La Crosse Tribune Movie Reviews

LONDON (AP) — Kenny Kenny Baker, the 3-foot 8-inch (1.1 meter) actor who played R2-D2 in the "Star Wars" films, has died. He was 81.

SEATTLE (AP) — He's notched more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, wrote the definitive guidebooks to a major North American mountain range, and at age 93, Fred Beckey is still plotting routes — though more slowly and buoyed…

What’s the old joke? A tourist asks a New York musician how to get to Carnegie Hall. The musician responds, “Practice, practice, practice.”

Ellis has decided that the best way to honor the exploits of these heroes is to not sugarcoat them or the evil they faced, and “Anthropoid” is a darker and more interesting film for it.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival is kicking off with Robert De Niro presenting Martin Scorsese's restored "Taxi Driver." The actor will also receive the festival's first lifetime achievement award at the opening night.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The writer, director, producer and star of "The Birth of a Nation" says the Sundance Institute offered him encouragement and support when he needed it most.

Give Meryl Streep her due: She's mastered drama and comedy, musicals and various accents. In her latest film, the multiple Oscar-winner has even crushed an unexpected skill — singing very poorly indeed.

Instead of taking the traditional approach of talking to friends, family members or bandmates about Zappa, the film curates exclusively from interviews Zappa gave throughout his life. In the film, as was probably true in life, Zappa gets the first…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney's first Latino princess will keep her throne: The TV series "Elena of Avalor" is getting a second-season renewal.

iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending August 7, 2016:

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It is one of Rio's most renowned favelas, the Cidade de Deus made infamous in a film that helped cement a stereotype of the other side of the "Marvelous City" that is host of the…

CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich's Jailhouse Rockers may have disbanded but their memory lives on in the ex-Illinois governor's resentencing case.

NEW YORK (AP) — You meet in a nondescript reception room in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. You're handed a form on a clipboard. Then the receptionist slips away and the doors lock — and all hell breaks loose.

BOSTON (AP) — It took a half-century for DNA sleuthing to finger Albert DeSalvo as the Boston Strangler. Now a new movie is revisiting one of America's most notorious serial killer cases and the bizarre involvement of a man who…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Will Smith is in the Middle East to promote the movie "Suicide Squad", but he says it's also a chance to counter an increasingly anti-Muslim climate surrounding the U.S. presidential race.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was the breakout star of "Suicide Squad" before the movie was even finished. Audiences were captivated by this insane villain with the high-wattage smile, baseball bat, fishnets, pigtails and a T-shirt that…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Politics were top of mind for Jamie Lee Curtis, who hosted the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual grants presentation Thursday evening at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Huddleston, a character actor best known for portraying titular roles in "The Big Lebowski" and "Santa Claus: The Movie," has died. He was 85.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Viola Davis started looking into the role of Amanda Waller, the shadowy government agent who assembles the so-called Suicide Squad in this summer's latest blockbuster, she noticed there were two different versions of the character…

NEW YORK (AP) — Clint Eastwood is stopping short of endorsing Donald Trump but says the Republican presidential candidate is "on to something."