Liam Aiken

America's most-watched network, CBS, revealed its plans for the 2011-12 season Wednesday, introducing five news series and moving "CSI" and "The Good Wife" to new nights. "CSI" will move to 9 p.m. Wednesdays, while "The Good Wife" will air at 8 p.m....

NEW YORK — CBS announced today its new 2011-2012 primetime schedule, ordering five new series and making key time-period moves for CSI and THE GOOD WIFE to strengthen its already top-rated primetime lineup.  CBS will, once again, finish the season...

Friday December 25, 1998      Given that Hollywood thinks a big-screen version of "McHale's Navy" is a sure-fire idea for a feature film, it's not surprising that when a genuinely shrewd notion--like the one for "Stepmom"--appears, no one knows quite...

Friday May 5, 2000      Hollywood movies about Africa are available in both high- and low-culture varieties, and its refined, literary title alone signals that "I Dreamed of Africa" does not want to make common cause with the likes of "Africa Screams,"...

Friday May 12, 2000      From "The Red Shoes" to "The Turning Point," dramatic films about the ballet world have begged the question: How is it that such a serious and disciplined performing art attracts such silly and chaotic people?      The callow...

Friday October 15, 1999      Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...

Friday February 16, 2001      "Sweet November" teams Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron in a glossy, all-stops-out love story that you can't imagine captivating anyone beyond teenage girls and die-hard romantics--which admittedly could add up to lots of...

It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...

If a boy who really wants a dog doesn't get one before he turns 13, his parents are never going to get him one. I have no data, government-sponsored or otherwise, that backs me on this. It just seems to work out that way. The kids stop wanting dogs...

Half a century ago, James Stewart, at that point the most beloved of American leading men, decided it was time for something completely different. In a series of bitter, disturbing, early-1950s westerns directed by Anthony Mann--"Winchester '73," "The...

The opening scenes of "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" are so darkly exhilarating, so lugubriously inventive and so wittily, swooningly macabre that my first reaction, as someone who cheers at even the most tenuous allusion to author...

4 stars (out of 4) Dear reader, if you've come here to read the scandalous scribblings of a disgruntled critic--made sour by endless hours stewing in a dark screening room--you've come to the wrong place. If, however, you've come here to discover how...