LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two ―Arsenio Hall ― to do the same for minorities.There’s no indication that’s going to change in the latest round of musical chairs involving “Tonight’’ and “Late Night.’’ All the NBC, ABC and CBS showcase jobs at 11:30 p.m. Eastern and later appear likely to remain securely in white men’s hands.Jay Leno is h

April 7, 2013

MADRID (AP) ― Spanish film director Josep Joan Bigas Luna, who discovered actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem and whose 1992 movie “Jamon, Jamon’’ launched their careers, has died in northeast Spain, aged 67.News agency Europa Press and Spanish state broadcaster RTVE, citing members of the director’s family, said Bigas Luna died early Saturday at his home in Riera de Gaia after a long battle with cancer.Bigas Luna was born in Barcelona on March 19, 1946, and became one of Spain’s most influen

April 7, 2013

Iron Man 3Opening April 25Action. Science Fiction. Adventure. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a self-described genius and billionaire, finds his world destroyed at the hands of his enemy, the Mandarin. With his suit of armor Stark must fight to protect that which he loves. In his ultimate quest to find those responsible, Stark is left with even more challenges and limitations -- he is alone, and all that he has left are his own devices. Relying solely on his ingenuity and instincts, Tony struggl

April 5, 2013

Relentless, pitiless, bloody and intense ― that’s the remake of Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead.”But is this “Evil Dead” (they dropped the “The” in the title) any good? Yes and no. It has several genuinely hair-raising moments and presents, for your edification and enjoyment, some of the most graphic horror violence ever presented on the screen.But Fede Alvarez’s homage to the original “Cabin in the Woods” tale lacks the offhanded goofiness, the brittle jokes ― visual and otherwise ― of young people,

April 5, 2013

Roger Ebert, the most famous and popular film reviewer of his time who became the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded America's most influential thumb, died Thursday. He was 70.Ebert, who had been a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, his office said. Only a day earlier, he announced on his blog that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence

April 5, 2013

Iron Man 3Opening April 25Action. Science Fiction. Adventure. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), a self-described genius and billionaire, finds his world destroyed at the hands of his enemy, the Mandarin. With his suit of armor Stark must fight to protect his world. In his ultimate quest to find those responsible for destroying his world, Stark is left with even more challenges and limitations -- he is alone, and all that he has left are his own devices. Relying solely on his ingenuity and instinct

March 29, 2013

Max Irons and Jake Abel are chasing each other up and down a hallway at the Ritz-Carlton while Stephenie Meyer looks on with a maternal smile.They’re blowing off steam after a solid block of media appearances to promote their new film, “The Host,” an adaptation of Meyer’s 2008 best-seller. The film, Meyer’s follow-up to the blockbuster “Twilight series,” opens Friday.The actors ― either of whom could give Robert Pattinson a run for his money as a movie heartthrob ― form two sides of a very pecul

March 29, 2013

The South Korean film “Jiseul” depicting the 1948 Jeju Massacre sold 42,300 tickets as of Thursday, an unexpected feat for the small-budget independent film.The black-and-white movie features some 120 people who try to escape from the soldiers ordered by the Korean government to kill every Jeju villager living beyond 5 kilometers of the coast. The movie title was named after “jiseul,” which means “potato” in Jeju dialect. Jiseul was a staple dish for refugees in the film. “’Jiseul’ deserves prai

March 28, 2013

Long before Jung Woo-sung and Gao Yuanyuan’s romance “A Good Rain Knows” (2009), there was Kim Jin-kyu and Lucilla Yu Ming’s “Love with an Alien” (1957).The first Korea-Hong Kong joint production film has been rediscovered and its digitized version will be screened for the first time in Seoul next month. Co-directed by Korean director Jeon Chang-geun and Shanghai-born, Hong Kong-based director Tu Gwang-qi, “Love with an Alien” is also the oldest surviving color feature film archived in Korea. Th

March 27, 2013

Robert Downey Jr., the hero of the “Iron Man” film series, is scheduled to visit South Korea in April to promote the latest edition of the Marvel Comics piece.The Hollywood actor will arrive here on April 3 for an “Iron Man 3” press conference the following day, according to Sony Pictures Korea, the local distributor of the superhero film.Downey Jr.’s visit, the first leg of his global promotion tour, comes in line with the world premier of the movie in South Korea scheduled for April 25, a week

March 26, 2013

Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.A musem spokeswoman says the ``Moonrise Kingdom'' star presented her one-person piece called ``The Maybe'' on Saturday.In ``The Maybe,'' Swinton lies sleeping in a glass box for the day. The exhibit will move locations within the museum every time Swinton performs.There is no published schedule for the piece, which will occur about a half dozen more times through the end of the year.Swinton first perf

March 24, 2013

NorigaeOpening April 18Drama. Directed by Choi Seung-ho. The beautiful young actress Jung Ji-hae (Min Ji-hyeon) dies and the media bashes the sexual bribery rampant in the entertainment industry. With the victim dead, the accused are the only ones left in court, rendering the trial useless. The young actress was taken advantage of by a film director and producer who is successful in the entertainment business. As he is an important man in the industry, people decline to testify in court. Lee Jan

March 22, 2013

LOS ANGELES ― There’s a notable moment in “Olympus Has Fallen,” director Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller: a slow-motion shot of a desecrated American flag discarded from atop the White House by North Korean terrorists as dirge-like music plays in the background.It’s the type of scene ― bold to his fans, cringe-worthy to his critics ― that Fuqua has used in almost all of his films.“I wanted to create an exciting movie, but give it these small moments of truth,” the director said, noting that he s

March 22, 2013