Ladies will continue to drive the feature lineup at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as Robert Redford's independent-cinema fair celebrates its 30th anniversary next month in Park City,...

Nobody ever accused Spike Lee of an overabundance of subtlety.   He's an unapologetically bold filmmaker, one who hasn't shied away from using a tattered American flag or a...

Forgetting Penelope Cruz is almost 40-years-old is easy to do.   Even when she bears heavy makeup to add wrinkles for her role as Gemma in the wartime melodrama "Twice Born,"...

If there were ever a season to learn, via the movies, about crucial periods of history, it's this one. Last month we were introduced to "12 Years a Slave," Steve McQueen's...

Instead of the bygone damsels in distress — yes we're talking about you Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty — the female royals of "Frozen," Disney's latest...

A child is born, a family is healed, and a sermon on forgiveness is delivered with sledgehammer subtlety in "Black Nativity," a bold but clumsy attempt to bring Langston Hughes' popular...

Alexa Davalos has handled her share of rough-and-tumble action in movies including "The Chronicles of Riddick," ''The Mist" and "Clash of the Titans."   But...

In the new movie "Delivery Man," Vince Vaughn plays a sperm donor who learns he's fathered more than 500 kids.   In the past, that kind of scenario might have been the set up...

Rick Santorum was glad-handing a friendly crowd at a cocktail reception the other night, seeking support just as he did for many grueling months on the 2012 campaign trail for the Republican...

Ask any good chef: why do some recipes work, while others, with the very same ingredients, do not? Ah, but it's the QUALITY of the ingredients that matters, that chef will probably...