The Rookie News

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters by Elkhart Truth movie columnist Ben Ford , the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times .

IS IT FAIR that one of Hollywood's most successful and richest young actors didn't set out to be a performer - in fact, never took an acting class - when thousands of others like him sweat auditions, pose for head shots, tweet their every move? To underscore the point: Angus T. Jones, the "half" in the No.

Nicolas Cage takes on the title role -- playing a drug- and gambling-addicted detective in post-Katrina New Orleans who's investigating the murder of five African immigrants -- in this Werner Herzog-directed crime drama inspired by the 1992 original featuring Harvey Keitel.

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters by Elkhart Truth movie columnist Ben Ford , the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times .

By Pete Misiak WXYZ-TV Entertainment Reporter - As hard as this may be to believe, there are films other than New Moon debuting this week at your local cineplex.

Show business does not have its own judicial branch empowered to imprison and, if necessary, torture people who commit unspeakable crimes against studio profits.

John Lee Hancock thought he was doing a great job ofracing througha day of shooting earlier this year on "The Blind Side,"the new film that starsSandra Bullock asLeigh Anne Tuohy,a no-nonsense Memphis supermom who makes room in her life for Michael Oher, a homeless, 350-pound African American teenager who ended up becoming the Baltimore ...

Knowing a golden character opportunity when she sees one, Sandra Bullock takes the proverbial ball and runs with Leigh Anne Tuohy, the honey blond spitfire of a well-to-do Southern wife and mother who takes in a homeless black teenager in "The Blind Side." She's an irrepressible hoot in writer-director John Lee Hancock's otherwise thoroughly ...

Michael receives his instruction from his surrogate mother Leigh Anne in John Lee Hancocka s fact-based sports drama The Blind Side.

The applause, from an audience that matters, was thunderous. Of course John Lee Hancock, the director of "The Blind Side," was pleased.

Knowing a golden character opportunity when she sees one, Sandra Bullock takes the proverbial ball and runs with Leigh Anne Tuohy, the honey blond spitfire of a well-to-do Southern wife and mother who takes in a homeless black teenager in "The Blind Side." She's an irrepressible hoot in writer-director John Lee Hancock's otherwise thoroughly ...

Knowing a golden character opportunity when she sees one, Sandra Bullock takes the proverbial ball and runs with Leigh Anne Tuohy, the honey blond spitfire of a well-to-do Southern wife and mother who takes in a homeless black teenager in "The Blind Side." She's an irrepressible hoot in writer-director John Lee Hancock's otherwise thoroughly ...

Angus T. Jones, 16, is more than a fraction in "Two and a Half Men." He has graduated from a skateboard to a car, with room to grow.

Is it fair that one of Hollywood's richest and most successful young actors didn't set out to be a performer -- in fact, never took an acting class -- when there are thousands of others like him, sweating auditions, posing for head shots, tweeting their every move? To underscore the point: Angus T. Jones, the 'half' in the No.

By TOBIAS XAVIER LOPEZ The gala billing declares: Baseball's Oldest Manager meets Baseball's Oldest Rookie.Tonight, Bobby Bragan will honor Jim 'The Rookie' Morris with Bragan's annual Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2009 Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation Gala.Bragan, who turns 92 today, managed the Fort Worth Cats at 87 to become baseball's oldest ...

Wednesday October 21 2009. Dennis Quaid has a change of heart about driving home after talking to a police officer! Having attended the premiere of the movie "One Peace at a Time", Dennis and wife Kimberly Buffington headed to Philippe's restaurant for dinner.

The amazing story behind his rise to football stardom will fill the nonfiction shelves at bookstores on Oct.

There probably is an essay to be had about how Hollywood killed the football movie.

In case you've never heard of The Alamo before, in a nutshell, Mexico wanted Texas, but so too did the white folks.

Braveheart scribe Randall Wallace has been hired to rewrite Disney'sA 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo , which is being developed for McG .