Last week, I noticed that the video game Angry Birds has inspired a theme park in China, which got me thinking about that whole phenomenon: Since when does a cute, feathered Weeble with bushy eyebrows qualify as an angry bird? Seriously. I realize this …
All is not as it seems and people aren’t necessarily who they pretend to be in this twisting R-rated action movie from screenwriter-of-the-moment Ehren Kruger.
…little do they know that, on the very first night in their new home, they’ll have to use their “panic room” in a life-and-death struggle with tenacious burglars.
Beckah Shae is “fed up, upset, angry and frustrated.” What did it take to get the Christian singer/songwriter so peeved? The current state of pop music. In fact, Shae is so concerned about the character-shaping power of contemporary tunes in the lives …
It’s not every day a farmer spies a topless R&B singer in his wheat field. Yet that’s exactly what happened to Alan Graham last week. The Northern Ireland farmer had lent Rihanna’s film crew his property to shoot a music video. Before he knew it, s …
One of the gorier, more vulgar film adaptations of a Stephen King novel, Dreamcatcher is a convoluted horror/sci-fi potboiler.
Thrall, Texas. Population: 800. For most travelers along Route 79, this quiet town lined with cotton fields is just a rest stop on the way to … somewhere else. Its biggest claim to fame? Thrall holds the national record for rainfall in a 24-hour period …
This weekend, on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America will pause. We’ll reflect. We may even share stories with one another in response to the musical question posed by country singer Alan Jackson nearly a decade ago, “Where …
My favorite TV commercial in recent memory is for Best Buy. It’s the one where people are devastated to learn that their brand-new electronic gizmos are already outdated (“You got the wrong TV, silly head”). It’s painfully hilarious. It also illustrate …
In this humorous, warm-hearted drama, two eccentric old brothers in rural, 1950s Texas keep sacks of money hidden in their ramshackle barn …
Annihilation is nothing more than a series of Bruce Lee-style showdowns between acrobatic humans and otherworldly fighters with special powers.
In last summer’s The Mummy Returns, WWF superhunk The Rock made his big-screen debut as the menacing Scorpion King. Now he’s got his own movie.
Two-bit con men follow a treasure map to a legendary city of gold. The dreamer and the schemer brave sharks, leeches and rival fortune-hunters before landing in paradise.
This often clever spy spoof was inspired by a popular series of British credit card commercials from the 1990s.
