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Oh, if only Robert Aldrich were alive! The pulpmeister of the horror lollapalooza “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” certainly knew how to build a grand showcase for his corrugated divas (Bette Davis and Joan Crawford), while the hapless Jon Avnet...

MICHELLE WILLIAMS has an Academy Award nomination, the open adulation of major filmmakers and a résumé that is striking in its worldliness and creative ambition. But if her career has seemed to progress almost inconspicuously, it is partly because of...

President Pervez Musharraf showed continued defiance on Sunday to threats of impeachment, saying through aides that he wanted to see the formal charges before making any decision to leave office. But on Monday morning, his office announced that he would...

DESPITE appearances in movies like Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” and Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes,” Steve Coogan, the star of the indie comedy “Hamlet 2,” which opens Friday, is scarcely known in the United States, unless...

“Tropic Thunder,” a controversial movie industry spoof from Paramount and its disbanding DreamWorks unit, took in an estimated $26 million at the weekend box office, knocking “The Dark Knight” out of the No. 1 spot after an extraordinary...

Batman fever continued over the weekend, with ticket sales for “The Dark Knight” far outpacing the competition and breaking a fresh batch of box-office records.

LOS ANGELES - Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box-office superheroes. “The Dark Knight” took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for “Spider-Man...

At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength, the tacky-sounding “Kung Fu Panda” is high concept with a heart. Even better, this animated feature from DreamWorks is so consistently diverting and visually arresting that it succeeds in transcending its...

Imagine a mash-up of the campy 1962 chiller “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,” starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Arnold Bennett’s 1908 novel “The Old Wives’ Tale.” Then imagine the result rewritten as a Gothic novel by an amateur...