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Movie review: ‘My Brooklyn’

How ironic that the primary flaw in “My Brooklyn” is the insistent pre...

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Haircutting at Jack’s Barbershop in downtown Brooklyn, in scene from ‘My Brooklyn’

Will Al Jazeera gets Al Ja-zero ratings in U.S.?

There’s really only one relevant question about the owners of the Qata...

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In this television image from Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden, right, listens as his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri speaks at an undisclosed location, in this image made from undated video tape broadcast by the station Monday April 15, 2002. Al-Jazeera editor-in-chief Ibrahim Hilal said the excerpts were from an hour-long video, complete with narration and graphics, delivered by hand to the station's Doha, Qatar offices a week ago. Writing at top right reads: Exclusive Al-Jazeera. At bottom right is the station's logo. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/APTN) ** TELEVISION OUT NO SALES **

Daddario keeps a cool head about 'Texas Chainsaw'

“It wasn’t a chainsaw I had — it was a pitchfork,” Alexandra Daddario...

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Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D

TV Review: 'Downton Abbey'

WITH THE Great War over, season three of “Downton Abbey” refocuses its...

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Shirley MacLaine (r.) arrives as Martha Levinson, Cora’s mother, and provides a sparring partner for Maggie Smith (l.) as the Dowager Countess.

Lawsuit: Horses abused on HBO's 'Luck'

Horses on the ill-fated HBO series “Luck” were drugged and abused, a n...

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In this undated image released by HBO, Nick Nolte appears in a scene from the HBO original series "Luck." A drama set at a California racetrack, HBO canceled the horse racing series after a third horse died during the production of the series. (AP Photo/HBO, Gusmano Cesaretti )
Movie Reviews
PROMISED LAND, from left: Frances McDormand, Matt Damon, 2012. ph: Scott Green/©Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection

'Promised Land' breaks new ground

There’s a lot to admire about “Promised Land,” starting with the fact...

LES MISERABLES, from left: Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, 2012. ©Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

'Les Misérables’ worth all the Hugh and cry

Generally speaking, moviemaking is a formulaic endeavor — even if you’...

Christoph Waltz (l.) and Jamie Foxx are tracking trouble in ‘Django Unchained.’

‘Django Unchained’ lifts the western to new glory

Just when we thought Quentin Tarantino had shown us all the cojones he...

Agathe Bonitzer in ‘A Bottle in the Gaza Sea’

Message in ‘A Bottle in the Gaza Sea’

Some will dismiss the pacifist dreams of “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea” as...

Michael Apted, director of ‘56Up’ and the director of the previous installments of the series

Time is on the side of ‘56Up’

Fans of the BBC’s “7Up” documentary project can be excused for approac...

Billy Crystal and Bette Midler in “Parental Guidance”

Crystal & Midler can't babysit 'Parental Guidance'

How is it possible that no one thought to pair Bette Midler and Billy...

From left, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund go ‘On the Road.’

‘On the Road’ is hard to beat

Director Walter Salles has made an admirable effort to bring "On the R...

Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd team up as ‘This Is 40’s’ embattled couple.

Midlife can be monstrous on 'This Is 40’

There’s a funny movie scratching at the edges of “This is 40.” Unfortu...

THE IMPOSSIBLE, from left: Tom Holland, Naomi Watts, 2012, ph: Jose Haro/©Summit Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection

'The Impossible' manages the near impossible

As we all know, there are some tragedies that are nearly incomprehensi...

MONSTERS, INC. (3D) (L-R) MIKE, BOO and SULLEY. ©2012 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

The classic 'Monsters, Inc.' certainly worth another look

There have been several memorable movies for children this year, inclu...

Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand check in for the holidays with ‘The Guilt Trip.’

‘The Guilt Trip’ is Freudian slip

If you laid out the Freudian issues in Anne Fletcher’s “The Guilt Trip...

From left, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Lucy Punch and Alan Arkin frolic in ‘Stand Up Guys.’

‘Stand Up Guys’: Walken steals caper flick

This is the time of year in which we tend to look around, take stock a...

From left, Will Brill, Brahm Vaccarella, John Magaro, Jack Huston in “Not Fade Away”

Chase's 'Not Fade Away' has character flaws

Mood is more important to “Not Fade Away” than anything, but writer-di...

