Jason Statham

A big weekend for offbeat films, as studios unload a lot of limited release product they had Oscar hopes for all on the same weekend. Thus, we finally get the hyper-realistic scenes from a working class marriage melodrama “Blue Valentine,”...

"The Mechanic": The assassin drama offers a meat-and-potatoes roll for action hunk Jason Statham, but hey, it's Serious Actor Ben Foster as his murderous apprentice! Here's our critic's take. "The Rite": In retrospect, it's easy to see "Silence of the...

Box office predictions are running in the $19 million range for the new exorcism thriller “The Rite,” starring Anthony Hopkins, and the box office guru may be low-balling his $10 million forecast for “The Mechanic,” which has,...

Two new movies will compete against a royal rival this weekend. “The King’s Speech,” which just scooped up 12 Oscar nominations, is expanding its run and is expected to contend for the top box-office spot alongside a pair of new......

The Anthony Hopkins horror film "The Rite" topped the box office this weekend, but some of the best news came for lower-budget movies that benefited from Tuesday's Oscar nominations. "The King's Speech," "True Grit," "Black Swan" and "The Fighter" all.......

"The Roommate" scared up more business than "Sanctum," but there were no real winners on a sluggish Super Bowl weekend at the box office. The teen horror thriller "The Roommate" opened to a so-so $15.6 million, according to studio estimates,......

You know how on Christmas, if you've been a bad child, your big present is supposed to be a lump of coal? I've often wondered what the Valentine's Day equivalent would be: rancid chocolates? Snapshots of your loved one snuggling with someone else? Your...

“Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny…” And at about this point the gnome reciting the prologue to “Romeo and Juliet” is yanked off stage by...

Leave it to Sylvester Stallone to freshen up a familiar premise, something he does quite successfully in this hugely brawny adventure that he also directed and co-wrote. He plays the leader of a mercenary squad enlisted to put a South American dictator...

LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL The Los Angeles Film Festival strives to be both urban and urbane with its move downtown and its far-ranging program of foreign films and serious documentary fare, but take a closer look and you'll notice this......

Click here to download TV listings for the week of July 11 - 18 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here CONSOLATION: Germany takes on Uruguay in the battle for third place......

This is a longer version of my cover story in the Sunday Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. The lights were down low in Sylvester Stallone's Beverly Hills office on a recent afternoon, so it was impossible to see......