The "Twilight" finale and "Skyfall continue to dominate the box office on a typically slow post-Thanksgiving weekend.

Bella Swan, James Bond and Abe Lincoln have combined to lift Hollywood to record Thanksgiving revenue at the box office.

James Bond's "Skyfall" has extended its worldwide box-office rule to North America, hauling in a franchise-record $87.8 million in its first weekend at U.S. theaters.

Judy Garland's blue pinafore she wore in "The Wizard of Oz" has sold for $480,000.

Actress Ashley Judd isn't ruling out a run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Democrats have been promoting Judd, a former Kentuckian now living in Tennessee, as a challenger to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014.

His first documentary, "Meanwhile in Memphis: The Sound of a Revolution," a thematic survey of the city's modern musical underground, has been six years in the making.

Looper (R, 119 min.) Making the leap from indieland ("Brick") to commercial Hollywood, writer-director Rian Johnson delivers a stunner from start to finish — a smart, exciting time-travel action film that respects its audience, its genre and even its characters.

Resident Evil: Retribution (R, 97 min.) "Regurgitation" might be a more appropriate subtitle for this redundant fifth go-round in director Paul W.S. Anderson's video game-inspired franchise, set in a post-apocalyptic future of corporate conspiracy and zombie plague.

Shrewdly cast "Twilight" vampire Robert Pattinson is a less romantic type of bloodsucker for a less compassionate world in the latest chilly masterpiece of cold dread and collapsing reason from David Cronenberg, the cerebral yet intuitive filmmaker who after almost ...

The Amazing Spider-Man (PG-13, 136 min.) Andrew Garfield is high-school science nerd turned web-slinging superhero Peter Parker in this too-soon Marvel Comics reboot that contains little of the comic-book snap and Pop Art pop that made director Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" ...

Six free screenings of producer Peter Jackson's eagerly awaited West Memphis Three documentary, "West of Memphis," will be held in the Memphis area over the next seven weeks.

The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13, 165 min.) Staking its claim as "The Godfather" of superhero cinema, Christopher Nolan's Bat-trilogy concludes with a confused but powerful nightmare vision of stock-exchange armed invasion, villain-imposed martial law and literal underground revolt.

Brave (PG, 101 min.) Marketed as a saga of you-go-girl empowerment intended to update the tradition of the so-called "Disney princess" for the Katniss Everdeen generation, the latest Pixar release actually is a very odd and sometimes scary affirmation of ...

Ted (R, 106 min.) "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane wrote and directed this live-action fantasy about a Boston underachiever named John (Mark Wahlberg) whose lifelong companion is his foul-mouthed, pot-smoking, hooker-hiring teddy bear.

Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13, 93 min.) Lifted by a flood tide of festival awards and critical hosannas, this unexpected and unforgettable post-Katrina eco-fable — shot on location, with untrained actors, by filmmakers living "off the grid" — is ...