Entertainment
Ditching the mansion for the trailer
Filmmaker Tom Shadyac is best known for comedies such as Bruce Almighty, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor, which have filled his bank account with plenty of green. However, Shadyac, whose newest film, I AM, lands in Denver at the Landmark Chez ...
Tolerable levels of cute
We’ve all been there, that moment in time when destiny knocks on the door, and we’d rather just yell “Go away, I already have plans!” So it’s easy to identify with E.B., the drum-playing rocker in the lead role of Hop. His destiny? He has to take over for his dad as ...
A contraption, but it works
Call it strangeness on a train. The highly gimmicky, very entertaining new thriller Source Code takes place mostly on a passenger car, part of the fictional Chicago Commuter Rail line, speeding toward the Loop carrying a bomb planted by an unknown terrorist. Our ...
Netflix nabs ‘Mad Men’ rerun rights
LOS ANGELES — Netflix, in a sign of its growing importance in television, will become Don Draper's second home...
‘Divorce Court’ judge had to overcome her own marital problems
PASADENA, Calif. — She may be the presiding judge on the syndicated show "Divorce Court," but Lynn Toler had to pass more than the bar to get there...
Review: The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey
Billed as modern interpretation of a classic shamanic journey, The Portal: A Cosmic Rock Odyssey combines film, music and lighting to try and create a surreal, out-of-body, perhaps even religious experience for its audience. In the case of the audience at the Boulder...
‘Mad Men’ creator Matt Weiner agrees to new deal
LOS ANGELES — "Mad Men" creator Matt Weiner has signed a new deal to remain with the cult cable show for at least two more seasons...
Lionsgate signs Tyler Perry to a new three-year deal
LOS ANGELES — Lionsgate has renewed its movie and home entertainment agreement with its most prolific supplier, filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry...
He’s hired: Donald Trump to join ‘Fox and Friends’
WASHINGTON — The heartburn that a prospective Donald Trump presidential bid gives to other Republican candidates will now be delivered on a weekly basis...
John Hughes for kids
Released a year ago, the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie captured remarkably little of the sly charm of the Jeff Kinney books that line my son’s bookshelf. The film did, however, capture enough of the fan base to warrant a sequel. And here we are. And it’s a little ...
