Film

‘Star Trek’ films’ best voyages

The reviews are in and Star Trek Into Darkness, the second big screen adventure helmed by J.J. Abrams, has ...

SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF’S (PG-13)

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s (PG-13)

If fashion is a religion, one of its sacred shrines is an emporium that takes up a whole city block on Manh...

THE ANGELS’ SHARE (unrated)

The Angels’ Share (unrated)

A barrel of whisky would usually spell doom for the working-class blokes who always find their way into Ken...

Miami International Film Festival

Silent movie opens window on lost world of Eastern European Jews

In the fraught world of the silent film The Yellow Ticket, the heroine confronts anti-Semitism and moral hy...

ART IMITATES LIFE

‘Pain & Gain,’ a movie based on South Florida murders, is a painful reminder to victims’ families

Bruce Willis' new ‘Die Hard' scores with $25M debut

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Bruce Willis remains a die-hard at the box office.

Television review

FX’s ‘The Americans’ a family spy drama you should not miss

The Americans. 10-11:45 p.m. Wednesday. FX.

Oscar odds, ends, facts and figures

Fun stuff to know about Thursday’s Oscar nominations:

Movies

2012 reports of film’s death greatly exaggerated

Hollywood Blacklist born 65 years ago today; published out of revenge, son says

Sixty-five years ago today, at the height of the country’s ‘red scare,” one of Hollyw...

Nobody Walks (R)

Nobody Walks (R)

Nobody Walks is one of those fish bowl films: an idea is tossed in like a crumb, then we wait and watch wha...

'Trek' does $70.6M but falls short of studio hopes

"Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, tho...

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

Coens' folk revival 'Llewyn' serenades Cannes

The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its ...

Devilish Dutch drama 'Borgman' debuts at Cannes

There's something nasty lurking in the woods - and inside the characters' heads - in darkly comic Cannes Fi...

'Catching Fire' dampened but not drowned at Cannes

Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," but heavy rain neverthe...

Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders

The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling t...

A Native American tale with international pedigree

Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes

Gunshot scare at Cannes involves 'Django' actor Christoph Waltz

An incident apparently involving a gun briefly interrupted a French television interview with actors Christ...

Brief panic as blanks fired during Cannes TV show

A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what ...

Iran's Farhadi and China's Jia make Cannes splash

Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film ...

SIMON KILLER (unrated) 1/2

Simon Killer (unrated)

The protagonist of Simon Killer wanders the streets of Paris alone, often shot from the back so we see what...

Director J.J. Abrams steers the USS Enterprise in a surprising direction in ‘Star Trek Into Darkness.’

Director J.J. Abrams steers the USS Enterprise in a surprising direction in ‘Star Trek Into Darkness...

IRON MAN 3 (PG-13)

Iron Man 3 (PG-13)

At the start of Iron Man 3, the usually loquacious billionaire Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is off his ga...

TO THE WONDER (R)

To the Wonder (R)

I can pinpoint the exact moment when I mentally checked out of Terrence Malick’s torturous To the Wo...

2013 summer movie preview

Sequels, giant robots and superheroes are hurtling our way.

Movies

The cult of ‘The Shining’

The documentary ‘Room 237,’ which explores the bizarre theories surrounding the 1980 horror class...

OBLIVION (PG-13)

Oblivion (PG-13)

For its first hour or so, Oblivion is a visually mesmerizing, intriguing picture that doesn’t feel l...

Movies

‘Pain & Gain’ revisits a horrific Miami crime

Director Michael Bay uses humor to recount an incredible story involving bodybuilders, drugs and murder.

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R)

'The Place Beyond the Pines' (R)

The Place Beyond the Pines, the new film by the director of Blue Valentine, does not lack for ambition. Beg...

ROOM 237 (unrated)

Room 237 (unrated)

One person believes The Shining was Stanley Kubrick’s commentary on the Holocaust. Another points ou...

BLANCANIEVES (PG-13)

Blancanieves (PG-13)

Where The Artist paid loving homage to the past with a wink to the present, Pablo Berger’s Blancanie...