The pre-movie chat went something like this: Turn off your iPhones, don’t try to sneak an Instagram picture or two during the show, and learn about the human element of a historical figure whose courage shattered seemingly indestructible racial barriers.
Movies
A typical movie theater sound system operates at around 4,000 watts. For four days this week, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace trembled under the power of a spleen-shimmying 495,000 watts.
You don’t go to Tom Cruise movies to think.
What: “Oblivion”
The Motion Picture Association of America announced changes to its movie rating system Tuesday, saying it wants to help parents make informed decisions at the multiplex.
Canes in hand and bowler hats firmly in place, dozens of Charlie Chaplin impersonators tramped through the streets of a small port town in western India on Tuesday to celebrate the birthday of the legendary comic actor and filmmaker.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
LOS ANGELES — Aubrey Plaza interrupted Will Ferrell’s acceptance speech at the MTV Movie Awards, then left the building.
Given the game’s inherent poetry, it’s nearly impossible to make a bad baseball movie.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
NEW YORK — She was the first crush for a generation of boys, the perfect playmate for a generation of girls.
Take away the woefully rudimentary computers, Laura Dern’s mom jeans and Samuel L. Jackson’s hair, and it has all the trappings of a modern blockbuster.
CHICAGO — Roger Ebert, the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism who, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.