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As Sally Field aged, her parts got less interesting - until ‘Hello, My Name Is Doris’

Even a pair of Oscars won’t guarantee good roles – at least not forever. Sally Field could have stayed busy playing supportive wives and concerned mothers for the rest of her career. But bey...

DATE: Mar 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

'The Revenant' is turning Leonardo DiCaprio into a legend

Not even Chuck Norris could have endured the kinds of horrors frontiersman Hugh Glass survived. In 1823, Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear but managed to crawl 200 miles - with a broken leg...

DATE: Dec 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Review: Point Break

It takes a very special director to make scenes of sky-diving, free climbing, big-wave surfing and BASE jumping something to yawn at. Yet Ericson Core must be that kind of miracle worker, be...

DATE: Dec 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Taxi

Jafar Panahi can’t be stopped from making movies. In 2010, the acclaimed Iranian director was sentenced by his government to six years in prison – along with a concurrent, 20-year...

DATE: Dec 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Burnt

Everything you need to know about Adam Jones, the difficult cooking prodigy at the center of “Burnt,” you glean from the movie’s opening scenes. Adam is the kind of guy who punish...

DATE: Oct 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Aaron Sorkin doesn't want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic

“Steve Jobs” is barely in theaters and already enraged fact checkers are out in full force. “Maybe they should have called it ‘iLied,’” Kyle Smith of the New York Post mocked. And...

DATE: Oct 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Goosebumps

What’s creepier than a clown? A sinister ventriloquist’s dummy with an evil mind of its own, for one thing. In the family-friendly “Goosebumps,” you get both – along with a giant, angry pray...

DATE: Oct 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Pan

When the Peter Pan of “Pan” first spies Neverland, he’s just flown in on an airborne pirate ship, only to be greeted by hundreds of buccaneers serenading their captain with a rendition of Ni...

DATE: Oct 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Mr. Holmes

Sherlock Holmes’s most notable qualities are his deerstalker hat, his pipe and his unfailing intellect. None of these iconic flourishes are on display in “Mr. Holmes.” But in their place we ...

DATE: Jul 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Here are 8 types of people who keep getting second chances in Hollywood

Hollywood is a surprisingly forgiving town given how hard it is to break into the industry. What does it take to get blacklisted? Apparently nothing, other than maybe spouting off...

DATE: Jul 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Review: I’ll See You in My Dreams

“I’ll See You in My Dreams” starts with a gut punch. Carol Peterson, a Los Angeles widow and retired schoolteacher who spends most of her days (and all of her nights) with her yellow lab Haz...

DATE: Jun 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

'Serial' creators talk season two and why online forums can be 'sort of horrible'

Sarah Koenig is a vault when it comes to season two of her podcast “Serial,” which airs this fall. “It’s a very different kind of story,” she says before pausing for a hope-induci...

DATE: Jun 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment