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...

Gosling misses Cannes premiere, sends his regrets

The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.

Monroe's photos for Prague exhibition stolen

A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been...

Biden: Jewish leaders drove gay marriage changes

Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriag...

Bolivia lashes at Sean Penn over jailed American

Bolivia's culture minister calls it actor-activist Sean Penn's "worst performance" ever. He isn't talking a...

AP Photos: Fashion captured by Cannes cameras

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

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

Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes

La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent...

Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly

A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."

Nicolas Winding Refn's walk 'between mysticism and reality'

The movie with the Nazi martial-arts fight and drag queens dressed as clowns had just ended when Nicolas Wi...

Depardieu to play a Chechen man seeking revenge

French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of...

Zach Galifianakis brings the outbursts to 'The Hangover Part III'

DETROIT - What did the stars of "The Hangover Part III" do with their free time on the set? Just your avera...

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...