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Christian Bale stars as Batman and Heath Ledger stars as The Joker in The Dark Knight.
Christian Bale stars as Batman and Heath Ledger stars as The Joker in The Dark Knight.

2008-07-17 11:51:00

Dark Knight sets weekend record with $155.34 million

(Monday, July 21, 2008)

Batman has sent Spidey packing as king of Hollywood’s box-office superheroes. » Read story.

A light in the Dark

Ledger’s terrifying Joker shines in stunning Batman tale

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

It’s difficult to separate the movie from its mystique. » Read story.

REVIEW Mamma Mia!

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

As colorful as a peacock feather and just about as insubstantial, Mamma Mia! bounces along on the music of ABBA and a cast of pros who sell like there’s no tomorrow. » Read story.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

Mongol, R The early life of Genghis Khan, who rose from slavery to conquer half the world. » Read story.

REVIEW: Space Chimps

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

If you’re old enough to read this, you aren’t the target audience for Space Chimps, a movie about chimpanzees sent in search of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Chimps, from the animation studio that gave us Valiant, is one more of those cartoons parents at least won’t mind sitting through while little Miss or Mister 8-and-under chuckles at the cute talking primates. » Read story.

ON FILM Dark Knight: I’ll believe it when I see it

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

I usually don’t read other critics’ reviews of a movie until I’ve written my own — or, if I don’t plan on writing one, until after I’ve seen the film. I imagine most people who regularly review films do the same — it’s too easy to swipe (subconsciously or otherwise ) someone else’s sweet turn of phrase or penetrating insight. » Read story.

FILM CLIPS

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

At area theaters » Read story.

REVIEW The Fall

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

The Fall is filled with predictable plot turns, amateurish action sequences and long scenes of overwrought emotion that approach the point of ridiculousness. Judged merely by the script, it could pass as a student film made specifically to get back at an ex-girlfriend who recently dumped the filmmaker for one of his professors. » Read story.

Screen gems

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

Spilled Milk: Our Milk, Our Farmers, Our Arkansas will be screened at 7 p.m. July 25 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain as part of Reel Stories, a documentary film and lecture series. » Read story.

Box office

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army caught box-office heat with a $34.5 million debut, while Eddie Murphy flopped as his comedy Meet Dave opened with just $5.3 million. » Read story.

Home movies

(Friday, July 18, 2008)

Recent DVD releases » Read story.

‘Dark Knight’ comes close to high hopes of Batman fans

(Thursday, July 17, 2008)

Even under ordinary circumstances, The Dark Knight would have been one of the most hotly awaited movies of the summer blockbuster season, according to the review in Friday’s MovieStyle section. » Read story.

‘Mad Men,’ ‘Damages’ make Emmy nomination history

(Thursday, July 17, 2008)

Mad Men, AMC’s sleek drama set in the advertising world circa 1960, and FX’s legal thriller Damages made Emmy nominations history Thursday as the first basic cable programs to gain best-series nods. » Read story.

Meet Dave, but don't expect anything out of this world

(Friday, July 11, 2008)

Meet Dave. Or don’t. Eddie Murphy doesn’t particularly seem to care one way or the other. » Read story.

Buried treasure

Underground adventure’s 3-D effects elevate it above the level of theme-park ride

(Friday, July 11, 2008)

If you can see Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3-D, do it, even if you have to spend big bucks on gasoline to get to a theater that can handle the format. » Read story.

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