Three very different groomsmen – a hen-pecked dentist (Ed Helms), a bad boy schoolteacher (Bradley Cooper), and a very strange child-man (Zach Galifianakis) – take their soon-to-be married friend (Justin Bartha) to Las Vegas for one last wild night. When they wake up the next morning in their $4,200 a night suite, the trio can’t [...]

According to some reports, “Terminator: Salvation” is already a box office bomb, taking in only $56 million on its opening weekend and coming, rather embarrassingly, in at the No. 2 spot right behind “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.” You probably wouldn’t think of $56 million as a bad return, until you discover [...]

The controversy surrounding “The DaVinci Code” intensified when it was announced that Dan Brown’s novel was destined for the big screen. The Catholic Church, which said the novel was “full of lies,” and Christians worldwide were the film’s greatest opponents – significant protests came from countries as diverse as Pakistan, Malawi, Kenya, Sri Lanka and [...]

Three years ago, while watching the credits roll on “X-Men: The Last Stand,” I felt a bit sad. Was this the end of a franchise? Uh, no. Not much later, the buzz started on the prequel stories. The first one I heard about was on Magneto, which is apparently still going to happen in 2011, [...]

My connection to “Star Trek” dates to 1979, when my mother, a bona fide Trekker, dragged the entire family to see the not-so-creatively named “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” I remember being completely dumbfounded by the experience, and probably would have said it was about a bald chick, something called V-Ger, and a bunch of [...]