"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" leads the Academy Awards with 13 nominations, including best picture, and acting honors for Brad Pitt and Taraji Phenson, and a directing slot for David Fincher. ...more

January 23, 2009

The Oscars are at a crossroads and Batman is standing right in the middle of the road. Like the Scarecrow says in "The Wizard of Oz" (not "the Scarecrow" in "Batman Begins"), the Oscars can go this way, or they can go that way. ...more

January 19, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" lived up to its underdog theme at Sunday's Golden Globes, sweeping all four of its categories, including best drama and director for Danny Boyle. ...more

January 12, 2009

The Dark Knight **** ...more

December 12, 2008

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Frost/Nixon" led the Golden Globes on Thursday with five nominations each, among them best drama, while "Doubt" also has five, including four acting slots. Other best-drama nominees: "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road" and "Slumdog Millionare." ...more

December 11, 2008

"The Dark Knight" highlights this week's new DVD releases. ...more

December 9, 2008

Why so serious? The biggest movie of the summer will likely become the biggest DVD of the year as well. "The Dark Knight," with Heath Ledger's dark portrayal of the Joker, hits stores today. ...more

December 9, 2008

LOS ANGELES - A Warner Bros. executive says the Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" has taken in $155.34 million to top "Spider-Man 3" for best opening weekend ever at the box office. ...more

July 20, 2008

Here are the main things you need to know about "The Dark Knight": It is the best of the "Batman" movies. Actually, by my lights, it's the best movie in the superhero genre (move over, "Spider-Man 2"). ...more

July 17, 2008

As a service for those looking forward to the crème of the summer crop of movies, here are the movies previewed by Hernando Today that are opening in the next two weeks. ...more

June 27, 2008