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Stars brave London rain at 'Harry Potter' premiere
Thousands of Harry Potter fans braved rain and hail Tuesday to cheer the cast of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" at its London premiere.
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Redbox's machines take on Netflix's red envelopes
With more subscribers than ever flocking to its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix Inc. is one of the few companies to prosper during the worst U.S. recession in 70 years. Yet Netflix CEO Reed Hastings still has something to worry about: an even cheaper DVD rental service run by one of his former lieutenants.
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Murphy's performance in 'Imagine' a pleasant surprise
The words "Eddie Murphy family comedy" are enough to send shivers down the spine of any self-respecting film lover.
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Theater owners behind on 3-D projectors
To hear the folks in Hollywood talk about it, improved 3-D technology and the quality films that are quickly lining up behind it represent nothing short of a moviegoing revolution. Tell that to the folks who still live hours from the nearest 3-D-equipped theater.
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'Twilight' takes a bite out of MTV Movie Awards
The MTV Movie Awards were a blood bath Sunday night with "Twilight" taking five trophies, including best movie. But it was Sacha Baron Cohen who gave the show it's trademark bizarro moment when he landed upside-down on the lap of Eminem, who may or may not have been deeply offended.
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'Goodbye Solo': NC director makes movie about town
Nursing homes in Winston-Salem gave writer and director Ramin Bahrani inspiration for his latest movie, but even though he stayed in his home town he needed a cab driver to find the right locations to film.
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'Star Trek' flies again, with unwritten future
They have Leonard Nimoy, and they have all the trappings, gadgets and crew members of the starship Enterprise.
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'Spirit' brings work of comics artist Eisner to DVD
The Spirit (PG-13): Robert Rodriguez based his hit movie Sin City -- which comes to Blu-ray later this month -- on the works of comics artist Frank Miller, whom he brought in to collaborate on the film. And now Miller has, in turn, produced a movie based on one of his influences.
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'Haunting' grasps for every cheap horror-film trick you've seen
It's every parent's worst nightmare -- a child with cancer -- a story that's grist for lousy horror moviemaking. The Haunting in Connecticut is another movie based on a supposedly true paranormal occurrence -- perhaps you haven't entirely forgotten 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose or An American Haunting from 2006.
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Newest 'Furious' installment is running on empty
Noise, noise, noise. Crunched metal and shattered glass. More noise. Revving engines. Vin Diesel's giant head. Hot chicks in tight miniskirts. Even more noise. The end.
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Downey gives Sherlock Holmes an action update
Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed.
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'Monsters vs. Aliens' a technical wonder, hurt by weak script
The animated family comedy "Monsters vs. Aliens" looks as good as "The Incredibles." And its premise is as good as "The Incredibles."
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Plenty of laughs and sly references make 'Monsters' enjoyable
Classic creatures from the 1950s get a high-tech makeover, with a healthy amount of attitude, in the 3-D animated Monsters vs. Aliens.
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Horror film draws unwanted visitors to Conn. house
A Hollywood horror film that depicts the alleged haunting of a former funeral parlor in central Connecticut is turning into a nightmare for the home's current owners and their neighbors.
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'Race to Witch Mountain' good enough, if you're old enough
So many developments have been made in action films for adults lately. Why not use them in an action film for children?
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'Watchmen' a film made only for fans of novel
The most unintentionally hilarious moment in "Watchmen"? There are so many to choose from, so very many.
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Steve Martin adds one more item to his resume: banjo picker
Steve Martin has packed so much into his 63 years that it almost seems easier to mention what he hasn't done instead of what he has.
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Watchmen creators had to start from the superhero drawing board
When comics writer Alan Moore first came up with the idea of the Watchmen during his tenure at DC Comics, he wanted to use existing comic characters for the story. He built the story around characters from the Charlton Comics line, which had recently been bought by DC. But DC was reluctant to let him use the characters they had just spent a lot of money for, fearing that after the dark, sinister story was over the characters would be unusable. So Moore and artist Dave Gibbons redesigned their miniseries, building their characters on superhero archetypes but keeping elements of the Charlton characters for most of them.
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Who will watch Watchmen?
The mystery adventure film, Watchmen, is based on the DC comic book series about superheroes set in an alternate 1985 America and opens Friday.
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Auctioneer to sell score to Hitchcock's 'Psycho'
The heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," including the screeching music to the film's famous shower scene, is being put up for sale, British auction house Bonhams said Tuesday.
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'Watchmen' sequel unlikely
Fans should plan to savor every visual morsel when "Watchmen" swoops into movie theaters Friday because the subversive superheroes of the landmark comic book series may never return to the big screen.
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New 'Pink Panther' falls flat
The best part of "The Pink Panther 2" is the Henry Mancini theme song, still cool after all these years. But the rest of the movie is almost a total loss.
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Critics give an emphatic 'thumbs down' to new film critic
Ben Lyons could be the most hated film critic in America. At least among other critics.
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Terminator, 24 others added to archive
WASHINGTON -- One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous one-liners will be back for generations to come, now that 1984's The Terminator has been selected for preservation in the nation's film archive.
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Colleagues, critics agree that Winslet is well on her way to the top
In the Hollywood-as-high-school fantasy of our minds, Katherine Heigl and Kate Hudson giggle in the back of RomCom 101; Anne Hathaway rocks an independent study with Julia Roberts; Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman breeze in and out of "Prosthetics and Your Oscar."
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