The shocking yet shoddy 'Bruno' is no 'Borat'

Senator owner lauded by theater group

Members of the Theatre Historical Society of America converged on the Senator Theatre Friday to laud owner Tom Kiefaber and lend their support to efforts aimed at keeping the 70-year-old movie house in operation.

BSO to bring the piercing strings of 'Psycho' to life this weekend

Taking a shower has never felt truly safe ever since Janet Leigh stepped under the spray in the bathroom of nondescript Cabin 1 at the Bates Motel, during the most famous scene of Alfred Hitchcock's stylish horror film from 1960, Psycho.

Art film's restoration is a work of art

A masterpiece of avant-garde filmmaking becomes a masterpiece of restoration with Manhatta.

'Plan 9': so bad it's good

A half-century after it was made, movies still don't come any worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space, Edward D. Wood Jr.'s grade-Z sci-fi opus about aliens looking to take over the Earth by raising the dead and having them ... well, having them do something ...

Coming soon to theaters

Opening Wednesday Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Warner Bros.) Harry starts his sixth year at Hogwarts and soon begins lessons with Dumbledore that reveal more about Voldemort's history in the hopes of learning how to defeat him. With...

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Paris Hilton set to take stand in film promo case

It's Paris Hilton's turn to tell her side of the story in a lawsuit claiming she didn't do enough to promote her 2006 sorority movie "Pledge This!"

George Clooney says he'll film in Italy's earthquake area

George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy's recent earthquake and told the survivors he'll shoot a film in their mountain region.

Mixing things up at the movies

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is less than a week away, and the bartenders at the Landmark Theater are quickly studying up on their film facts.

Trial begins in Paris Hilton film contract dispute

Paris Hilton has arrived for the Miami trial of a federal lawsuit accusing her of failing to adequately promote her 2006 movie "Pledge This!"

Jesse James Hollywood guilty of murder in crime that inspired 2007 film 'Alpha Dog'

Marijuana dealer Jesse James Hollywood faces a possible death sentence after his conviction for kidnapping and murdering a 15-year-old boy over an escalating drug debt, a crime that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog."

Richard Gere: Dog is hero in film about Japan tale

Richard Gere stars in a Hollywood remake of Japan's long-cherished story of Hachiko, a faithful dog that died at a train station waiting for its master. But "Hachi: A Dog's Story" is more about the dog than about Gere, the 59-year-old actor said Wednesday.

The Ambassador, sister theater to Senator, on the auction block

Two weeks before Baltimore's Senator Theatre goes on the auction block, a "sister theater" is being offered for sale the same way.

New on DVD: 'Push'

Set "two days from now," in a Hong Kong where you can't walk 10 yards without encountering someone with mutant powers (including a posse of Asians whose power consists of making bug eyes and bursting glass fish-tanks with their high-decibel shrieks), "Push" watches as a bunch of second-generation...

Stars gather in London for 'Harry Potter' premiere

The stars of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" are due to walk the red carpet at the film's premiere in London.