Multimillionaire Howard Hughes was one of the world’s biggest celebrities. Giant gorilla Mighty Joe Young was one of its biggest apes. Five-foot-2 Terry Moore could handle both of them.

If the actual apocalypse arrives soon, it will find “This Is the End” a hard act to follow. A rip-roaring fire-and-brimstone comedy with shocks and special effects that are more startling if not more “realistic” than those found in “serious” ...

For some moviegoers, the most anticipated sequel of the summer of 2013 is not “Iron Man 3” or “The Hangover Part III” but “Before Midnight,” the third chapter in a series that began with “Before Sunrise” in 1995 and continued ...

For one day, at least, the Memphis Redbirds are asking you to root, root, root for a home team that includes such players as Ham, Squints, Benny the Jet and Scotty Smalls.

A product of Grizzlies guard Tony Allen’s off-the-cuff eloquence, “grit and grind” has become a Memphis basketball mantra.

As a love letter from director to star, the delightful, funny, clever and wise “Frances Ha” surpasses even its obvious inspiration, Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall.”

Reading Judy Blume novels — 1970s “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret,” 1974’s “Blubber” -- has been a rite of passage for girls for decades.

Cowboys, outlaws, sidekicks, pinup girls and other familiar movie types are easy to find at the Memphis Film Festival, the region’s long-running celebration of classic cinema and vintage television. Oscar winners and nominees? They’re usually in shorter supply.

The Orpheum’s popular Summer Movie Series returns Friday with a twist — and a bit of a mission.

“Renoir,” a film inspired by the final years of the French Impressionist painter Pierre-Augustine Renoir, has been rated R for what the motion picture Classification & Ratings Administration defines as “art-related nudity.”

Some parents post their children’s piano recitals, school plays and sports accomplishments on YouTube. If you’re richer than God, however, you have access to more impressive entertainment platforms. You can produce a movie for your kid.

“At Any Price” casts Dennis Quaid as Henry Whipple, a big-business family farmer and salesman of genetically modified corn seeds. Like the stereotype of a used-car dealer, this modern farmer is so slick and insincere that he literally slicks his ...

Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are so pumped up, so anatomically inflated and unlikely that when they have a confrontation in “Fast & Furious 6,” it’s like watching a pair of unmoored Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons bump ...

Chew on this, movie lovers: The Malco Ridgeway Four is being “rebranded” as the Malco Ridgeway Cinema Grill.

Fearless and flamboyant, the late William Kendall was an outspoken champion of art cinema and gay pride at a time when both concepts were met with suspicion or even hostility by most Memphians.