Bob Marley wouldn’t have liked the idea of someone making a film about him. A notoriously reluctant interviewee, Marley seldom spoke to reporters on camera. This posed a cha...

South Korean director-writer Na Hong-jin makes films filled with action, but they’re not quite action movies. The 28-year-old filmmaker’s two dark and thrilling films side...

“The Cabin in the Woods,” opening Friday, is a horror movie with a twist: namely, it was written by Joss Whedon, who inspires rabid devotion from fans of his series “Buf...

It’s a typical horror movie set-up: Five hot, young college students spend a weekend at a creepy cabin in the woods. So, you know bad things are about to happen. But what do...

“Damsels in Distress,” writer-director Whit Stillman’s first movie in almost 14 years, is set on a college campus — and in a sort of time warp. “I didn’t want to m...

I think anyone can be forgiven for thinking that Willem Dafoe is absolutely, psychotically nuts. Sure, he can play sympathetic characters, like in “Platoon,” but he just s...

“Titanic” returned to the seas (and screens) with its 3-D rerelease this week. The most famous ship in history does have some competition when it comes to ships in film. ...

Summer doesn’t start when the calendar (or the solar system) says it does. It doesn’t start on the last day of school, and it certainly doesn’t start on Memorial Day. Su...

Six words — actually, one word used six times — have set off a battle that could keep the people who most need to see “Bully” from seeing it. The documentary, out Frid...

The season of Snow White begins Friday with "Mirror Mirror" and continues with “Snow White and the Huntsman” in June. Julia Roberts plays the evil queen in "Mirror" and jo...

The ending of “Boy,” the latest film from New Zealand director Taika Waititi, is a little bit ancient tradition and a little bit King of Pop. As the final credits roll, ca...

I don’t know why it’s a continual surprise to me that Woody Harrelson can act. He’s been nominated for an Academy Award twice (for “The People vs. Larry Flynt" and “...

Friday marks the release of “The Hunger Games,” a work of fiction in which impoverished teens fight to the death to win a lifetime spared of starvation, and “Jiro Dreams...

Out Friday (or midnight tonight if you’re planning on calling in sick tomorrow), “The Hunger Games” is a summer blockbuster that just happens to be coming out in the spr...

To eat at Tokyo’s Sukiyabashi Jiro Ginza — considered by many to be the greatest sushi restaurant in the world — you’ll need to do all of the following: speak Japanese...