The movie poster for “The Host,” opening Friday, features your typical teen-love-triangle image: Saoirse Ronan is front and center with a thousand-yard stare, while co-sta...

Oh, how I hate Bella Swan. The heroine of the “Twilight” saga offends me as a woman, as a feminist and, most importantly, as a “Buffy” fan. I could go on and on [and o...

Tracing the theological and historical similarities between Easter and Passover might leave you more tangled than a ball of that clingy green plastic grass. There’s one surf...

Wanna start your own film festival? It’s not as easy as just showing a bunch of movies, that’s for sure. The first Annapolis Film Festival, which began Thursday and runs t...

I was born in Texas, but D.C. is home. I moved here just before second grade and, except for college an hour away and my two years in Chicago, I have lived in the area ever si...

Brazilian-born director Walter Salles made his name in the U.S. with 2004’s “The Motorcycle Diaries,” based on Che Guevara’s two-wheeled road trip through South Americ...

This week, travel back in time with “The Croods,” about a prehistoric family that has to leave its cave and go on an adventure or there wouldn’t be any movie. Let’s di...

Throughout “Stoker,” his first English-language movie, director Park Chan-wook uses every element of filmmaking — angles, lighting, sound, costumes — to visually comme...

I’m 36. Thanks to good genes (hi, Grandma!) and religious use of sunblock and sunglasses, my face is holding up pretty well. I don’t mind, really, that three little lines ...

In “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” out Friday, Steve Carell, bottom, stars as the titular illusionist (Steve Buscemi, top, plays his partner), whose glittery-jumpsuit s...

Barry Clifford is just like Indiana Jones. Only he wears a baseball cap with “Whydah Dive Ops” on it. And doesn’t carry a whip. And he scuba dives. Clifford is the under...

Bob Thompson spent three years with the song that’s about to be stuck in your head. In researching “Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of...

Press screenings are great, and I highly recommend you either get a job where you have access to them or become my friend so I bring you as my guest for the low price of keepi...

In L. Frank Baum’s books, a tornado is a magical force capable of transporting you to a wonderful fantasy world, an experience James Franco enjoys in “Oz the Great and Pow...

The Sundance Film Festival used to be where cinematic up-and-comers up and went. Now Sundance is a celebrity-filled meet-and-greet with more knowns than unknowns. Still, any i...