Damien Echols in “West of Memphis”

'West of Memphis' gets a little too personal

Previously chronicled in the trio of “Paradise Lost” documentaries, th...

Martin Freeman (center) stars as Bilbo Baggins in ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’

'The Hobbit' is too much a sight to behold

Over the last year, fans have expressed increasingly vocal concerns ab...

Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler are a divorced couple in ‘Playing for Keeps.’

‘Playing for Keeps’ doesn't score its goal

“Playing for Keeps” arrives as a relevant cultural artifact, sitting r...

Connie Britton and Edward Burns are on holiday in ‘The Fitzgerald Family Christmas.’

‘The Fitzgerald Family Christmas’ gives us holiday cheer

Like a Yuletide gift from an unpredictable relative, an Edward Burns m...

Suraj Sharma takes in the bioluminescent wonders of the sea in ‘Life of Pi.’

‘Life of Pi’ is formula for eye-popping success

Wrestling with spirituality onscreen can be exhausting, even when it c...

From left, Olivia Williams, Laura Linney and Bill Murray in “Hyde Park on Hudson”

Bill Murray gets our vote as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'

Franklin Delano Roosevelt isn’t the first President to hit movie scree...

Jude Law and Keira Knightley star in ‘Anna Karenina.’

‘Anna Karenina’ has classic look, but...

An ambitious effort that only fails in spite of itself, Joe Wright’s g...

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper take a bumpy romantic path in ‘Silver Linings Playbook.’

‘Silver Linings Playbook’ is good as gold

If there’s anything we can learn from David O. Russell’s “Silver Linin...

Brad Pitt and Scoot McNairy in “Killing Them Softly”

'Killing Them Softly' is the Pitt(s)

The connection between gangsters and American aspiration isn’t new. Fr...

   

Adam Levine to host 'SNL'

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - FEBRUARY 02: Singer Adam Levine performs onstage during VH1's Super Bowl Fan Jam at Indiana State Fairgrounds, Pepsi Coliseum on February 2, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Vh1)

NBC announced Thursday that the Maroon 5 frontman will step away from the mic to be the guest host on the Jan. 26 episode of the long-running sketch show.

Vieira drops S-bomb live on 'Today' show

Coldplay perform on the Today Show weekly concert series in Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan. Pictured is host Meredith Vieira catching a bra intended for singer Chris Martin.

TV vet Meredith Vieira dropped the S-bomb on live TV Thursday while filling in on the fourth hour of Today for Kathie Lee Gifford.

Movie review: ‘56Up’

  Peter at age 56, with his band, as seen in 56 UP, a film by Michael Apted. 

Fans of the BBC’s “7Up” documentary project can be excused for approaching each entry with hesitation. What's occurred that warrants a new visit?

Kristen Stewart: 'I don't want to deprive myself of any bit of life'

Like many other young women her age, Kristen Stewart took a cross country road trip to find herself. Unlike most, however, she did it through her latest film, "On the Road."

Sirius XM exec Tim Sabean takes second try at green shake diet - with a little help of the diet's authors

Robin Quivers is running in the ING New York City Marathon for children's nutrition with the Sylvia Center and Family Cook Productions.

Tim Sabean, who runs Howard Stern’s Sirius XM channels, joined Robin Quivers a few years back on a diet of green shakes that helped them detox and shed tons of weight....

Movie review: ‘A Bottle in the Gaza Sea’

Agathe Bonitzer in ‘A Bottle in the Gaza Sea’

Some will dismiss the pacifist dreams of “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea” as naive, but has anyone come up with a better solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

D.C./B’way mashup meme: Les Fiscal Miserables

A new Tumblr meme finds similarities between Capitol Hill and "Les Miz" melodrama. 

A new Internet meme shows that the classic tearjerker “Les Miserables” is much more funny when paired with Capitol Hill histrionics.

Bazinga! Species of bee named after ‘Big Bang Theory’ character's catch phrase

"The Toast Derivation" -- When the gang starts hanging out at Raj's, Sheldon (Jim Parsons) decides to get a new group of friends, on THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, Feb. 24 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Right Reserved.

"Big Bang Theory" physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper has a buzzy new claim to fame. The geeky TV character, who counts Britain's Stephen Hawking among his online friend, has had a species of bee named after...

