entertainment - "movies"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Not many actresses have given strong, emotional performances and kicked major butt in the same film, but fortunately for fans of the "Mummy" movies, Michelle Yeoh is one.

When casting a buddy movie - even a pot-infused romp of an action comedy like 'Pineapple Express,' opening Friday - it helps to cast real buddies.

Hollywood loves a biker gang - nothing gives small-town America a shiver down its spine like a bunch of Hells Angels tooling into town on their big choppers promising mayhem and destruction.

In 'Frozen River,' actress Melissa Leo finally has a chance to play a complicated, richly drawn woman - and be the star of the movie at the same time.

When Nanette Burstein was in high school - a prep school in Buffalo - she spent a year abroad, living with a family in Spain. She was a proper little preppy when she quit the States. She had a pink Mohawk and a new view on life when she got back.

LOS ANGELES - Yeah, yeah, Jet Li's name is above the title in his latest movie. One better, Li is the title. He's the mummy in 'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,' the third in the Brendan Fraser franchise.

This week's round of new movie release information contains release dates for The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Nothing Like the Holidays, Not Easily Broken and more!

The Rhode Island International Film Festival may be a little far afield of Boston, but it always offers an impressive lineup and earns its spotlight each year. Opening on Tuesday, the six-day program this year includes 289 movies selected from 3,000 submissions - 33 feature narratives, 67 documentaries, and nearly 60 world premieres. That's a whole lotta movie.

Practically everyone has flipped channels late at night, settling on a mediocre action flick: absurd dialogue, hyper-stylized violence, aggressively cheesy synthesizer music, comically evil villains. These Grade-Z movies are made for just such occasions; mindless and filling, they are the cinematic equivalent of fast food. So what happens when Grade-A filmmakers and actors decide to pay homage to the kind ...

The second pairing of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly takes a more organic approach to comedy than 'Talladega Nights' but ultimately, delivers a far more satisfying often gut-splitting movie.