In “Disconnect,” opening Friday, Jason Bateman’s character essentially has an emotional affair with his phone, which rips his family apart. Still, he fares somew...

Chadwick Boseman delivers a crowd-pleasing performance in “42.” Which was a problem. The crowd was supposed to boo. While filming the biopic, in which the Howard Universit...

There goes Danny Boyle again, venturing deep into the mind of another main character. It’s what the director did with “Trainspotting,” “127 Hours” and “Slumdog Mil...

“Jurassic Park 3D” opened last week, 20 years after the flat version stomped into theaters. I will not be seeing it. Though 2-D-to-3-D conversion has gotten immeasurably b...

Oh, of course your kid enjoys a night at the symphony, probably preceded by a tasting menu that is emphatically chicken-nugget-free. Getting most kids exposed to music and the...

With “42” out Friday, non-sports-history people probably think there’s finally a movie about Douglas Adams (non-Adams people just missed that joke). It’s the jersey nu...

Cameron Carpenter is coming after “The Old Rugged Cross.” He has nothing against old-timey hymns, but he is tired of the church, the concert hall and the castle being the ...

Welcome to Schenectady, N.Y., first settled in 1661, a city where Thomas Edison lived and worked, where the rotary engine and air brakes were born, where the police badge port...

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel were the first people I ever heard discuss movies with deep, intelligent passion. I always liked Ebert better, and I really don’t think I...

In “The Place Beyond the Pines,” out Friday, Ryan Gosling’s character takes up pet-sitting to make extra cash. Except by “pet” we mean “bank” and by “sitting' ...

Go get a snack. Now take a bite. Now chew. Chew some more. And some more. In fact, chew it for 10 minutes, until it’s entirely liquid. We’ll wait. Now swallow. Such thorou...

“My husband asked, ‘How is this even a portrait?’ ” says Dorothy Moss, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery, as we sit and watch “Buffalo Milk Yogurt,” a s...

“The Sapphires” is an Australian movie about four Aboriginal women who tour Vietnam in 1968 with their Irish manager while singing American music. Small world, huh? The mo...

The movie poster for “The Host,” opening Friday, features your typical teen-love-triangle image: Saoirse Ronan is front and center with a thousand-yard stare, while co-sta...

Oh, how I hate Bella Swan. The heroine of the “Twilight” saga offends me as a woman, as a feminist and, most importantly, as a “Buffy” fan. I could go on and on [and o...