In 2001, veteran crime writer Ed McBain teamed up with acclaimed literary novelist and screenwriter Evan Hunter to write Candyland: A Novel of Obsession; the book opens with the type of in-depth chara...
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Hot Fuzz does for cop movies what Shaun of the Dead did for both zombie movies and romantic comedies. But that spread the wealth between two genres. Hot Fuzz is pure cop action fun. Officers Nick ...
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Selected home-video releases:"300"This year's first $200 million hit was a marriage of ancient history and modern Hollywood bloodshed, filtered through the visual wizardry of computer-generated ani...
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How moviegoers in the multiplexes of middle America choose to spend their ten-spot is probably a big deal in Hollywood.
But here in Manhattan, the hottest movies aren't always the ones making the b...
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This weekend, as far as the movie studios are concerned, was the last weekend before the official start of summer. So you can forgive them if they took a bit of a break with the big movie releases....
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Cop movies don't come in singles. It's always buddies. Even Clint Eastwood had no name partners to take bullets for him. In their send up of cop movies, Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg plays by the...
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The face of Hannibal Lecter was no match for Shia LaBeouf in a box-office battle of murder thrillers. DreamWorks and Paramount's "Disturbia," starring LaBeouf as a teen who suspects a neighbor of m...
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The number of elk in the Yellowstone National Park region infected with scabies, a skin infestation caused by mites, is up this year, state wildlife officials say. The disease can be fatal, especia...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Ticket sales for Spider-Man 3 dropped by 60
per cent in its second weekend of release in the United States and
Canada, but the comic book-turned-movie re...
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An unsolicited letter or email labeled "urgent" usually isn't!A person who dies with dignity is just as dead as one who dies without any. Things done in desperation almost never succeed.Deborah Nor...
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