About 90 percent of the running time of "Evil Dead" consists of finding brutal and bloody ways to kill a person. The fact that Sam Raimi's remake of his own 1981 original is going out in wide release with an R is an example of just how far our society has gone off the rails and come to accept bloodletting as entertainment.
Newspaper comic strips, like most things in life, go through periods of reevaluation, reorganization and transformation. Those that run for decades will inevitably experience modifications in artistic style, character development and story lines, among other things.
"Oz the Great and Powerful" continued to live up to its name, leading the weekend box office for the second week with $46.6 million.
"Oz the Great and Powerful" is living up to its name at the box office.
An effort in Congress to eliminate funding and scrap the proposed design for a national memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower drew strong opposition Friday from the American Institute of Architects, which said lawmakers should not censor an architectural work.
Fresh from pitching against solid Atlanta hitters, Jake Westbrook faced a far trickier test: Guess how much fans paid for box seats to watch the exhibition game.
Pixar's Scottish adventure "Brave" has won the Academy Award for best animated feature film.
The Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a Missouri family after it detained a 3-year-old disabled girl at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
Walt Disney's video-game romp "Wreck-It Ralph" has won top animation honors at the Annie Awards.
