La Crosse Tribune Movie Reviews

GENEVA (AP) — Cate Blanchett and some other big-name movie stars are speaking out about the plight of refugees in a stark video that entreats viewers to imagine what they'd do if they had to flee war.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Academy Award winning director Oliver Stone will talk about his new film, "Snowden," at the Harvard Kennedy School.

TORONTO (AP) — In a carefully stage-managed press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival, Nate Parker and the cast of his Nat Turner slave revolt drama "The Birth of a Nation" argued passionately for focusing on their film and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Sully" took flight in theaters this weekend and has landed with a solid $35.5 million to take the top spot at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are sharing Emmy gold as "Saturday Night Live" hosts.

TORONTO (AP) — The lead singer and songwriter of The Tragically Hip said Friday that he will be releasing a new solo album with an accompanying graphic novel and animated film.

I feel I need to add the “It’s also very funny” to the end of every paragraph of this review so as not to scare anybody away from this wonderful little movie.

NEW YORK (AP) — The first "Avatar" sequel is still years away from hitting movie theaters, but fans of the blue-hued Na'vi can get their fix at a touring Cirque du Soleil show that James Cameron helped create — without…

TORONTO (AP) — The 41st Toronto International Film Festival got underway Thursday with Antoine Fuqua's remake of "The Magnificent Seven," an old-school Western with more modern faces.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kristen Johnson, leaning forward in a Manhattan coffee shop, isn't entirely sure what to call her film.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón is coming back to earth, and his home country, for his next film. The "Gravity" director's new project will take on a year in the life of a middle class family in Mexico…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado Springs neighborhood is swarming with crew members preparing for the filming of a new Netflix movie.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Losing thrust in both engines but still managing to land an airliner full of people in the Hudson River without the loss of a single life is plenty dramatic. But the drama in 'Sully,' the movie about…

In "Sully," Clint Eastwood's haunted and sterile docudrama of Capt. Chesley Sullenberger's 2009 landing of flight 1549 on the Hudson, Eastwood has drained away all the superficial, rah-rah heroism of Sullenberger's great feat, but he has also sucked the life…

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — As far as everyday heroes go, commercial airline pilots might be among the most unsung.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Young Frankenstein" will come alive in theaters once again on Oct. 5, with a live introduction from writer-director Mel Brooks, who will pay tribute to the classic spoof's late star Gene Wilder. The intro will be…

NEW YORK (AP) — Prophecy abounds at the Toronto International Film Festival. Pundits pronounce Oscar guarantees. Buzz, the most cherished commodity at the festival, is measured and speculated on like stock prices.

Despite widespread attention over diversity in the movie business, a new study finds that little is changing in Hollywood for women, minorities, LGBT people and others.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A new Netflix television series starring Jeff Daniels is in production in Santa Fe.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish leaders and families of some crash victims attended the premiere Monday of a divisive movie that supports a theory that the 2010 plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others was an…