Gladiator (movie)

Nearly all the bits and pieces in director Ridley Scott's"Prometheus" come from other movies — either one of Scott's or someone else's. More and more, though, I appreciate Scott's fundamental squareness as a filmmaker. "Prometheus" may be the"...

A Hollywood striver in the 1970s would have learned oodles from Sue Mengers — how to woo a client, sass a studio exec, host a dinner party, smoke a joint. And, had she pulled up a seat in Mengers' Beverly Hills living room one particularly gloomy...

Brian Tucker's "Broken City" screenplay is packed with plot twists, complex sentences and the kind of innuendo that make it seem as if the movie will be a smarter-than-most thriller from the first exchanges. All the talking is no doubt why "Broken City"...

Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment. Confession: Until last week, I hadn't...

Angelina Jolie is in talks to direct her first studio movie, "Unbroken," for Universal Pictures and Walden Media, Universal said Tuesday. Based on the bestselling book by Laura Hillenbrand ("Seabiscuit"), "Unbroken" centers on 1936 Olympian Louis...

NEW YORK -- Ever since Victor Hugo unleashed his five-volume novel on a politically minded France 150 years ago, "Les Miserables" has been generating tears and admirers across several forms of media. On Friday at Lincoln Center, Oscar winner Tom...

With films such as"Unstoppable"and "Man on Fire," Tony Scott told adrenaline-filled stories about fearless men — spies and cops, race car drivers and fighter pilots — who live by a code and face death on their own terms. He filled his...

Imagine the story of the Nativity recast as a Hollywood blockbuster — a sword-and-sandals epic loaded with expensive computer-generated effects, a disfigured, lecherous villain and enough hacked-off limbs, severed heads and stomach-turning...

Well-known for his acting skills, Ralph Fiennes adds his directing debut to his portrayal of the title role in this Shakespeare saga, adapted by John Logan ("Gladiator"). Coriolanus is a military man whose bid to secure other Romans' support in his...

A pack of Central Park Zoo animals could tromp on the king of science fiction at the box office this weekend. The animated 3-D family film "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" is expected to debut with about $55 million, according to those who have...

Two new 3-D films each debuted with $50 million or more at the box office this weekend, jumpstarting ticket sales at the multiplex after weeks of lackluster business. The weekend's winner was the animated "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,"which opened...

Shannon Boler is a master in the back for the Newport Harbor High girls' soccer team. Now all Boler needs to do is to master the art of doing a pull-up. The senior wants to play soccer in college, and a couple of the schools she's looking at are Air...