Movies

Movies opening this week

9 Feb 2012

Opening FRIDAY"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" (PG): In this sequel to 2008's "Journey to the Center of the Earth," young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a distress call from a remote island and finds himself on a new adventure in a strange land.

5 movies whose titles tell you everything

8 Feb 2012

Samuel L. Jackson is shown in a scene from “Snakes on a Plane.� / New Line Pictures file LOS ANGELES — Some movie titles are wordy and complicated (“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan�) or generically forgettable (“Someone Like You�).

Movieguide: ‘Conservative’ movies make more money than ‘liberal’ ones

8 Feb 2012

Being a liberal or a conservative doesn’t only matter in politics — it matters in the box office, too. Movieguide, the Christian family guide to movies and entertainment, did a report showing that conservative movies make more money than liberal ones.