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Sam Worthington battles monsters in the new movie Clash of the Titans. It's a remake of the 1981 flick. Film critic Kenneth Turan says the new version might be the first film to actually be made worse ...

The Treatment Kenneth Turan Elvis hosts writer-film critic Kenneth Turan to talk about his book Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told. With the creation of ...

At the peak of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences knew the name of the studio on the silver screen signaled something wonderful was about to begin. “If they would go to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenneth Turan's splendid book about Hollywood titans Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg is the first in 50 years to tell their ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. With the quality dramas that characterize the fall movie season starting ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Here is a chance to revisit some of the glories of midcentury American ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Returning to theaters after its Academy qualifying run, ‘We Need To Talk ...

All the DVDs and Blu-rays I select are favorites, but some films are more special to me than others. This week, I want to highlight two of those. Joan Micklin Silver’s marvelous 1975 “Hester Street” ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. People fall in love in every country, but nowhere is the experience put ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. By now, you know which films are up for best picture at the Academy ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Memento’ is not Christopher Nolan’s first feature -- the compelling ...