At some point after watching "The Damned United" — maybe on the drive home, maybe days later — it will occur to you how few actual soccer scenes there are in the movie. ...
Do you people have any idea what I go through for you? ...
For someone who was as celebrated internationally as France's Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the woman who inspired dozens of biographies by changing the shape of 20th-century fashion, not that much is known for sure about her formative years. ...
The new Disney "A Christmas Carol" is another epic achievement in motion-capture animation, advancing the art form closer to photo-realism than "The Polar Express" or "Beowulf." Dazzling, ornate visuals take us to the snowy London of 1837, swooping over its digital rooftops and down its digital chimneys. Faces take on musculature, expression and detail. ...
BERLIN — For Katy Perry, learning can be fun. ...
The Fox Theatre's fall/winter classics series continues with William Powell in "The Thin Man" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at 17 W. Congress St. Tickets are $8....
The Loft's First Friday Shorts is a raucous affair that's ruled by the gong. ...
University of Arizona media arts grad Michael Hojjatie counts landing a DVD distribution deal for "Gunheavy," a sci-fi film he produced, as one of his greatest achievements. ...
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Tony Scott's "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," the remake of the 1974 thriller starring Walter Matthau, moves along at a brisk pace for a while, filled with the director's usual razzle-dazzle, before it derails. ...
Sunday's All Souls Procession and subsequent Calexico concert are being filmed for a documentary about the event. ...
NEW YORK -- On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask affiliates of the CW network to pre-empt the show....
"Afrika" ...
FORKS, Wash. — For some reason, Randy Lato's "Vampire Voyages" boat trips just haven't brought in the big tourist bucks yet. He hasn't quite worked out a plausible connection between fishing and the fictional "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer set in this little Olympic Peninsula town....
BURBANK, Calif. — Actor Christian Slater's long and successful career makes it seem like he never missed out on anything. But there is one thing that passed him by, he says: life....
The most mind-boggling aspect of the still-fresh TV season isn't that witches have returned to Eastwick or that the planet got a sneak peek at the apocalypse. It's that, for the first time in years, network executives can step away from the ledge....
I was never much one for "Guitar Hero." Playing "Smoke on the Water" 50 times while holding a pint-sized plastic guitar just never really got the blood flowing. I've been waiting for something better, and now it's here....
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers from their cash?...
"Michael Jackson's This Is It" looks beyond the reconstructed face and spindly body of the late King of Pop and basks in his meteoric light. ...
LOS ANGELES — "Michael Jackson's This Is It" premiered to high praise from fans who applauded at each number as though they were at a concert and marveled as the 50-year-old singer stepped nimbly through his moonwalk and other signature moves. ...
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Shawn Florchak spent several months trying to win a scholarship that didn't yet exist. ...
Restraint, artistic and emotional, is the great strength of "Bright Star," opening Friday at the Loft Cinema. ...
The Christian music band performs a show that will be broadcast in theaters around the world on Wednesday night. Times, theaters at ncm.com/fathom...
Cinema La Placita is putting on the ritz at 7:30 tonight by screening "Young Frankenstein," a Mel Brooks spoof that might be his best ever. ...
You didn't think Halloween could come and go without about another vampire flick, didya? "Netherbeast Incorporated" is screening at 9 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday at Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, 11 S. Sixth Ave. ...
Anticipation for Nov. 8's All Souls Procession will be kicked up a notch tonight at the Seventh Annual All Souls International Film Festival, a collection of short films that deal with death. ...
HAVANA — Michael Douglas staged an impromptu walking tour of the Cuban capital's historic district Tuesday, posing for photos with construction workers and surprised residents. ...
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Woody Allen's latest, "Whatever Works," was originally written in the 1970s and covers many of the themes the actor-comedian-writer had on his mind in those days — women (younger ones often), old movies and music, the charms of hometown Manhattan and the impermanent and ephemeral nature of love. ...
I strolled through the front door of North Fourth Avenue hotspot Plush with an eye out for a group of 20-somethings dressed as tacos. ...
