Taylor Schilling

About eight years ago, "True Blood's" Tanya Wright was living in Los Angeles and beginning to establish herself as an in-demand character actress when she decided to play host to her little brother, who also wanted to pursue a career in show-biz. As...

Netflix appears to be firing on all cylinders in 2013, with new original content coming every other month. Hot on the heels of "Arrested Development," which returns with 15 new episodes on May 26, Netflix plans to premiere its next series, "Orange Is...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SERIES Ripper Street: Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) and the team attempt to find the culprit behind a series of cleverly...

Hollywood keeps making adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, even though they've never really burned up the box office. Maybe “The Lucky One” will be, well, the lucky one, but it's hard to imagine why. Sparks films have become their own...

The romantic-tragic approach of novelist Nicholas Sparks has fueled such stories as "The Notebook" and "Dear John," and it services Zac Efron reasonably well in this drama about a Marine who believes his life was saved during Iraq combat by his locating a...

now playing "Battleship" (PG-13). This sci-fi action movie pits a fleet of naval ships against an alien force that's attacking Earth. Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Liam Neeson, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker and Tadanobu Asano. TownMall Cinemas (12:50,...

A tragic romance is a surefire way to identify one of the many works of Nicholas Sparks. His latest movie-based-on-book endeavor titled "The Lucky One" fits easily on the list. "The Lucky One" follows the postwar struggle of veteran Marine Logan Thibault...

** (out of four) Don’t just assume “The Lucky One” is some schmaltzy, ordinary Nicholas Sparks (“The Notebook”) adaptation in which a dreamy guy (Zac Efron), who says stuff like “You should be kissed every day, every...

You don't need a message in a bottle to get the word out: Author Nicholas Sparks knows his audience. Conservative moviegoers (along with plenty of centrists and liberals) take to the latest Sparks adaptation, gratefully. They know they're not going to get...

It's probably a good thing that I don't see a lot of movies based on the books of Nicholas Sparks. He's known for super-schmaltzy romance novels that are routinely derided by critics but sell like crazy. Films based on his works include the modest hits...

Based on Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Lucky One, Zac Efron ("17 Again," "Charlie St. Cloud") stars alongside Taylor Schilling (TV's "Mercy") and Blythe Danner ("Meet the Parents" franchise) in this romantic drama directed by Academy Award®-nominated...

Nicholas Sparks writes romantic novels that often become chick flick movies. "The Notebook," "Message in a Bottle" and"Nights in Rodanthe" are films that demonstrate his formulas for depicting people in various stages of PG-13 love. "The Lucky One"is his...