across the country in 2012.
MINNEAPOLIS - Watch enough television and your mind can feel like it's dissolving into liquid cheese. Thank goodness for those magic moments, the ones that make you proud to own a TV rather than being deeply ashamed. Even though the 2011-12 season was less than inspiring, I found 10 reasons this winter and spring to celebrate:
LOS ANGELES - Often film sequels are slam dunks at the box office, a seamless continuation from where a previous hit left off.
Productions coming to DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday include:
Actor Gary Sinise, known for playing Vietnam War amputee Lt. Dan in the film "Forrest Gump," is keeping his promise to raise money for a southwest Virginia Marine who lost his limbs while on a mine sweep in Afghanistan.
The Cannes Film Festival received a dose of theater Monday in the form of French director Alain Resnais' new film.
Francis Ford Coppola is off the hook.
One day after he succumbed to cancer, Bee Gee Robin Gibb was hailed in his native Britain Monday as a master musician whose interests went far beyond the recording studio.
One day after he succumbed to cancer, Bee Gee Robin Gibb was hailed in his native Britain Monday as a master musician whose interests went far beyond the recording studio.
The allure of movie stardom is becoming evident to Tom Hardy.