Griffin: I'm not apologizing for 'trying to go down on Anderson Cooper'

Kathy Griffin Tells Letterman 'I Tried To Blow Anderson Cooper'

Kathy Griffin is blowing off the controversy surrounding her brazen attempt to simulate oral sex on co-host Anderson Cooper during CNN’s live coverage on New Year’s Eve.

'Field of Dreams' farm bought by group including Wade Boggs

This July 14, 2004, aerial photo shows the Field of Dreams baseball field in rural Dyersville, Iowa. The town is considering a $38 million plan to turn the farmland around the famous cornfield diamond into a marquee destination for traveling youth baseball teams. While the plan could provide an economic jolt to the region, it also has unleashed an emotional battle as the town of 4,000 tries to decide if they should build it. 

Wade Boggs is going the distance. An investment group that includes the Hall of Famer has completed its purchase of the Dyersville, Iowa farm where the iconic Kevin Costner baseball movie "Field of Dr...

ESPN adding Lewis? Network mum on rumblings

Ray Lewis announces Wednesday that this postseason will be his last with the Ravens.

Is Ray Lewis headed to ESPN? On Thursday, the network declined to confirm a report that the Ravens linebacker is "on the verge" of signing a deal with ESPN.

Al Gore set to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera

Former Vice President and Current TV founder Al Gore, right, speaks with Cenk Uygur, host of the network’s newest primetime series “The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur," Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 in Los Angeles. Gore, a guest on the show, discussed the upcoming elections and other political news in an interview that aired on Current TV on 7:00pm EST.

The nation's second-largest TV operator, Time Warner Cable Inc., dropped Current after the deal was confirmed Wednesday, a sign that the channel will have an uphill climb to expand its reach.

Jennifer Lawrence: 'Acting is stupid'

Vanity Fair's February cover featuring Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence.

Self-effacing beauty says compared to doctors who save lives and firemen, 'I'm just making movies'

Senate panel opens 'Zero Dark Thirty' probe

A still from “Zero Dark Thirty,” which opens in New York City on Wednesday.

After the Senate Intelligence Committee's chairwoman expressed outrage over scenes that imply "enhanced interrogations" of CIA detainees produced a breakthrough in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the pa...

Why the world keeps falling for 'Les Miserables'

A neighbor caught my ear as he locked his bike to a lamppost on our block two weeks ago. He was humming while he was at it, and I recognized a melody from “Les Miserables” immediately. I silently fill...

'Downton Abbey' fans get peek inside Highclere Castle

The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. With the return of its all-star cast plus guest star Academy Award®-winner Shirley MacLaine, Downton Abbey, Season 3 airs over seven Sundays on PBS beginning in January 2013.

Highclere Castle is a big old building 70 miles west of London, a fact that would be of little interest to the average American television viewer except that over the last two years it has also become...

Shirley MacLaine says 'Downton Abbey' castle is haunted

Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson in the third season of “Downton Abbey”

Apparently the walls at “Downton Abbey” can talk. So claims Oscar-winning Hollywood spiritualist Shirley MacLaine, who stars in the hit show’s third season (debuting on Sunday).

'Best Funeral Ever' dead on arrival

The casket being carried out.

Turning a funeral into a celebration of someone’s life is hardly the worst idea ever, and the crazy “homegoing” parties documented in “Best Funeral Ever” aren’t the reason the show sometimes gets unco...

Kourtney Kardashian shows off dramatic weight loss

Kourtney Kardashian says she danced the weight off with the cardio-intensive exercise routines of fitness expert Tracy Anderson.

Kourtney Kardashian managed to drop 44 pounds in six months after the birth of her second child, but it was not easy. "It was harder to lose weight the second time around," Kardashian said. “I gained...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt of ‘Dark Knight Rises’ may play Star-Lord in superhero epic ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

“Guardians of the Galaxy” concept art. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s competitors for the Star-Lord role include “Zero Dark Thirty” star Joel Edgerton, “Cloud Atlas’” Jim Sturgess, “Boardwalk Empire” alum Jack Huston and Zachary Levi of “Chuck.”

As if being the next potential Batman weren’t enough, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is reportedly circling Marvel Studios’ superhero epic “Guardians of the Galaxy.” The 31-year-old “The Dark Knight Rises” st...

Samuel L. Jackson challenges TV interviewer to use ‘N-word’ on air

Samuel L. Jackson poses for a portrait in promotion of DJANGO UNCHAINED, on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

Say the N-Word, and I'll answer your question. That's what "Django Unchained" star Samuel L. Jackson told a shocked TV interviewer recently.

