In the misty glade and dusky bog of your memories, can you recall a time when zombies weren't money? The first "Zombieland" came out in 2009, a year before "The Walking Dead" premiered on AMC, back before "World War Z," back before that lousy "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" movie with Blackbeard's zombie crew. Back before a lot of ...Read more

Scotty Bowers was Hollywood's sexual matchmaker during its golden era, a time when its famous stars -- both straight and gay -- had to keep their private lives tucked in the shadows. Or so he said.

A former U.S. marine, gas station attendant and bartender, Bowers -- known as Hollywood's "male madame" -- claimed to have slept with and set up ...Read more

BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON. 3 stars. A hard-partying woman (Jillian Bell) gets a wakeup call from her doctor and begins running, with the ultimate goal of entering the New York City Marathon. Sometimes, it's more about going the distance than winning. 1 hr. 44 R (language, drugs, sex) -- Gary Thompson

DOLEMITE IS MY NAME. 2.5 stars. Eddie Murphy ...Read more

"On some days, all of the beautiful things in my life break my heart."

So says Sean "Dud" Dudley, played by Wyatt Russell, in the beautiful, some days heartbreaking serial comedy "Lodge 49," whose second season finished Monday on AMC.

Set in Long Beach, Calif., the story centers on Dud, a surfer kept from the water by injury (snake bite in ...Read more

The top 10 DVD rentals at Redbox kiosks for the week of Oct. 7:

1. Spider-Man: Far From Home -- Sony

2. Toy Story 4 -- Disney

3. Annabelle Comes Home -- Warner

4. Aladdin (2019) -- Disney

5. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum -- Lionsgate

6. X-Men: Dark Phoenix -- Fox

7. Men in Black: International -- Sony

8. Midsommar -- Lionsgate

9. ...Read more

Once upon a time, a Hollywood movie didn't have to be so many things to so many people. It didn't have to set a new opening-weekend record, conquer multiple demographics or plant the seeds of a future franchise to be deemed a reasonable success. But times have changed and reasonable has long gone out the window. Witness the bigger-is-better ...Read more

Unlikely though it sounds, we have a need to laugh at Adolf Hitler, on the movie screen if nowhere else.

Some of our greatest comedy directors, from Charles Chaplin ("The Great Dictator") to Ernst Lubitsch (the brilliant "To Be or Not to Be") to Mel Brooks ("The Producers"), have used der Fuhrer as a figure of fun, trying, perhaps, to make a ...Read more

Sisterhood strong enough to last a Lifetime, the new TV movie "Patsy & Loretta" compresses 18 months of a tragically brief friendship between two country music legends into one pretty good biopic. But the performers lift it up to a higher level. Megan Hilty (who plays and sings Patsy Cline) and Chicago stage alum Jessie Mueller (who plays and ...Read more

The Black Keys had become a burden.

Blues-rock duo Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have known each other since elementary school in Akron, Ohio.

By the time of "Turn Blue" in 2014, the guitar band had been grinding for eight albums. Catching fire at the start of this decade with catchy hits like "Tighten Up," "Lonely Boy," and "Gold on the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Making a movie is a daunting task for a director. Everything from where to put a comma in the script to the color of a mythical creature's hair falls under the decisions they must make in the gamble that all the pieces come together to make the work successful.

Director Joachim Rønning ("Marco Polo") faced all the regular ...Read more

Ronan Farrow was not surprised that even before the official publication date of his bombshell-dropping book "Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators" people were calling him a liar.

"In most of the stories I report on, there are similar kind of smear campaigns that spin up," he said recently. "There's an effort to ...Read more