City of Ember (movie)

AN AMERICAN CAROL (PG-13) (TWO STARS) PLOT An anti-American filmmaker (Kevin Farley) who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country. Kelsey Grammer and Jon Voight co-star. EXTRAS...

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...

Walden Media co-Chief Executive Cary Granat is leaving the company, the latest shake-up to hit billionaire Philip Anschutz's entertainment firm. The move came as little surprise. It had been widely known in Hollywood that Walden management had been...

Stephenie Meyer was born on Christmas Eve 1973 in Hartford. But the pivotal date in her lifetime was June 2, 2003. That was the night she had a dream about a human girl going into the woods and meeting a vampire. The vampire loved the girl but wanted to...

To call the sci-fi kids' film " City of Ember" a parable of energy independence might be pushing things, but it certainly abounds in symbols and allegories. It's set in a futuristic but delightfully rattletrap underground metropolis - part Fritz Lang,...

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 "...

IT FEATURES two of the biggest A-list stars around, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Its director, Ridley Scott, was the creative force behind the blockbusters "Gladiator" and "American Gangster." And the last movie from its screenwriter, William...