High School Musical: Senior Year **½ ...more

February 19, 2009

The Duchess *** Keira Knightley corsets up again to play Georgiana Spencer, notorious ancestress of the late Princess Diana, in this adaptation of the biography by Amanda Foreman. Georgiana became a fashion plate and celebrity after her unhappy marriage to an older, colder man (the Duke of Devonshire, played by Ralph Fiennes), but comes across as a somewhat tragic figure. ...more

December 26, 2008

This week's new DVD releases. ...more

December 23, 2008

IGOR ** Dr. Frankenstein himself could not revive "Igor," an animated comedy about a hunchbacked lab assistant playing at mad scientist. ...more

September 19, 2008

For two decades, Robert Kearns waged an obsessive crusade against the auto industry, which he accused of stealing his invention. It destroyed his marriage, brought on a mental breakdown and may have cost him millions. ...more

August 15, 2008

Tasty Morsels On TV This Week "Top Chef: Chicago," noon to 11 p.m. today, Bravo ...more

May 27, 2008

That this is an overstuffed melodrama, better suited for broadcast as a TV movie of the week than as a theatrical release, is bad enough. That it comes from Robert Benton, a veteran whose output has slowly, steadily declined in quality since writing 'Bonnie and Clyde' and writing and directing 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' is just plain sad. ...more

September 28, 2007

OPENING Across the Universe **½ Inspired by the music of the Beatles, director Julie Taymor's sprawling musical starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess is visually imaginative but frequently plays like a bad night at a karaoke bar. 134 minutes (PG-13; drug content, nudity, sexuality and violence) ...more

September 28, 2007