you know, those ravenous, re-animated corpses with the insatiable munchies for human-body bits - have been chewing up the big screen for more than 50 years. Their latest appearance, in this big-budget horror spoof that which mixes equal parts carnage and comedy, has become a bona fide box-office hit. ...more

October 23, 2009

SEASON 1 (not reviewed) The underwhelming performance of the big-screen remake starring Steve Carell probably won't move many units of this four-disc set featuring all 30 episodes of the TV original's 1965 season. Still, fans of Don Adams' secret agent and the spoofy storylines created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry may want to indulge by adding this to their collection. ...more

August 7, 2008

OPENED WEDNESDAY Hancock ** It's Independence Day. You know what that means - a new Will Smith movie. This time he plays Hancock, a hard-living superhero who's fallen from favor with the people he's supposed to help. Also stars Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. 92 minutes. (PG-13; some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence and language) ...more

July 4, 2008

KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL So at least "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" has a lot more on its mind - and a much more beneficial message for girls - than last summer's candy-coated movie-based-on-a-doll, "Bratz." ...more

July 3, 2008

OPENING Mongol (not Reviewed) Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, this action-adventure movie recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world, including Russia, in 1206. In Mongolian with English subtitles. 126 minutes (R; sequences of bloody warfare) ...more

June 26, 2008

10,000 BC *½ ...more

June 26, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Audiences still get Maxwell Smart. Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway's "Get Smart," the Warner Bros. big screen update of the 1960s spy sitcom, raked in $39.2 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie, according to studio estimates Sunday. ...more

June 22, 2008

New On DVD ...more

February 14, 2008

DEFINITELY, MAYBE *** Surely it's not too early to feel nostalgic for 1992. After all, it was 16 whole years ago. No iPods yet - and those clunky cell phones! Kurt Cobain was still alive and Bill Clinton hadn't even met Monica Lewinsky, much less have sexual relations with that woman. ...more

February 14, 2008

OPENING Definitely, Maybe *** A thirtysomething Manhattan dad (Ryan Reynolds) tries to explain his impending divorce and other past relationships to his precocious 10-year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin). 111 minutes (PG-13; sexual content, profanity and smoking) ...more

February 14, 2008