Stephen Graham

The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...

Before you watch HBO's new miniseries "Parade's End," here's a little advice. Close your eyes and imagine Benedict Cumberbatch's icy hot "Sherlock" and all the good folks at "Downton Abbey." Now picture them disintegrating, down to the molecular level....

What's in a name? If you're a Chicagoan and your surname is Capone, everything. There is perhaps no more notorious name associated with the city (except perhaps Gacy, or for a time, Bartman). Growing up, Deirdre Marie Capone lived what she calls a "shame-...

Terence Winter wound the spring tight in Season 3 of Boardwalk Empire, each violent twist seeing a piece of Nucky Thompson’s East Coast criminal syndicate fall away and leaving the Atlantic City boss seemingly alone, friendless and on the lam from...

In spite of its tendency to be rendered down to facile, generally wrong cartoons to protect children’s and patriots’ delicate sensibilities, history poses a filthy canvas. Those who choose to paint on it can hew to its boring conventions, as...

"Season of the Witch" is an ugly, ugly film where Nicolas Cage helps escort a suspected witch to an unfair trial in a plague-ravaged Europe.   Everything about the film is unpleasant; I only came out of the film with a laundry list of complaints. In...

One of the things that's really working for me on "Boardwalk Empire" is the fact that the show is so fearless about showing people in their most private of moments. Aside from a couple of big mob moments in Sunday......

Nicolas Cage flashes those pearly whites, chews some striking Austrian, Hungarian and Croatian scenery and collects another check for “Season of the Witch,” the latest in a long, almost uninterrupted run of junk movies that are beneath an...

Richard Winters of the "Band of Brothers" WWII soldiers, a.k.a. Maj. Dick Winters, died last week at 92. Richard Winters was among the 101st Airborne Division Easy Company soldiers who inspired the book and miniseries "Band of Brothers."...

In the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., HBO and executive producers Terence Winter ("The Sopranos") and Martin Scorsese have brought a 300-foot section of the Atlantic City (N.J.) Boardwalk, circa 1920, back to three-dimensional life, for the...