Iron Man and Batman rubbed elbows with Dracula and Frankenstein at a recent family-friendly event. ...more

November 4, 2009

Robert Downey Jr. is officially back in the superhero business. ...more

April 8, 2009

If these shops could only talk. Over the 80 years it has occupied the spot, a commercial building on North Pinellas Avenue at Athens Street has seen a lot of changes in an area that once was part of this city's thriving sponge industry. ...more

March 7, 2009

Sometimes the bull wins. But more often than not, it's a rider like "Iron Man" Luke Snyder. ...more

February 5, 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

What's been speculated for weeks became official Saturday: The University of South Florida is officially headed to the magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl. ...more

December 7, 2008

Suresh Joachim (YOH'-kum), of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra (wahv-RA'), of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square. ...more

October 8, 2008

It has been a summer of big numbers at the movies. A dozen films - including "Iron Man," "Hancock" and "Wall-E" - each have made $100 million or more in ticket sales. "The Dark Knight" has raked in almost $518 million, surpassing "Star Wars" as No. 2 on the list of all-time box office leaders and fueling speculation it could beat 1997's "Titanic" to become all-time champion. ...more

September 20, 2008

Times may be tough in the real world. Not in Hollywood. As it usually does during economic downturns, the movie business has come on strong, expected to set a summer revenue record of about $4.2 billion from the first weekend in May through Labor Day, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers. ...more

September 5, 2008

MOVIE TIMES Movie listings are submitted by Bay area theaters. They are subject to change without notice. These listings reflect only today's movie times. ...more

August 28, 2008