Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “Fury,” “The Best of Me,” “The Book of Life,” “Pride” and “The Green Prince”:
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The fifth annual underground film festival, billed as “where arthouse meets grindhouse,” will take place Thursday through Saturday.
A pilot for the proposed reality series “Postmortem in Vegas” debuts at 10 p.m. Wednesday on Lifetime Movie Network.
Despite predictably solid performances from Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, their movie just sort of lays there for a taxing 141 minutes, unsure of what it wants to be.
The Regal Downtown Summerlin 5 is the moviegoing experience Las Vegas has spent the past couple of years baby-stepping toward.
In the hands of novelist/screenwriter Gillian Flynn and director David Fincher, “Gone Girl’ is so full of first-rate shockers the fact that its oft-maligned co-star Tyler Perry is actually quite good barely cracks the top five.
They’re here to save you from the glut of reality shows centered around rednecks, storage lockers and drunken, brawling housewives.
Las Vegas native Matthew Gray Gubler, who’s kicking off his 10th season of playing Reid on “Criminal Minds” (9 p.m. Wednesday, KLAS-TV, Channel 8), was oblivious to the panic that was setting in across social media and fan sites after a life-threatening episode.
For one of the most head-scratching choices for a TV adaptation in recent memory — Honestly, what’s next? Vin Diesel in a gritty reboot of “The Father Dowling Mysteries”? — “The Equalizer” is immensely appealing and so much more entertaining than you’d expect.
The 25-year-old media buyer and Miss Michigan USA 2013 will attempt to outwit, outplay and outlast the competition starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday on KLAS-TV, Channel 8.
A handful of new fall series are likable or even promising, but almost everything feels like something you’ve seen before.
Movie has assembled one of the most likable casts in recent memory. But it’s awfully easy to get distracted as actor after actor from some of the past decade’s buzziest TV shows turns up in thinly drawn roles.
“The Drop” is a small, slow-burning character study stuffed with fully realized, lived-in characters.
His bio reads like those of many up-and-coming actors. But one thing separates Henderson’s Mace Coronel from the rest: He’s 10.
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “The Drop,” “Dolphin Tale 2,” “No Good Deed,” “Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?,” and “Something Wicked”: