Atonement (movie)

Quick: What movie most recently won the Golden Globe Award for best drama? If you can't remember, is the award worth much? Myth has it that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's members—from such countries as Tahiti, Lithuania, the United Arab...

"Slumdog Millionaire," a modern-day fable about an orphan from Mumbai who ends up on a television game show, is shaping up to be this movie season's Cinderella story. At one point, it seemed poised to go straight to DVD after its original studio,...

Consumers opened their wallets this weekend not only for Black Friday retail sales but also for the movie industry, which recorded its second-highest Thanksgiving weekend box office ever. Ticket sales for the five-day period totaled $236 million, spurred...

" Wanted," an action-heavy, plot-light film out on DVD today, turns into "Unwanted" about an hour into it. It starts out well enough. We're plunged into a taut chase scene in the world of professional killers. Magic bullets defy gravity, and a tough guy...

There's a lot working against " City of Ember" in terms of its commercial prospects. Among the question marks: an indistinct title, taken from a popular-but-not-epoch-shattering series of books; an apocalyptic vision of the future that resists the usual...

A young-adult movie for our calamitous age, City of Ember, based on the novel by Jeanne DuPrau, starts with the end of the world as we know it and goes on from there. Billed as a rip-snorting adventure, it's more like a feverish middle-schooler's...

It pays to be early, or so that was the thinking behind Sony Picture Classics' decision to send out the academy screener of the Sundance hit " Frozen River" back on Sept. 24. Yes, that was five months before the February 2009 Oscar ceremony, and way...

You know you're not in Cannes when the all-female marching band, wearing white go-go boots, belts out Communist anthems at the opening ceremony. This is a film festival like none other in the world. There are no movie stars, no paparazzi, hardly any...

Heads up, all you 'tweens out there in Let's Go to the Movies land. Today's word is "dystopia," often used to describe works of science fiction that depict an Earth that has been polluted ("Blade Runner"), globally warmed ("Waterworld"), or Big Brother'...

Heads up, all you 'tweens out there. Today's word is "dystopia," as in the opposite of "utopia," often used to describe works of science fiction that depict an Earth that has been polluted ("Blade Runner"), globally warmed ("Waterworld") or "Big Brother"'...

Heads up, all you tweens out there in Let's Go to the Moviesland. Today's word is "dystopia," as in the opposite of "utopia," often used to describe works of science fiction that depict an Earth that has been polluted (Blade Runner), globally warmed...

Although Jennifer Butler Murray may have filed for divorce from actor Bill Murray in May, he's keeping busy and is now publicizing his newest film, " City of Ember." Bill Murray co-stars in "City of Ember" along with Saoirse Ronan, the young star of "...