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Box Office: How Did 'Big Hero 6' Rocket Past 'Interstellar'?
Even as recently as a week ago, "Interstellar" looked like not only the likely winner of this weekend's box office derby but also the first surefire blockbuster of the season. After all, buzz has been...
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The 30 Best Horror Movies of the Past 30 Years
The slasher movie, if we'll admit it to ourselves, is about our fears of teen sexuality. Whether you're a teen made nervous by your own hormones or a parent afraid of what trouble those hormones will...
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'The Little Mermaid' Facts: 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Disney...
Hard to imagine, but there was a time, before the release of "The Little Mermaid," when even Disney's own studio chief didn't expect much from the movie because it was a "girl's film." But Jeffrey...
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On TV, No Idea Ever Truly Dies
"Everything dies, baby, that's a fact," sang Bruce Springsteen in the song "Atlantic City." "But maybe everything that dies someday comes back." The Boss might have been singing about this week's...
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Box Office: How Did 'Dumb and Dumber To' Overpower 'Big Hero 6'?
Poor Lloyd and Harry. The perpetual underachievers of the "Dumb and Dumber" movies have been underestimated by everyone. Certainly, few pundits expected much from "Dumb and Dumber To," the poorly...
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Mike Nichols Movies: 18 Essential Films You Should Watch Right Now
Few directors can be said to have changed the way films are made, but Mike Nichols, who died Wednesday at 83, was one of them. His first film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), ended decades of...
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The 25 Best Christmas Movies Ever Made
Am I the only one who finds most Christmas movies hypocritical? They spend tens of millions on lavish productions, recreating Santa's workshop or some such, all to tell us that Christmas is not about...
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What in the World Is Going on at 'The Today Show'?
The most striking thing about Thursday's episode of the "Today" show may have been what you didn't see: No empty chair where Natalie Morales usually sits (she was there, calmly reading the news, as...
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Box Office: Why Did 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' Have the Weakest...
It seems weird to call a movie that premiered with an estimated $123 million weekend, the biggest box office opening of the year, a disappointment. And yet, by the lofty standards of the "Hunger Games"...
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33 Things on TV to Be Thankful for This Thanksgiving
At this time of year, it's good to be reminded that contemporary TV offers such a cornucopia of riches. This past year, in particular, has offered plenty to give thanks for -- in terms of both what's...
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The 35 Greatest Murder Mystery Movies Ever Made
Murder mysteries are so commonplace on TV that each week offers seemingly dozens of them on police procedural series and detective shows. But in the movies, whodunits are surprisingly rare, and really...
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Box Office: What's Behind the Thanksgiving Box Office Slump?
Was everyone in a tryptophan coma this weekend from eating too much turkey? Is that why no one went to the movies? Expectations were high for this Thanksgiving weekend's box office. After all, it's the...
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Why Are There No Women Late-Night Talk Show Hosts?
See if you can figure out what these 10 performers have in common: Judd Apatow, Will Arnett, Wayne Brady, Drew Carey, Jim Gaffigan, Billy Gardell, Sean Hayes, Thomas Lennon, John Mayer, and Kunal...
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Oscar Race 2015: Where Are the Front-Runners?
Either there were a lot of great movies and performances in 2014, or there weren't very many at all. Neither scenario makes it easy to pick consensus front-runners this year, as the awards bestowed...
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'The Green Mile': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Stephen King Classic
No one was sure, when "The Green Mile" was released 15 years ago this week (on December 10, 1999), whether lightning could strike twice in the same spot for Frank Darabont. Sure, the writer/director's...
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The 2015 Golden Globe Nominations: Snubs and Surprises
Surprises and snubs from Thursday morning's announcement of the 2015 Golden Globe nominees are to be expected; the Globe voters can't nominate every worthy person, movie, and TV show, and yet they...
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The 17 Best Scrooges in TV and Movie History
Pity the actor who has to play Ebenezer Scrooge. You have to go from convincingly nasty to convincingly nice, with convincingly terrified along the way. And while everyone is rooting for your...
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Do We Expect Too Much From TV?
Here we are, supposedly living in the new Golden Age of Television, and yet we're still whining all over the Internet about what we're watching. Just look at this past week. People whined about NBC's...
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Oscar Race 2015: Hollywood Weighs In
Which was the bigger snub last week for Angelina Jolie? Being dissed by Sony Pictures brass in the notorious leaked e-mails, or having her movie "Unbroken" get passed over by the Screen Actors Guild...
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'Gone With the Wind' Facts: 25 Things You Never Knew About the Most Popular...
Seventy-five years after the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" (on December 15, 1939), it seems that nothing -- not the passage of time, not the movie's controversial racial politics, not the film's...
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