A.A. Milne

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The boy wizard has vanquished the dark knight and a band of pirates with a record-setting magic act at both the domestic and international box office. Warner Bros. estimates that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2"...

The Three Musketeers in 2-D and 3-D Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson are the titular trio, made a quartet by the addition of the hot-headed D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) and facing off against baddies played by Christoph Waltz and Orlando...

CAPTAIN AMERICAN: THE FIRST AVENGER (2011) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Joe Johnston Starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Ken Choi, Samuel L....

“Winnie the Pooh,” Disney’s latest film revival of A.A. Milne’s “willy, nilly, silly old bear,” is longer on charm than it is on laughs. Or length. But it’s a treat for children making their first trek to the...

Watching A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh characters sing through their movies or romp through the Disney parks, it's easy to forget that the original books have a less boisterous attitude. So the children's play "The House at Pooh Corner," adapted by Bettye...

Watching the Disney-fied version of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh characters sing through their movies or romp through the theme parks, it’s easy to forget that the original books have a less boisterous attitude. So the children’s play &#...

April 16, 1961: President Kennedy nominates Cecil F. Poole (d. 1997) as U.S. attorney for the Northern District California. He was the first African American U.S. attorney in the Continental U.S., the first black federal judge in Northern California and.....

A new survey says Americans' favorite place to read is in bed....

We keep a running in-house tally of what's opening and when on the cinema scene, and a few times a year, I just dump the dates I have out on the blog here to give you an idea of what's opening, what it's about, and when. As May 6 is the more or less &#...

One of the few books Carolyn Kellogg's mom kept around was T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats."...

Dates are changing, studios are firming up release plans, figuring out what will actually be finished in time for this or that target date, in some cases. Films will be picked up at Sundance and find their way into theaters. Documentaries will find a...

A valuable collection of children's literature, including Alice's own copy of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There," a first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Beatrix Potter's personal copy of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" will......