Ghost Town (movie)

"The Duchess": The Keira Knightley vehicle "The Duchess" is the kind of bodice-ripping prestige picture in which the wigs are high, the powder is thick and the diction is perfect in that way common to historical romances about silently suffering souls....

* Eagle Eye: Shia LaBeouf caps another big year with this hit action thriller about characters caught up in a Web of pervasive surveillance technology. After co-starring in the new Indiana Jones blockbuster, LaBeouf hooks up with Michelle Monaghan, the...

One of the more underrated movies of the year, "Ghost Town" should have been a bigger hit. Ricky Gervais (famous for the original British TV series "The Office") plays Bertram Pincus, an anti-social dentist who dies for a few minutes during a routine...

MOVIES "Baghead"; "The Duchess"; "Eagle Eye"; "Ghost Town"; "Resident Evil: Regeneration"; "Savage Grace"

COMING ATTRACTION THE MOVIE Star Trek THE DEAL A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members. IN THEATERS May 8 NEXT WEEK DEFIANCE - Daniel Craig, left, stars in the true story of four Jewish brothers...

Taken in its totality, 2008 was a very good year for movies - and not just because it boasted more excellent films than could be contained on a 10-best list. When movie columnists and media pundits weren't looking, there was a surprising mood-shift on the...

From Batman and Iron Man to Hancock and the Hulk, superheroes ruled the box office in 2008. Even audience action favorites Indiana Jones and James Bond had to take a backseat to '' The Dark Knight,'' Christopher Nolan's extravaganza, which swooped away...

Rumor has it that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may actually honor some movies at this year's Oscar ceremony. Movies, as opposed to, you know, filmsfilms. Movies are those big, loud, colorful things that play on many cineplex big...

Movie Releases This Week Seven Pounds: PG-13; Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy. An IRS agent takes fate into his own hands and tries to change the destinies of seven strangers. The Tale of Despereaux: G; Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman,...

It's time for the annual Oscar telecast hand-wringing. Every year the show's ratings slip a little lower and every year members of the entertainment media offer their unsolicited and perpetually unheeded advice on how to fix the show. The criticism is...

opening next friday Before I Forget (Strand Releasing) Jacques Nolot directs and stars as a gay gigolo who fears ending up back on the streets after his benefactor dies. In French with English subtitles. Max Payne (20th Century Fox) A DEA agent and an...

Amid the congested pantheon of romantic male leads, one would be hard-pressed to find a more improbable candidate than Ricky Gervais. I mean, can we talk? Even if one could somehow exorcise images of David Brent, the gaseous desk jockey immortalized by...