Movies

• 'WALL-E' review: Do 4-year-olds like masterpieces too? - 6/29/2008

  Well, here it is: The first near-silent, post-apocalyptic, anti-consumerist animated film of the 21st century. Is it good? Oh yeah. Is it good for a 4-year-old? Eh. Not so much.

  
• WALL-E is latest in long line of compelling heroes - 6/29/2008

  The title character in "WALL-E," Pixar's futuristic spellbinder, is a funky little metallic contraption that looks like a crazed blend of farm tractor and old-style CPU. A trash-collecting robot, he relies on solar power to keep going. He has...

  
• 'WALL-E' is a stirring adventure - 6/27/2008

  Pixar Studios' mascot is a bouncy, swing-arm Luxo lamp that hops across the screen with the happy-go-lucky energy you'd expect from Bugs Bunny, not a minimalist piece of spring-balanced steel. If Pixar can imbue a simple desk light with that much...

  
• New on DVD and top local Netflix picks - 6/24/2008

  10,000 BC
  Bonneville
  Charlie Bartlett
  Definitely, Maybe
  The Hammer
  In Bruges
  Persepolis
  Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
  The Spiderwick Chronicles

  
• Carell, Hathaway 'Get Smart' as new Max, Agent 99 - 6/22/2008

  Steve Carell did not necessarily see the Maxwell Smart in himself. Everyone else did, including co-star Anne Hathaway and the studio behind the big-screen "Get Smart," which simply called Carell in and offered him the job, no questions asked.

  
• New at the movies - 6/22/2008

  GET SMART — What began life on TV as a classic sitcom that cleverly satirized Cold War espionage has been transformed for the big screen as just another standard action picture. Pity, too. Because Agent Maxwell Smart himself would have made a...

• ‘Get Smart’ review: Would you believe it’s just OK? - 6/21/2008

  Is it too late to go back and make the whole thing about Bill Murray in that tree? I love Agent 13. That’s my movie: “Agent 13.” Tagline: "There’s nowhere left to hide." (It’s a work in progress.)

  
• Vintage Mike Myers in 'The Love Guru' - 6/20/2008

  Mike Myers goofs it old school with "The Love Guru," his first non-Shrek role in ages, a film that flies in the face of all that is Apatow in today's screen comedy.

  
• AFI names top 10 films in 10 genres: Did they get it right? - 6/17/2008

  Who knew the American Film Institute was so gutsy? It released a list that not only didn’t give every No. 1 spot to “Citizen Kane,” it had no place at all for “Citizen Kane” in 10 categories.

  
• New on DVD: 'Fool's Gold' and more - 6/17/2008

  DVD TUESDAY

  
• Rome church bans Dan Brown's 'Angels & Demons' - 6/16/2008

  (ROME) — Rome's diocese said Monday it has barred the producers of "Angels & Demons" from filming in two churches for the prequel to the "The Da Vinci Code," the popular book by Rye Beach author Dan Brown that angered many Catholic...

  
• Will M. Night Shyamalan's new R-rated film scare up bigger box-office numbers? - 6/15/2008

  PHILADELPHIA — As he waits for his beverage at a Starbucks along West Chester Pike, the portly, middle-aged businessman has no idea of the sinister plot being hatched behind his back.

  
• New at the movies - 6/15/2008

  THE HAPPENING — Not much happens in fright specialist M. Night Shyamalan's latest. "The Sixth Sense" director effectively delivers his usual broody air of foreboding. And this fear-mongering story of an airborne toxin that causes victims to...

• Jolie pitted against Aniston in box-office tussle - 6/14/2008

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are sharing a play date.