La Crosse Tribune Movie Reviews

BOSTON (AP) — Actor Mark Wahlberg has ended his bid for a pardon for assaults he committed as a teenager in Massachusetts.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Kim McGuire, who played the character known as "Hatchet-Face" in the John Waters film "Cry-Baby," has died. She was 60.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Z has declared the war on drugs an "epic fail" in a short film he wrote and narrated.

TORONTO (AP) — About five years ago, screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig was on her way out of a meeting with James L. Brooks about a script she had written. Before she left, she turned around and said, "Nobody will ever…

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Actor Richard Gere has given a boost to the Salvation Army in his upstate New York hometown.

Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R)…

LONDON (AP) — The surviving Beatles will get together for the British premiere of director Ron Howard's film that documents the band's chaotic years on the road.

WAKALIGA, Uganda (AP) — Deep in a Kampala slum, young men kick each other while a stout man with a salt-and-pepper beard watches them, sometimes nodding in approval.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Twin Cities Film Festival will honor actress and Minnesota native Lea Thompson with its annual Lifetime Achievement Award.

People will have different reactions to the new "The Blair Witch Project" sequel, but one thing we all probably can agree on is this: We need to hurry up and clear-cut that haunted forest in Maryland, once and for all.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stage and screen director Jack Hofsiss, who won a Tony Award in his first outing on Broadway while helming "The Elephant Man" and kept working despite an accident that left him without the use of his…

NEW YORK (AP) — Turner networks TNT and TBS will be the exclusive basic-cable homes for all the "Star Wars" feature films, thanks to a multiyear deal with the films' studios.

NEW YORK (AP) — "Groundhog Day" is coming to Broadway. We repeat: "Groundhog Day" is coming to Broadway.

TORONTO (AP) — In between premieres of his latest film, "Nocturnal Animals," in Venice and Toronto, fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford has launched a fall collection at New York's fashion week and picked up the prestigious Golden Lion award…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia gun rights activists have filed a $12 million defamation lawsuit against Katie Couric and other makers of a documentary over an edit they say misrepresented the activists' response to a question.

iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending September 11, 2016:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele are back and steaming up the screen in the first trailer for "Fifty Shades Darker ." Universal Pictures released the promotional spot Tuesday for the sequel to "Fifty Shades of Grey."

PRAGUE (AP) — Threats by football fans to disrupt the Prague premiere of a documentary film about a Czech Republic club of mainly Romany players has forced the showing to be canceled.

TORONTO (AP) — Jonathan Demme is still infatuated with the concert film.

NEW YORK (AP) — Older people are significantly underrepresented in movies and often are the butt of ageist jokes, an analysis of top films has found.