La Crosse Tribune Movie Reviews

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At long last, it seems Hollywood has pushed the reset button on its approach to video game adaptations.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even with its star-studded cast of Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain, "The Huntsman: Winter's War" proved to be no competition for the CGI majesty of "The Jungle Book," which easily topped the…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor Ryan Reynolds is backing a Salt Lake City movie theater in hot water with Utah liquor authorities for serving drinks during a screening of his movie "Deadpool."

ATLANTA (AP) — Andra Day wants to inspire people to rise up while drinking a Coke.

NEW YORK (AP) — The opening seconds of the trailer for "The First Monday in May," the new documentary about the dizzyingly star-studded Met Gala, show pop star Rihanna tossing her fashionable head in slo-mo as the red-carpet cameras click…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Jungle Book" remained king of the box office in its second weekend in theaters, beating new opener "The Huntsman: Winter's War" by around $40 million, according to comScore estimates Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Douglas paid simple homage to Prince at the Tribeca Film Festival with his attire: a matching purple shirt and pullover V-neck sweater.

HENDERSON, Texas (AP) — A former East Texas mortician whose murder case inspired the movie "Bernie" is headed back to prison.

DALLAS (AP) — A funeral director in small-town East Texas befriends a widow 40 years his senior at her husband's funeral, spends her money freely, then in 1996 shoots her and hides her body in a freezer for nine months.

HENDERSON, Texas (AP) — An East Texas jury deliberating whether an ex-mortician convicted in the 1996 fatal shooting of a wealthy widow must return to prison has sent a note asking for records.

NEW YORK (AP) — Slight, soft-spoken and just 5-foot-2, Prince improbably cut an imposing figure.

NEW YORK (AP) — Walking through most doors at the Tribeca Film Festival means taking a seat in a theater full of chattering moviegoers. But there are also darkened, cloth-wrapped chambers — like old carnival booths promising never-before-seen wonders —…

NEW YORK (AP) — You talkin' to me? Sorry, not this time.

NEW YORK (AP) — Demetri Martin's feature film debut "Dean," the police militarization documentary "Do Not Resist" and the Palestinian hip-hop drama "Junction 48" took top honors at the 15th Tribeca Film Festival.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At around 6:30 a.m. on December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley delivered a hand-written note to a guard at the northwest gate of the White House requesting a meeting with President Richard Nixon. In the note scribbled…

PARIS (AP) — A few weeks before the start of the Cannes Film Festival, French authorities have simulated a bloody attack on the showbiz gala, one of several such exercises in the wake of the March 22 attacks in Brussels.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — Some neighborly hospitality has earned one of Mark Wahlberg's biggest fans a chance to meet the actor and an invite to the premiere of his new movie.

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine has banned all movies filmed in Russia after 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula.

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…

This we know: On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley showed up bright and early at the White House gates, delivering a barely legible note he'd scrawled on American Airlines stationery to President Richard Nixon. He said he'd love to come…