Revolution (movie)

There are monsters and vampires, science fiction, trips back and forward through time, supernatural themes and other out-of-this-world scenarios in the television pilots vying for space on the networks' fall schedules. The five major networks,...

Frankly, it sounded pretty stupid. For reasons unknown, electricity fails worldwide, sending humanity into a post-technological free-fall. Weeds grow in the Capitol (very "Logan's Run"), young women defend their families with bows and arrows (very "Hunger...

Lifetime is planning a movie on the Jodi Arias case. Watching the Arias coverage, with its many breaks, gives you a lot of time to ponder casting. In my opinion, the focus should be on the courtroom duels between Arias and prosecutor Juan Martinez....

After the coffee. Before the matzo ball soup. The Skinny: I'm in D.C. for Passover, and it snowed here. So much for seeing some cherry blossoms, lunching at an outdoor cafe near the Capitol and taking a nice long jog. Monday's headlines include a...

After the coffee. Before getting the tuxedo to the cleaners. The Skinny: I kept my tweeting to a minimum during the Oscars. Just as New Year's Eve and St. Patrick's Day are amateur night to drinkers, the Oscars is amateur night for tweeters. Monday's...

After the coffee. Before seeing who took my Grammy Award tickets. The Skinny: Hope my East Coast peeps find shelter from the snowstorm. Friday's headlines include a preview of the weekend box office, how NBC fell so fast and a look at the jockeying that...

It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...

The new movie version of "Les Misérables," which opened on Christmas, has given fans of the original stage musical a reason to revisit their old cast albums and reminisce about the Broadway show. Songwriters Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil hit...

Well, it'll be a while before we get to see the film that was voted best picture of 2012 by the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday: Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which deals with the hunt for O. bin Laden. It doesn't open in wide circulation...

'Iron Man 3' gave North Carolina's film industry a big lift in 2012. The upcoming release from Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel Studios filmed throughout North Carolina, helping to   produce a record level of production activity in the state this year. The...

It's fall, a good time for countdowns. •Countdown: 53 days till Christmas. •Countdown: 20 days till Thanksgiving. •Countdown: 14 days until I put up Christmas decorations. •Countdown: Seven columns to go. •Backward countdown:...

Jake Eberts, the Canadian independent producer and founder of Britain's Goldcrest Films, which revived the British cinema industry in the 1980s with a string of Oscar-winning movies, including "Gandhi" and "Chariots of Fire," died Thursday in Montreal. He...