It’s big, loud, dumb and sloppy. It’s top-heavy with clichés and powered by that shopworn superior-alien-force-attacks-underdog-Earthlings scenario. But Battleship, in due course, wins the fight to deliver … Continue reading →

MOSCOW — Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the … Continue reading →

Here’s the problem with science fiction video games: At some point, you know you’re going to run into some alien race that wants to crush humanity. From “Halo” … Continue reading →

Pick a corner, any corner. They’re all good for an old-fashioned stake out. Now, try not to appear too conspicuous. Take in a few exhibit cases in … Continue reading →

Life is easy for no one at a decrepit orphanage in hardscrabble south Georgia during the Depression. For a dreamy, strange child like Pip Tattnal, who suffers migraine headaches, can’t stand the smell of gardenias, tells tales of the English Civil War and is possibly autistic (“Had he been born some seventy years later, even an orphan boy with oddities of memory and behavior might have been diagnosed and his syndrome named.”), life at the rundown cotton farm that passes for a charitable institution is nearly unbearable. Continue reading →