In a summer crowded with superhero movies, some films are aiming to appeal to audiences that want a break from comic books.
This season, a number of smaller films are courting viewers in search of movies that deal with real life — especially with high school.
One of these coming films takes a look at the harsh [...]

 
When we last saw Indiana Jones 19 years ago, the intrepid archeologist had sacrificed the Holy Grail but finally won the respect of his father, ending the classic film trilogy on an emotional high note. But wait, there’s more! The new “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” pits our hero against Russian [...]

M. Night Shyamalan says his new film, “The Happening,” will terrify moviegoers.
“It is an extremely scary movie. This is meant to scare you,” the Indian-born director told reporters Monday. Shyamalan, 37, was visiting India to receive one of the country’s highest civilian awards for his contribution to cinema.
Mark Wahlberg plays a schoolteacher on the run [...]

 
On June 6 a new Adam Sandler comedy — its pseudomysterious, catchphrase-ready title is “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” — will open across the country. This is hardly a surprising piece of news, since a new Adam Sandler comedy comes around just about every spring or summer. Last year was “I Now Pronounce You [...]

 
He soars through the night sky, disrupts military aviation, wages holy war against those twin bastions of evil, terrorists and corporate bigwigs. He’s Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), zillionaire industrialist, and he arrives accompanied by the POW!, BANG! and KA-BOOM! suitable for a movie based on a comic book, but with lots more intelligence than [...]

You hear that Harrison Ford is not an easy man to be in a room with. Combative as an interviewee, defensive as a person, you read that he is pernickety, brusque, that he challenges every question. He doesn’t want to give anything away. That is part of his charisma.
I am in the beachy luxury of [...]

Long-maned actor Jeff Bridges got into a little method acting to play Obadiah Stane, the flinty elder warmonger of Iron Man.
He happily shaved his head bald for this character of highly questionable ethics, who stands opposite Robert Downey Jr. in the latest Marvel Comics superhero movie, opening Thursday.
“It was wonderful,” Bridges says on the wire [...]

Forget the battle of the box office. This summer will mark a showdown of movie toys.
More than 2,000 toys and 6,000 other merchandising tie-ins — from fast-food trinkets to life-size, limited-edition busts — are flooding stores to coincide with summer’s biggest movies, including Iron Man, Speed Racer, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal [...]

 
David Duchovny is sitting on the porch of a farmhouse about an hour north of Vancouver, squinting into the wintry afternoon sun. It’s late in the process of shooting The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and he’s pondering the choice Agent Mulder had to make in the series finale: perfect happiness or the truth? ”I [...]

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