La Crosse Tribune Movie Reviews

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Robert De Niro is conjuring the legacy — and the stand-up jokes — of Borscht Belt comedians like Rodney Dangerfield and Henny Youngman while praising the natural beauty of New York's Catskills region.

NEW YORK (AP) — As Hollywood girds for a low-key Fourth of July box office weekend and watches its summer season dip 15 percent below last year's, an even more worrisome trend has taken shape: Moviegoers are growing pickier.

NEW YORK (AP) — Film and TV studio Lions Gate is buying cable channel operator Starz in a deal worth $4.4 billion.

CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — The owner of a California movie theater is apologizing after a trailer for an R-rated upcoming Seth Rogen comedy was shown ahead of a screening of Disney's "Finding Dory."

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Netflix plans to expand its Asian offerings to subscribers around the world by tapping more creators in the region, including "Snowpiercer" director Bong Joon-ho, its chiefs said Thursday.

For Red Sky Warning’s Stacy Hanson, there’s really only one problem with “The Distance Within,” the band’s first full-length album. It’s so good that it puts the band’s previously released EP to shame.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization.

Tarzan has been dusted off, his abs polished and his vocabulary spruced up in David Yates' handsome but altogether pointless "The Legend of Tarzan," a chest-thumping resurrection of the Ape Man that fails to find any reason for the iconic…

NEW YORK (AP) — Owen Suskind had largely retreated into silence in the years after his autism began to manifest, around age 3. Three painfully mute years later, and after countless rapt hours spent watching Disney animated movies, a word…

NEW YORK (AP) — Three men were arrested Tuesday on charges that they cheated investors who thought they were contributing over $12 million to produce major films, only to discover their money went to other projects and to pay personal…

There's a secret about children that Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison and Roald Dahl have always known — that no matter how innocent, kids are as capable of understanding darkness as adults, and sometimes even more so. It's not that it's…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tarzan may be among America's classic fictional characters, but he's not beyond reproach.

NEW YORK (AP) — The musical stage adaptation of the 1997 animated musical film "Anastasia" will land on Broadway starring Christy Altomare, Derek Klena, John Bolton and Caroline O'Connor.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before moviegoers return to Pandora, they'll be able visit the fantastical alien world from "Avatar" on their smartphones.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Finding Dory" topped the weekend North American box office for the second straight week, drowning the underperforming "Independence Day: Resurgence."

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — A tearjerker about a family dealing with a mother's death to cancer has won top honors at the Nantucket Film Festival .

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A woman has pleaded not guilty to setting fire to an Albuquerque motel featured in the 2007 movie "No Country for Old Men."

NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall will host a benefit screening this fall of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" with some special guests — author J.K. Rowling, actor Eddie Redmayne and other cast members from the film.

NEW YORK (AP) — The tidal wave of "Finding Dory" overwhelmed the sputtering sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence," whose weekend debut was drowned out by the popular Pixar release in North American theaters.

In a June 22 review of the film "Swiss Army Man," The Associated Press misspelled the name of one of the directors. The correct spelling is Daniel Kwan.