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Review: `The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser
May. 23, 2012 3:12 PM ET (AP)
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker....
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Review: Was anyone clamoring for `Men in Black 3'?
May. 22, 2012 6:53 PM ET (AP)
There's a moment early on in "Men in Black 3" when Will Smith's Agent J sits down next to his longtime partner, Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K, and bemoans the fact that he's too old for this sort of thing...
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Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O
May. 15, 2012 9:29 AM ET (AP)
Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover displaced by the sexual aid, the film never quite satisfies.
True to the title, there are...
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Review: `Girl in Progress' never really grows up
May. 9, 2012 11:48 AM ET (AP)
The strong, sexy presence of Eva Mendes and the girlish perkiness of Cierra Ramirez can only go so far to make the forced mother-daughter dramedy "Girl in Progress" tolerable.
It's a coming-of-age...
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Free comics? Zoiks! Promotion aims for new readers
May. 4, 2012 5:33 PM ET (AP)
Buoyed by big-budget superhero films this summer, retailers and publishers are poised to give away more than 3.5 million free comics at events aimed at building communities among longtime fans and at...