Red Tails (PG-13, 125 min.) The pioneering fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen deserve a more memorable and less cornball tribute than this George Lucas production, which seems inspired as much by old war movies as by the real-life ...

Rapper turned music entrepreneur and entertainment mogul Sean Combs — perhaps still better known as “Puff Daddy” or “P. Diddy” — has signed on as an executive producer of a planned fictionalized studio remake of “Undefeated,” the made-in-Memphis football film ...

The Descendants (R, 115 min.) Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, the first film in seven years from director Alexander Payne ("Sideways") casts George Clooney as Matt King, a "haole" (white person in Hawaii) lawyer with royal Hawaiian blood ...

Paul Simon recalls his return to South Africa like a family reunion — musical brothers getting back together after decades apart. The trip last summer to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his “Graceland” album was a far more joyous occasion ...

Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director honor for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

The Adventures of Tintin (PG, 107 min.) As frenetic if hardly as entertaining as "Raiders of the Lost Ark," this "performance capture" animated film from director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson ("the two greatest storytellers of our time," according ...

Shot by Swedish journalists, long-lost footage of Angela Davis (featured in a jailhouse interview), Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver and other "revolutionary" black activists has been rescued, restored and "mixed" into a new documentary, "The Black Power Mixtape 1965-1975." The film ...

The Descendants (R, 115 min.) A certain contender for most of the major Oscars, the first film in seven years from director Alexander Payne ("Sideways") casts George Clooney as Matt King, a haole (white person in Hawaii) lawyer with royal ...

A cynic might say that Memphis is better known for random violence than organized crime. Nevertheless, "Momo: The Sam Giancana Story," a documentary about a man described as Chicago's "second most powerful mob boss" (the first was Al Capone), will ...

Hugo (PG, 127 min.) Advertised as a children's adventure, Martin Scorsese's first 3D feature might more accurately be described as a love letter to cinema, set in the city of storybook romance, Paris. Even the movie's clockwork automaton is motivated ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R, 158 min.) Director David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's phenomenally successful international best-seller is a movie of extreme length as well as unassailable technical polish and posh production values, but the gloss doesn't ...

In its 20th annual awards voting, the Southeastern Film Critics Association — an organization with members who represent electronic and print media outlets (including The Commercial Appeal) in nine states — this week named "The Descendants" the best film of ...

Arthur Christmas (PG, 100 min.) This digitally animated holiday bandwagon-jumper lacks the visual charm of the stop-motion Plasticine animation that is the signature of England's Aardman studios; otherwise, it's funny and clever and even moving, as might be expected from ...

At 9 years old, the Ross Elementary School fourth-grader has in two years gone from Internet sensation to national television celebrity.

My Week with Marilyn (R, 101 min.) Sort of like "Me and Orson Welles" but with a more curvaceous title celebrity, this impeccably produced and thoroughly entertaining backstage show-business yarn examines a few days in the presence of greatness through ...