entertainment - "movies"

Some movies are polite enough to save their outtakes for the closing credits. Others wait for the DVD release. 'The Love Guru' doesn't have that kind of patience. It's a pitiful assortment of bad ideas and gags that never work; I don't know what else to call a movie that asks us to find Jessica Alba credible not only as ...

1. 'Los Olvidados.' Luis Buñuel's film is a searing indictment of urban conditions-but also a dark fable.

Early in the new 'Indiana Jones' sequel, our creaky, 65-year-old hero stumbles onto a nuclear test site, and the warning siren is blaring. Panicked, surrounded by Potemkin houses, he folds himself inside the lead-lined cavity of a refrigerator. Kaboom: the blast sends Indy hurtling across the New Mexico desert, a mushroom cloud rising behind him. He lands and, logic be damned, tumbles out unscathed. The franchise, though, will never recover.

Ever since Will Smith starred in the apocalyptic flick 'Independence Day' in 1996, the Fourth of July has become synonymous with the actor. No less than four of Smith's movies have opened on that holiday weekend.

Reviews from the new york Daily News archives of 'Independence Day,' 'Men in Black,' and 'Wild, Wild West,' movies which were all released on the Fourth of July weekend.

Back in the mid-1970s, if you'd tapped one of the directors of the New German Cinema to still be around in 30 years, odds are you wouldn't have bet on Werner Herzog. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was cranking out four movies a year and Wim Wenders was gathering strength, but the former worked himself to an early death in 1982, and ...