The best action pictures aren't always the ones possessing the most spectacular stunts, the biggest explosions or the grandest special effects.  read more »

In its original incarnation, "Get Smart" was a late 1960s television series that spoofed the spy craze that was popular at the time.  read more »

In 2003, director Ang Lee released his interpretation of the Marvel Comics character, "Hulk."

In trying to intellectualize this most primal of stories and fantasy characters, Lee delivered a film that was basically lambasted as a boring dud.  read more »

In an era when animated movies are either populated by cute, witty animals known more for their celebrity voices ("Madagascar") or smitten by their own sense of hipness and irony ("Shrek" 1, 2 or 3), "Kung Fu Panda" arrives in theaters as a breath of fres  read more »

"Young @ Heart" is the name taken by a chorus of senior citizens from Northhampton, Mass., whose specialty is doing versions of pop and rock standards made famous by the likes of James Brown and The Ramones.  read more »

On July 7, 1947, something fell from the sky and crashed among the deserted outskirts of a Roswell, N.M., ranch. Then, military personnel from a nearby base closed off the crash site, collected debris and stamped a "Top Secret" classification upon the ent  read more »

At one point in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," one character confesses to another, "You cannot do the same thing twice."  read more »

There's an inclination to look at the advertisements for "Redbelt" and dismiss it as another in a long line of chop-socky, exploitative martial arts films or a Jackie Chan-like ripoff.  read more »

"Baby Mama" stars Tina Fey as Kate Holbrook, a 37-year-old, single, successful career woman who one day awakens to the sudden realization that her biological clock is ticking away and her maternal instincts are no longer willing to be suppressed.  read more »