Russell Crowe hits back at Adam Lambert’s Les Mis slam

  LES MISERABLES, Russell Crowe, 2012.

Add Russell Crowe to the chorus voicing opinions about the quality of singing in the new film adaptation of “Les Miserables.”

Bob Jones, long-time WNEW-AM host, dies

WNEW radio personality Bob Jones passed awwy after battling non-hodgkins lymphoma.

Bob Jones, host of “The Milkman’s Matinee,” “The Make-Believe Ballroom” and others shows on the late WNEW-AM, died Saturday. He had been suffering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Meet Lily Rabe, the twister Sister on FX's 'Horror Story'

Lily Rabe, who plays Sister Mary Eunice, says the Devil has “corrupted” so much of her character.

Throat-slashing, backstabbing and fetishes — all part of your average day at Briarcliff Manor — the twisted insane asylum and second season-setting of FX’s thriller, “American Horror Story.”

Television review: 'The Biggest Loser'

THE BIGGEST LOSER -- Episode 1402 -- Pictured: (l-r) Lindsay Bravo, Dolvett Quince, Sunny Chandrasekar, Jillian Michaels, Bob Harper, Noah "Blingo" Grey -- (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC)

“The Biggest Loser” starts its 14th season with a miniseries and a potentially admirable twist. Opening with a pair of two-hour shows on consecutive nights may be a little more “Biggest Loser” than mo...

Celebrating Halloween on 'Here Comes Honey Boo'

Alana (Honey Boo Boo) Thompson (foreground) and her family in full Halloween makeup on their “Holladay” special

Halloween may be long gone, but the frights are far from over. TLC puts the Boo in “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” Sunday at 9 p.m. with a Halloween special featuring America’s favorite rednecks.

'Lord of the Rings' sound editor dies in rafting tragedy

Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins pose with their Achievement In Sound Editing award for "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" during the 75th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater on March 23, 2003 in Hollywood, California.

Mike Hopkins, the Academy Award-winning sound editor for the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, drowned Sunday after his inflatable raft was slammed by a flash flood on a river in his native New Zealand. He...

CNN breaks news: Griffin simulates oral sex on Cooper

On Monday night's program, after first telling co-host Anderson Cooper "I'm going to tickle your sack," she shortly after midnight actually kissed his crotch

Kathy Griffin, who dropped the F bomb in 2009 on CNN's New Year's Eve coverage, outdid herself Tuesday night in her quest to shock co-host Anderson Cooper by referring to his genitalia on air and late...

Ex-Green Beret Joseph Teti joins survivalist Cody Lundin in 'Dual Survival'

Joe Teti and Cody Lundin in Maui, Hawaii.

He survived a decade of combat in the world's harshest and most dangerous theater of war, now this super warrior is testing his ability to stay alive — on TV.

TV review: 'Storage Wars: New York'

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We don't seem at all tired of reality shows where people search for treasure, whether it’s Alaska gold or discontinued lines of shoes. So A&E probably has another winner when it follows seven New York...

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2012's Best Video Games

Best shooter video games of 2012

The art of the shooter video game has matured over the years. And if you paid attention, you noticed that continuously throughout 2012. A genre that’s long made its name on gradually perfect mechanics and graphical glitz and an ability to place increasing amounts of gamers into wild multiplayer mayhem now regularly includes RPG elements, deep stories and decisions.

Best action/adventure video games of 2013

You won't find a more crowded category of video game than the action/adventure genre. It's an easy brand of game to make, really, with well-worn titles such as Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and, digging even farther back into gaming's past, Legacy of Kain, around to lead the way.

Best action/adventure video games of 2013

You won't find a more crowded category of video game than the action/adventure genre. It's an easy brand of game to make, really, with well-worn titles such as Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and, digging even farther back into gaming's past, Legacy of Kain, around to lead the way.

Best motion-conrolled video games of the year: 2012

The next generation of video games is all about touch controls and tablet gaming. But that doesn't mean motion controls are disappearing at all.

Top Sports Video Games of 2012

Bar none, the best sports game of the year was NBA 2K13.

With a little more than two weeks left in 2012 – and 12 days until Christmas – it’s time to take a look back at the video game year that was. We start the roundup in sports.

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